๐ Matรญas Palacios: โLook how those who made you suffer are waiting for you; those because of whom you suffered are now taking photos and want your autographโฆโ
๐ฆ๐ท Leo Messi: โThey asked me for my jersey too, but inside the pitch they keep kicking me ๐โ
The coding competition has started for the International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale in Rome, Italy.
Itโs beautiful to see bright minds challenge themselves.
Next year we will have our children compete in the coding competition as well.
Maradona never won the Copa America
Pele never played in Europe
Brazilian Ronaldo (R9) never won the Champions League
Cryuff never won the World Cup
Cristiano Ronaldo never won the World Cup
Mbappe never won the Champions League & Ballon DโOr
Neymar never won the World Cup or Copa America
Then there is Lionel Messi who has won it all.
Messi competed with the past, present, future and ancient of days and won every single debate
I just read the statement issued by Bayo Onanuga on behalf of the Presidency, which supposedly trying to put a defence for the Chief of staff, Gbajabiamila.
However, I think the Presidency's statement was clearly intended to shut down public scrutiny. Ironically, it has achieved the exact opposite. It answered some questions, but in doing so, it exposed even bigger ones.
Let us assume, for a moment, that every allegation against Prince Adeyemi is true. Even then, the statement leaves glaring gaps that no amount of rhetoric can paper over.
You are asking Nigerians to believe that one private citizen woke up one morning, invented a presidential agency, forged his own appointment, secured office space inside the Federal Secretariat, recruited staff, held meetings with diplomats, corresponded with government institutions, allegedly opened a CBN account through official channels, and if the official budget documents are anything to go by, the same "non-existent" agency found its way into the Appropriation Act with an allocation running into billions.
If that is truly what happened, then this is no longer just the story of an alleged fraudster. It is also the story of spectacular institutional failure. Either government systems were astonishingly easy to deceive, or there are questions that still have not been answered.
The statement conveniently glosses over the budget issue. That silence is deafening.
How does a fictitious agency appear in the national budget? Budget allocations do not descend from heaven. They pass through ministries, the Budget Office, executive review and legislative approval. Who introduced the line item? Who processed it? Who signed off on it? Who failed to ask whether the agency even existed?
Those are not political questions. They are governance questions.
Then there is the issue of the Federal Secretariat office. Offices inside government complexes are not roadside kiosks. How was the space obtained? Under whose authority? How long did it operate? Who interacted with the occupants? Who looked the other way?
Again, silence.
Then comes the most curious part of the story.
The Presidency says the very person allegedly identified as the link between Adeyemi and the purported appointment, Dolapo Babatunde Tanimola, had died in a hotel fire just five days before Adeyemi's arrest.
That is an extraordinary detail. Yet we are given almost nothing beyond it.
Was there an autopsy? Was there a coroner's inquest? What did investigators conclude about the fire? Were his electronic devices, communications and financial records examined? If he was central enough to be named in the statement, why is the public expected not to ask what became of the investigation into his death?
These are not conspiracy theories. They are the obvious questions any serious investigator would ask.
The Presidency wants Nigerians to focus exclusively on whether Adeyemi is an impostor. Fair enough. The courts will determine that.
But the Presidency cannot ask the public to ignore the conduct of government institutions in the same breath.
This is bigger than one man.
If the council was fake, explain how it entered the budget.
If the appointment was forged, explain how government systems repeatedly interacted with the supposed beneficiary.
If official channels were deceived, explain where the safeguards failed.
If there was no insider involvement, show the documentary trail that proves it.
Accountability does not begin and end with charging one individual. It also requires explaining how the machinery of government appeared to validate, accommodate or fail to detect what is now described as a complete fabrication.
The public deserves more than a carefully written press statement. It deserves answers backed by records, timelines and evidence.
Until those answers are provided, this matter is far from settled.
*Barr. Solomon Dalung*
Ex Minister of Youths & Sports
Members of Sunday Igbohoโs Iru Esin vigilante group tracked down and arrested suspected bandits and kidnappers hiding in a bush in Ibadan. According to the group, the suspects opened fire during the operation, but the vigilantes overpowered and arrested them.
"Late President Buhari went to China to borrow money to construct a rail line from Nigeria to Niger. Look at the current condition of the rail track, and up till now, we are still paying for the loan. Rotimi Amaechi, look at your handiwork."
โIsaac Fayose