John Okhai Blog

  The Senator representing the Lagos East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Distinguished Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA has commiserated with President Muhammadu Buhari and the entire nation over the unfortunate passing of military officers who died in plane crash on Friday.   Abiru in a condolence letter he personally signed on Sunday, described the tragic event as a fatal blow to the nation and the immediate families of the deceased.    The Senator specifically extolled the gallantry and courage of an illustrious indigene of Ikorodu, Late Brigadier- General Lookman Olatunji Olayinka, the Provost Marshall, Nigerian Army Headquarters, Abuja who died alongside brave military top brass.   Abiru, in his emotion-laden condolence letter expressed grief over the passage and prayed that Almighty Allah should comfort the families of the departed    “I commiserate with the President and the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Feder...

BAYELSA APC: FACTION OR NO FACTION?  Mum would have been my response to the mischief makers desperately courting attention, by laying claims to something that exists only in the figment of their warped imagination. But allowing falsehood to sail on, unchallenged, could only give it a semblance of truth in the court of undiscerning public.  It smacks of outright mischief, for anyone to lay claims to being the leader of a faction of the Bayelsa state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC. There is no modicum of truth in that claim. Anyone masquerading as a leader of any such faction or any group of persons parading themselves as executive members of a faction of the Bayelsa state, APC, are simply delusional! For the records, the Honourable Minister of Petroleum Resources for state, H.E Chief Timipre remains the leader of the party, while Jothan Amos and Eng. Alabo Martins are the caretaker and extraordinary committee chairman and Secretary of the party, respectively....