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  • Unfortunate

    Unfortunate

    • Discovery of fake medication worth N1 trillion is a clarion call to monitor importation.

    What is happening? This question should be asked after the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC), last month revealed that about 87 truckloads of banned, expired or substandard medications were recovered from markets in Onitsha, Anambra State, Aba, Abia State, and Idumota, in Lagos. The only way to describe those who trade in such drugs is that they are merchants of death, and should be treated as such.

    We commend the courage of the director-general of the agency, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, who refused to be cowed by the powerful dealers in such dangerous vaccines, pills and other medications, and were sending her death threats as indeed they did to one of her predecessors, Professor Dora Akunyili.

    We are aghast that her directive that the markets be shut for a period generated so much  controversy, that soon took  ethnic and political dimensions, even when it was clear that those who had died or are indeed in the throes of death are not from any particular part of the country.

    Mrs. Adeyeye deserves to be fully protected and assisted in discharging this very important and dangerous responsibility.

    One other matter that has provoked public debate is the mention of the United States Aid for International Development USAID), as one of the major sources of the drugs. What could not be ascertained immediately is whether the authorities of the charity and development agency knew anything about the export of the consignments into the country, in view of the allegation by United States Congressman Scott Perry that USAID had been involved in funding terrorist organisations in Nigeria, under the cover of supporting development efforts.

    While that nexus is yet to be supported by concrete evidence, the fact that much of the drugs discovered, such as Tramadol, Diiazepam, Rohypnol and Nitrazepam are linked to criminals, has raised more eyebrows. This calls for intensive investigation by the Office of the National Security Adviser.

    The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, had earlier raised the alarm that terror organisations in the country are being funded from outside and solicited the support of international organisations in exposing the financiers.

    We expect that the three arms of government would cooperate in saving the country from the menace. NAFDAC should not relent in its efforts to sanitise the sector, and deserves more support from the Federal Ministry of Health, and collaboration with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), if we are to rid the country of criminals importing and distributing the drugs.

    We need to know the cartel behind importation of the fake drugs, the supply chain and those who may be aiding them in the Customs and Immigration. Unless we get to the root of the matter, this N1 trillion illicit activity is unlikely to stop anytime soon.

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    The authorities should also ensure that we step up budgetary allocation to the health sector and monitor the expenditure in view of our hitherto dependence on USAID and similar international agencies. If we did not know the danger in such dependence, policies introduced by the US President Donald Trump have opened our eyes to this reality.

    While no country is an island to itself, Nigeria has enough natural resources to cater for the needs of her people. Things like vaccines, paediatric and geriatric care medicines, as well as those meant for treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) should not be allowed into the country by enemies of the state who are only interested in profit. The relevant laws should be reviewed to enable those found behind the deadly trade face tougher penalties.

    While the death penalty being canvassed by some may be extreme,

    long years behind bars should be considered, and where the death of anyone is traced to the use of expired or substandard medications, security agents should fish out the culprits and charge them for murder.

    It is shameful that life expectancy in Nigeria in 2023 was put at 61 years, and the average in Africa was 63 years. Algeria and Mauritius led the way with 77 and 76 years, respectively. Nigeria, with the human and material resources available in all sectors should be leading Africa in human development index. It is not too late to wake up and ensure that Africa is no longer a consumer of products rejected in the West as is the case now.

     The National Assembly should not sit by, limiting itself to lawmaking. As it oversights ministries and agencies of government, in addition to holding the power of the purse, it should restructure its activities, with a view to checking criminal tendencies in the public and private sectors.

    It is time to do the needful in ensuring that Nigerians do not die needlessly as the younger ones continue to decry the situation in their country, with many voting with their feet.

  • Police to Melaye: your allegation is mischievous, unfortunate

    THE Police yesterday described as unfortunate, mischievous and outright falsehood the claims by Senator Dino Melaye that the Inspector-General (IG) Ibrahim Idris planned to arrest and inject him to death.

    Melaye had raised alarm through his official social media pages that the police had deployed personnel to assassinate him.

    He also mentioned the alleged redeployment of the Police Commissioner in Kogi State as part of the plot to carry out the act.

    But the police rose to defend the IG Idris yesterday, denying that he ordered personnel to arrest and inject Kogi West senator.

    In the reaction, Force spokesman Jimoh Moshood, an acting Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), described Melaye’s claims as untrue, ridiculous, mischievous and unfortunate.

    The statement reads: “The Force is categorically stating that the statement is mischievous, malicious, capable of misleading the public and laughable. There was no such order from the Inspector-General of Police or any plan by the Force to arrest Melaye and inject him to death, but if the senator knows he had committed any crime or he is aware of his involvement in any crime, he should come out and confess and face the legal consequences instead of whipping up sentiments to distract the public.

    “The Force sees such defamatory, mischievous, malicious and reckless statement by Melaye as untrue, ridiculous, mischievous and unfortunate.”

    On the implication of the statement, the police said: “Melaye is hereby called upon to know that his statement constitutes a criminal defamatory offence, hate speech and hateful conduct.

    “He should, however, as a lawmaker be law-abiding and desist from un-senatorial and lawless utterances that cannot be substantiated with facts.”

  • Taraba’s placing is unfortunate-Nduka

    Taraba’s placing is unfortunate-Nduka

    FC Taraba chief coach,  Nduka Ndubuisi has described his team position in the league as unfortunate and pathetic, attributing it to the error of the first stanza.       In a chat with Sportinglife , the former Heartland of Owerri Technical Adviser said he came to the team on a rescue mission and, will not lose hope until the last match of the season.

    “The team will fight till the last match of the season.My boys are good but lack confidence as a result of the position in the league and if you made mistake from the onset, it becomes difficult to correct”.

    “It is not impossible for the team to escape relegation if we win our remaining matches both home and away, and any team that underrate us will be surprised. You know it is difficult to fight a man who is already on the ground because he knows he is down already, and will not fear to fall,” he said

    “When I came in, I first restored their confidence and made them to believe that they are the best, an ingrident which was lacking in the first stanza. But with the coming of a new Chairman, things improved tremendously. If we go down to the lower league, I can assure you we will be back the next season with the hope that the boys will remain in tact,”  Nduka concluded.

  • Filani: Attack on Ekiti judge unfortunate

    Filani: Attack on Ekiti judge unfortunate

    Chief Ishola Filani is the Southwest Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)Caretaker Committee Chairman. In this interview with Assistant Editor GBADE OGUNWALE, the lawyer and politician bares his mind on the crisis in Ekiti State and the party’s plan for next year’s elections in the zone. 

    What is your reaction to the crisis in Ekiti State, especially the disruption of court processes and attack on judges?

    There are so many versions that we hear, But, I want to say that, from all the investigations carried out, the governor-elect, Ayo Fayose, did not assault or abuse any judge. Neither did he at any time instigate anybody to assault any judge. You see, it is very unfortunate that this kind of situation is happening in Ekiti now that we want to swear in the governor-elect. One thing we have to understand is that many of us, who are PDP officials and  leaders, are also lawyers. As far as we are concerned, we would not allow our profession to be put in disrepute. I know people like myself, people like Toyin Olofintunyi, people like Anisulowo and the former Attorney-General, all of us are members of the PDP and we are lawyers. We have the highest regard for the judiciary. Apart from that, most of the leaders of the PDP in EKiti State are responsible human beings, who will not allow that  kind of thing to happen. It is wrong for anybody to have a feeling that the alleged assault on the judge in Ekiti State was instigated by Fayose or any of the party leaders. It was not the PDP or Fayose who organised any assault or any problem in the premises of the High Court.

    Justice Adaramola said he told Fayose to talk to his rowdy supporters, who were disturbing the proceedings …

    I am not looking at this thing from the point of view of how the thing happened and who the thing happened in his presence. You were not there. I was not there. So, whatever we are saying about this matter is pure hearsay.

    Does that mean we cannot rely on the judge’s accounts?

    I am not saying that the judge is lying. What I am saying is that it was not the intention of any leader of the PDP, whether Fayose or any of us. It was an incident and there were thugs. Anytime anybody is going to any tribunal, whether the APC or the PDP, thugs will follow their leaders and in the process, the minutest provocation can lead to anything. So, we are talking of a mob action here. I want to disabuse your mind and the minds of the public that what happened was a mob action. Fayose did not instigate anybody, Fayose did not slap anybody, Fayose did not direct anybody to be assaulted from all the investigations that we have had in this matter. And that is why I said many leaders who are lawyers were at the court to represent the PDP, lawyers were there to represent the APC and therefore, it is a very unfortunate incident. But, for anybody to ascribe it to the governor-elect or any of the PDP leaders being responsible, I want to say categorically that no PDP leader, not to talk of our newly elected governor, directed or in any way had anything to do with the mob action of that day. Thugs follow political leaders all over the place.

    Are you being fair to the judge that was attacked?

    There are two issues: the attack on the judge and who attacked the judge. There are two different things.

    What sanction would you prescribe for those who would be found culpable of the attack after the investigation?

    Whosoever is found culpable of attacking the judge, whether in the APC or in the PDP, must be sanctioned. Don’t let us talk about the PDP alone because it was not only the PDP that was there. The case was between the PDP and the APC. It was not as if the PDP went to the court premises alone. The fact that the governor elect was there does not mean that the governor elect or any PDP member is responsible for the assault. The assault is regrettable. I am a senior lawyer, some forty years old at the bar and I would not sit down to see any member of the bar or bench assaulted. What we are saying is that here is a situation where there is a case between two parties and representatives of both parties at the court premises.

    Where it is proved that ABCD are the perpetrators, they should be sanctioned. But it is very unfortunate and I am saying it with every sense of responsibility that all of us, both the PDP and the APC were present at the court that day. It was not only the PDP that was present at the court that day.

    The leadership of the APC has condemned the attack. Why is the PDP not condemning it?

    Do you think any reasonable person will say assaulting a judge is reasonable? Our party has condemned the hooliganism. Is Olisa Metuh’s statement tantamount to saying that we did not say anything. You people are just looking for every opportunity to hang this on PDP. It is impossible to say it is the PDP that is responsible because it was not only PDP that was present at the court.

    Lagos lawyer Femi Falana has expressed the fear that a section of the elite in EKiti might go on exile, if Fayose is sworn in, for fear of being attacked…

    Because there is an a incident in the court, the elite in Ekiti want to leave Ekiti? Let me tell you one thing, somebody who you don’t like, there is nothing he will say that will be good to your hearing. How do you relate that to when Fayose becomes governor? I am trying to be objective as far as this matter is concerned, at forty years old at the bar, the bar is my primary home, law is my profession but that will not close my eyes to objectivity.

    On October 16, Fayose will be sworn in as the governor. What advice would you give to him as an elder in the party?

    Whatever advice I have, I am not going to start advising him on the pages of  newspapers. I have access to him  and as a party leader among party leaders, we all have  access to him. Whatever advice we want to give him, will not start from now, we  have been advising him and he has been adhering to the advice.

    What is the situation with the PDP in the Southwest?

    Everything is normal and we are preparing for our congress which we have not been able to hold for some time now. The congress is coming up this Saturday in Ibadan.

    The Ekiti PDP has said its members would not be part of the congress…

    They never said so. The congress is coming up in Ibadan and there is no protest against that by anybody. All is well in the southwest PDP.

    How far do you think the PDP can go in the Southwest in next year’s elections?

    Of course, we are going to go far in 2015. The caretaker committee, which I am heading, all we have been able to do in the past one year is to bring all our people together. Even those who had cause to leave the party, we have brought them back. Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State was a member of the party and he has come back. Gbenga Daniel is also back. We have brought back all the people that left and that is because we are preparing hard to ensure that come 2015, President Goodluck Jonathan is re-elected for the second term. We are doing this because our President has done a lot of turn over for good in this country. Look at the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, it is under repairs, look at the Oyo-Ibadan road, look at the ports, look at the airports, look at he appointment of our people into various positions in government, look at what has been done for women, for education; about 22 universities were created, one is in the Southwest with two campuses in Oye and Ikole Ekiti.

  • The unfortunate Kaduna twin bomb attacks

    The unfortunate Kaduna twin bomb attacks

    The twin attack on the two prominent Nigerians which took place in Kaduna could be described as dangerous, callous and unfortunate to the peaceful and cooperate existence of this country.

    The attempt on the lives of the two highly respected Nigerians who are revered in different parts of this country for political and religious affiliations, shows those desperados of this dastardly act are out to throw this country into political and religious crises, which would not augur well for the peaceful co-existence of this country.

    Both Sheik Dahiru Bauchi and Gen. Mohammed Buhari have contributed to the development of this country in their chosen fields, hence their being accorded esteemed respect across the country.

    The activities of those responsible for the twin attack did not take into cognisance the great implication of what they intend to do the collective interest of the country, which would have a great impact on the stability of this country.

    We must appreciate that God in his infinity mercy did allow this unpatriotic persons to achieve this myopic and undesirable desire of plunging this country into another mayhem, which no responsible Nigerian will support.

    We should continue to be vigilant in our daily activities to stem the ugly trend we are witnessing at this critical period of our nation’s history, that has never been seen, not even during the civil war that took place in the 60s.

    No sane Nigerian would support these dastardly acts of spilling blood of innocent Nigerians who are already impoverished going about securing their day-to-day means of livelihood.

    We pray that those who lost their lives in the Kaduna twin blast would have peace of grave and God would console their families, while also praying for those injured to recover quickly.

    The government should not rest from its responsibilities by assuring the citizens of providing security to all. Nigerians should report any form of suspicious movement within their environments.

    Nigeria will surely overcome such agonising period she finds herself and

    It will continue to remain steadfast in loving one another.

    By Bala Nayashi

    Lokoja, Kogi State.

  • Fasehun’s unfortunate outburst

    SIR:  The statement credited to Dr. Fredrick Fasehun that the Fashola administration is exploiting Lagosians is not only ludicrous but also the best advertisement for the politics of the highest bidder which he has been known for.

    It is a pity that Fasheun is resorting to subterfuge and pretensions for the common man to further the contract he has for PDP. It is a pity that he is still playing okada politics when Lagosians have moved on with the laudable positive impacts okada restriction in some major highways has wrought, in the area of reduction of crime and accidents. Perhaps, Fasheun in his mischief, does not know that whereas, the PDP government he works for outrightly banned okada in Abuja and more than 15 states they control, thereby pushing them to Lagos, the Lagos State government has been accommodating enough to limit them to inner city roads and off major highways.

    It is apparent that Fasehun’s primary focus these days is to find fault with anything APC to please his paymasters in PDP. We wonder why Fasheun is not seeing anything wrong with the bizarre depletion of national resources through stealing and looting; why he is not seeing the impunity and wanton aggression being laundered all over Nigeria by the PDP and the Jonathan government.

    Is his deafness to these borne by his desire to see his master conquer all the available spaces and lease some to people like him to exploit?

    We wonder why Fasheun sees everything wrong with the APC but never sees anything wrong with the PDP government both in the states and the centre. We wonder why he is not concerned about the level of poverty in Nigeria, which has reached a critical stage, unemployment that has reached a deadly level.

    We wonder why Fasheun has not weighed in on the concern for insecurity, infrastructural decay that has been the cornerstone of the PDP misrule for the past 15 years. Fasheun cannot see that all federal roads in Lagos are death traps, redeemed only by the intervention of the Fashola government, while he will cry blue murder that the road to his toilet is not being built by the APC. This is sheer hypocrisy, informed by Fasheun’s self interest, which is today catered for by the rouge PDP government.

    Lagosians know his antics and those of his paymasters. They will not have anything against him if he comes out in his real colours as one of the footsoldiers of the PDP in its desperate bid to ward off rustication after 16 years of total wreckage. Lagos has moved on and will never ever regress to the dungeon from where the APC has rescued it in 16 years of result oriented leadership.

     

    • Joe Igbokwe.

    Publicity Secretary,

    Lagos APC

     

  • Edo: Job seekers’ death unfortunate

    Edo: Job seekers’ death unfortunate

    THE Edo State Government yesterday mourned the victims of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) recruitment.

    While describing it as sad, unfortunate and an embarrassment to the world, the state government sympathised with the victims’ families.

    The Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere, told reporters in Benin City that “two weeks ago, I represented Comrade Adams Oshiomhole at the meeting of the Forum of Progressive Governors where we discussed this issue of unemployment”.

    He added: “The truth of the matter is that those pictures that you see at the Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment test across the country demonstrate the problem of Nigeria. It shows failure at all levels particularly at the Federal, to stimulate growth and development that will create investments and jobs, so that people will not be dying when they are trying to write exams.

    “This is an embarrassment to the world because, this is the same kind of numbers you have in virtually all the states and it tells you where criminality and criminal gangs recruit there members from, the pressure on families and why the middle class cannot grow.

    “We have no training to package people who have qualifications that can work, we have no serious training on how to get people self employed, not even on how to encourage people to go for post-graduate training for specialized courses so that they can be employed or self employed. We just abandon young people and when they say they should come and write test in a stadium without tables, people are dying; it’s very sad, very unfortunate, I weep for Nigeria.”

     

  • Our unfortunate police officers

    Our unfortunate police officers

    This has got to be the worst time to be a police officer in Nigeria.

    Not that there was ever a best time or even a good time for that matter, for members of the force have always been poorly trained, ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-equipped, ill-used, and poorly paid into the bargain. Four months after television pictures of the hovels in which they are trained and housed were beamed to a horrified national audience, the conditions remain unchanged.

    In the field, they lack the communication gear and the mobility that may spell the difference not merely between operational success and failure, but even more crucially between life and death for the officers themselves and those they are trying to protect.

    It has long been a standard joke that when beleaguered citizens finally reach the nearest police station with frantic calls that their homes are under attack by armed robbers. the desk officer asks calmly whether the caller can send a vehicle down to convey police team to the scene.

    Sometimes, you even have to supply the stationery for filing a complaint at the police station.

    When it comes to firepower, the police are no match for the hoodlums they are supposed to rein in. I am told that there is a location near FESTAC Town where stolen luxury cars are parked until they can be ferried across the border to be sold off. Geo-positioning technology has traced many a stolen vehicle to that site. But it is so heavily protected by guards packing the most lethal munitions that it is for all practical purposes a no-go area, even for the fearsome mobile police.

    Colossal sums of money raised in the name of the police and purportedly for the well-being of its officers end up in private pockets, and the police cannot even vigorously prosecute the arch-swindler behind the scheme. Their pension funds are embezzled with impunity by the very people who are supposed to keep them in safe and profitable custody.

    As things stand, Nigeria must be the only country where you can swindle the police and suffer no consequences.

    But that is not the worst part. The worst part is that wearing the uniform of the Nigeria police gets more fraught with each passing day.

    In what seemed to signal a resumption of the insurgency in the oil-producing delta, the police have been prime targets and casualties. In one incident scarcely two months ago, 12 police officers on patrol – I used the term loosely, in the American sense, to get round the sexism inherent in “policemen” and “policewomen” – were ambushed, dispossessed of their weapons, killed, stripped of their uniforms, and buried in shallow graves.

    Exactly a week ago, Boko Haram militants attacked Bama, in Borno State, setting alight the police station and the prison. They also attacked the military barracks. By the time they had competed their grisly errand, 55 persons lay dead, among them 22 police officers and 14 prison officials.

    The next day, in Elakyo, near Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, operatives of a little-known cult identified as Ombatse ambushed a contingent of security officials on a mission to arrest their leader. Early reports said as many as 90 members of the team had been killed. At this writing, some 30 police officers have been certified dead; their remains were mutilated in an orgy of bestiality, and then burned. The cultists are said to be holding roughly the same number of police officers hostage in a secret location.

    Every adult Nigerian probably has his or her own “police story”. More often than not, it is a story of shakedowns, extortion, arbitrariness, of grovelling ingratiation before those they perceive as persons of substance, and of more than occasional casual resort to deadly violence against unarmed civilians.

    But in an exact sense, our police officers are victims thrice over.

    They are victims of the successive governments since independence that have assigned them the task of maintaining law and order without providing the necessary tools to carry it out, without training them adequately, without providing decent housing, without paying them reasonable wages, and without guaranteeing that at the end of their service, they will be paid their entitlements without fuss.

    They are victims of the corruption that flows from the very top and permeates every layer of the police establishment.

    And yet, whenever there is talk of “reorganising” the police, the government falls back on a long line of police chiefs who contributed in no small way to its underdevelopment, the very people believed to have diverted official resources to serve private ends, or who conveniently looked elsewhere as the resources were being diverted.

    Tafa Balogun grew obscenely rich even as police officers had to pay bribes to get their official uniforms. Senior police chiefs were part and parcel of the so-called Police Equipment Fund that was a cover for pillage of public resources and private donations on a scale almost beyond belief. They were silent, funereally silent, while the Police Pension Fund was being systematically looted.

    While serving as full-time Inspector-General of Police, Mike Okiro reportedly ran on the side a construction company that routinely took loans from the banks and put in bids for government contracts. If he had invested more time and attention in projects designed to uplift the police force than he did in scheming with James Ibori, the career thief and former Delta State governor now serving time in a London prison, to hound Nuhu Ribadu out of the EFCC and the police and subsequently into exile, the establishment he once headed would probably not be in its present parlous state.

    And yet, Okiro is the person the Jonathan Administration has tapped to head the Police Service Commission, in the undistinguished company of persons re-appointed to the board despite their record of culpable negligence during their previous tour.

    These, surely, cannot be agents of the transformation Dr Jonathan claims to be promoting.

    The police are also victims, finally, of a society that cares little for law and even less for order; a society wedded to the belief that you can always bribe or buy your way out of every infraction of the law.

    Meanwhile, the Minister of Police Affairs, Caleb Olubolade, has not summoned the decency to hand in his resignation, nor President Jonathan the will to sack him.

    In the end, each society gets the kind of police force it deserves. We will never get the perfect society, and we will never get the perfect police force. But unless and until our police officers are substantially empowered to operate as citizens with a stake in the scheme of things rather than as alienated victims of a pernicious system, their woes will continue, and so will the nation’s.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Crisis in Premier League unfortunate, says Chukwu

    Crisis in Premier League unfortunate, says Chukwu

    Former Super Eagles Head Coach Christian Chukwu has described the crisis currently rocking the Nigeria Premier League (NPL) as “unfortunate”.

    He has, therefore, called on the country’s football stakeholders to close ranks and resolve the impasse.

    Chukwu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos that the impasse might stunt the growth of the league. He expressed concern about the plight of the country’s representatives in continental competitions in 2013, saying that they could perform below expectation due to the lack of competitive engagements.

    “It is unfortunate that we have problems in the NPL and now they have constituted an interim management to make sure the league kicks off by next year. I think this time around, we should be able to get everything right so that we don’t have controversies and distractions.

    “I fear for the clubs that are going to represent us in the continental competitions, because by now the teams should have been very strong and working on their weak points, but you can see the league has not kicked off and the African Cup of Nations competition is starting in February; this is the problem we are going to have. All the same, let us get it right irrespective of whoever eventually is in charge of the NPL.’’

    NAN reports that the 2012/2013 season of the NPL earlier scheduled to begin on Dec. 13, had to be postponed because of the dissolution of the body’s board on Dec. 5 by the NPL congress.

  • ‘Mimiko’s remark at debate unfortunate’

    ‘Mimiko’s remark at debate unfortunate’

    A national officer of the Niger Delta Youth Movement (NDYM), Mr. Bright Ojubuyi, yesterday decried a statement credited to Governor Olusegun Mimiko during Friday’s governorship debate in Akure.

    He quoted Mimiko as saying he would continue to do what he had been doing for the past three and a half years, which many people had been criticising.

    Ojubuyi said: “Ondo State under Governor Mimiko has witnessed massive fraud, deceit, misplaced priorities, huge debt, mass unemployment, dearth of infrastructure, among others.

    “Mimiko, instead of telling the people his manifestos, said he will improve on what he has been doing. What this implies is that his administration will continue borrowing money and he will use the next four years to service debts.”

    He described Mimiko’s statement as embarrassing, stressing that he has nothing good for the masses.

    He alleged that the debate has exposed his antics and the bad programmes he has for the citizenry.

    The NDYM officer urged the electorate to reject Mimiko at the polls on October 20.

    He canvassed support for the Peoples Democratic Party’s [PDP’s] candidate, Chief Olusola Oke, who, according to him, possessed leadership qualities.