JEGEDE URGES UNITY, INTENSIFIED CAMPAIGN AS ADC TARGETS VICTORY
Today, Wednesday, October 28, 2026, attended the Ondo State ADC Stakeholders’ Meeting held at the party secretariat, where I called for love, unity and renewed commitment among party leaders across the state.
I urged stakeholders to intensify grassroots mobilisation and campaign efforts ahead of the forthcoming elections, expressing confidence that with unity, dedication and collective determination, the party would emerge victorious in the upcoming elections across the country.
I emphasized that love, peace and solidarity remain essential to strengthening the party and securing electoral success.
Eyitayo Jegede, SAN
The Great Nnamdi Azikiwe had openly said he wouldn’t contest the 1979 election and Awolowo decided to go with an Eastern Region running mate, Phillip Umeadi.
But Jim Nwobodo needed to ride on Zik’s clout to win gubernatorial elections in Anambra, and so they convinced Zik to run; votes were split and Shagari won.
Zik eventually nominated Ministers into Shagari’s Govt.
I was born and raised as a Muslim. My father was the imam of our village mosque. I had no intention of leaving Islam if I believed it was the truth. However, I left it because it no longer made sense to me, and I could not reconcile its issues.
1. Problems with its founder, Muhammad
Muhammad’s actions and teachings raise significant concerns:
•He was a violent leader, involved in 27 wars and 56 raids, most of which he initiated rather than defended.
•He subjugated neighboring tribes, enslaved their men, women, and children, and engaged in sexual relations with one of the captives just days after killing her family, including her husband.
•He married his adopted son’s wife and wed a child, Aisha, when she was only 9 years old, while he was 53.
•He exhibited questionable behavior, like having sexual relations with all his 11 wives in one night without even washing in between, and sometimes forgetting next day whether he had done sex or not.
•He demanded 20% of war booty, suggesting a pursuit of power, wealth, and sexual gratification under the guise of prophethood.
•He was misogynistic, teaching that women:
•Have half the intelligence of men.
•Are the majority of Hell’s inhabitants.
•Appear in the image of Satan.
•Are inherently crooked due to being created from a crooked rib.
•Are cheaters and unfit to rule.
2. Issues with the Quran
The Quran contains teachings and errors that are deeply troubling:
•It promotes hatred towards non-Muslims through the concept of Al-Walaa wal-Baraa (loyalty to Muslims and disavowal of non-Muslims).
•It commands Muslims to wage war against non-believers until they submit to Islam, and imposes the Jizya tax on Christians and Jews who refuse to convert.
•It allows men to beat disobedient wives, and assigns women half the inheritance and testimony value of men.
•It is riddled with historical inaccuracies, such as:
•Confusing Mary, the mother of Jesus, with Miriam, the sister of Aaron.
•Referring to Samaria as existing during the time of Moses.
•Claiming that Haman was a minister of Pharaoh.
•Depicting Alexander the Great (Dhu al-Qarnayn) as a prophet sent by God and a virtuous man.
3. Islam’s incompatibility with modern laws
Islamic Hudud punishments are incompatible with human rights and modern legal systems. These include:
•Amputations for theft.
•Stoning and lashing for adultery.
•Crucifixion.
•Execution of apostates.
These are barbaric 7th-century laws that have no place in today’s world. For these reasons and more, I could no longer follow Islam.
You all claimed @atiku is a thief but @officialABAT has the highest number of oil blocks in Nigeria and he is also the owner of the refinery in Malta where NNPC brings in refined products from. This is aside Alpha beta. Some Nigerians are just mugu to be honest
Eyitayo Jegede SAN; has reacted to reports claiming he was a member of the committee that influenced the selection of the running mate to HE Agboola Ajayi.
Eyitayo Jegede SAN was neither a member nor involved in the decision making; as it is the right of candidate to do so.
It is a plan that I am more than willing to disclose details of its workings with the current government in order to take Nigeria out of the depth of hunger and anger that we find ourselves.
The plan includes strategic steps we must take to recover the economy and make it stronger, dynamic, resilient, and competitive.
We had outlined plans to relax the fiscal constraints facing us to include:
• Improving Spending Efficiency and Blocking Leakages
• Saving money through:
a. A review of fiscal support for non-performing government enterprises and the privatization of those that can not sustain themselves.
b. Steps to improve spending efficiency through a gradual reduction in government recurrent expenditures, ensuring that those expenditures reflect higher levels of service delivery. Over the medium term, recurrent expenditures should not exceed 45% of the budget.
c. A review of government procurement processes to ensure high levels of transparency, competitiveness, and value-for-money and eliminate all leakages.
Unless, and until there are clear-cut policies and pathway to economic rejuvenation predicated on a leadership led sacrifice, there will be discontentment, especially among the youths, which may find expression in protests and for which it will be silly to continue to blame the opposition for. -AA
I used to hate Israel, I used hate Jews, I was taught that they came and took the land of Arabs/Muslims; they kicked them out of their homes.
When I grew up and studied real history; I found out that Jews existed for thousands of years in that land, other Jews joined them from Europe and also form Arab countries, they bought homes and lands, and in a time where all new states were emerging (like Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan) Jews wanted a state for them were they can feel safe. The untied nations proposed two states, Arabs rejected it, Jews accepted it and announced their state, Arabs declared war in 1948, they lost, yet they declared war in 1967 and lost one more time. They only got land back when they signed peace treaties with Israel.
I learned that Israel always wanted peace but Arabs always chose war.
It’s time to change all of that! We can’t live all our lives in war
Being text of a World Press Conference on the Presidential Election Petition Judgement by Atiku Abubakar, GCON, Waziri Adamawa, former Vice President of Nigeria (1999-2007) and Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 Election, at the PDP Headquarters in Abuja on Monday, 30th October, 2023.
Protocol.
Gentlemen of the Press.
Someone asked me what I would do if I lost my election petition appeal at the Supreme Court. In response, I said that as long as Nigeria wins, the struggle would have been worth the while. By that, I meant that the bigger loss would not be mine but Nigeria’s if the Supreme Court legitimizes illegality, including forgery, identity theft, and perjury.
If the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, implies by its judgment that crime is good and should be rewarded, then Nigeria has lost and the country is doomed irrespective of who occupies the Presidential seat. If the Supreme Court decides that the Electoral umpire, INEC, can tell the public one thing and then do something else in order to reach a corruptly predetermined outcome, then there is really no hope for the country’s democracy and electoral politics.
Obviously, the consequences of those decisions for the country will not end at the expiration of the current government. They will last for decades. I am absolutely sure that history will vindicate me. We now know what the Supreme Court has decided.
At critical points in my political life, I always ignored the easy but ignoble path and chosen the difficult but dignified path, the path of truth, of morality, of democracy and rule of law.
I always chose freedom over servitude, whatever the personal discomforts my choice entails. When I joined politics, the critical challenge was easing the military out of power so that civilian democratic governance could be restored in Nigeria. It later became a very defining struggle, and, as one of the leaders of that struggle, I was targeted for elimination.
In one incident, nine policemen guarding my home in Kaduna were murdered in an attempt to assassinate me. I was also forced into exile for nine (9) months. In addition, my interest in a logistics company that I co-owned was confiscated and given to friends of the military government. As Vice President in the civilian government that succeeded the military, I, again at great personal cost, chose to oppose the extension of the tenure of the government beyond the two four-year terms enshrined in our constitution.
In response to the official backlash against me, I instituted several cases in the courts, which led to seven landmark decisions that helped to deepen our democracy and rule of law. At the current historic moment, the easier option for me would have been to fold up and retreat after the mandate banditry perpetrated by the APC and INEC.
But I went to the Nigerian courts to seek redress. I even went to an American court to help with unravelling what our state institutions charged with such responsibilities were unwilling or unable to do, including unravelling the qualifying academic records of the person sworn in as our President and by implication, hopefully who he really is.
I offered that evidence procured with the assistance of the American Court to our Supreme Court to help it to do justice in this case. I give this background to underscore that what we are currently dealing with is bigger than one or two presidential elections and is certainly bigger than Atiku Abubakar. It is not about me; it is about our country, Nigeria. It is about the kind of society we want to leave for the next generation and what kind of example we want to set for our children and their children.
Politics aside, Dino Melaye is the best candidate in Kogi. Ododo of APC was boasting of the being the richest in Nigeria the other day while avoiding serious conversations, Leke of ADC has been moving around promising Kings good hotels/night life and Muri of SDP is relying solely on his tribal card.
Labour Party doesn't exist in that part of the world.
Only Dino Melaye has been talking about his plans for local government, youth, women, education, infrastructures, etc. in the last few weeks. If you are truly after the development of Kogi State, you only have one option on the ballot, and the option is Dino Melaye.
Vote Dino, a serious candidate. Vote Melaye, the most experienced and most prepared among the candidates. May Kogi succeed.
Today, alongside other leaders of our great party @officialPDP, we flagged off the campaign of our candidate at the upcoming gubernatorial election in Kogi State, my brother and friend Senator @_dinomelaye .