I Wish I Could Bring Back My Son But I Cannot, Grieving Tinubu Laments Yemi Adebowale Bereaved former governor of Lagos State and a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu yesterday went emotional over the death of his first son, Jide, who died of cardiac arrest in Lagos early this week and was buried yesterday,
lamenting that he wished he could bring him back. Tinubu, who issued a formal statement on the passage of the 37-year-old Jide, lamented: “I wish I could bring my son back but I cannot. However, what I can do is to be more caring and helpful to the living as I know this is what Jide would want to become of his passing. Let us
all take a lesson from this and think a bit more about our fellow man, our neighbour, our fellow Nigerians. Let us live as we were meant to live with each other in greater peace, compassion and love. If only this can happen, I know my son will be happy.” The APC chieftain described late Jide as a highly intelligent person with a vibrant personality
and a zest for life. He said his late son followed his own course and made his own way on his own terms: “Those who knew him could not help but like him. Yet, he was taken away by cardiac arrest when it seemed he had so much life to still live. This is a reminder that we must live each day to its best as none of
us know when our last day shall be. Mortality comes upon us all. We have no choice in that but we do have a choice whether we shall be good or bad, just or unjust. Let us all strive toward the best in ourselves. “Jide lived for so long in London and there he has left behind a darling wife and three precious boys. My wife Remi,
and I, have gone to London to be with them at this painful time to support and help them. Please, excuse our absence from Lagos for a while, but it is essential that we are with them. Prayers are being offered and will continue to be offered for the repose of his soul. I have suffered a grave Continued on page 6
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Onaiyekan: With Maina's Reinstatement, Buhari's Anti-Corruption War Confusing OurMumuDonDo takes protest to AGF’s office Paul Obi in Abuja The Catholic Bishop of Abuja Metropolitan See, His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan,
yesterday, said going by the revelations from the surreptitious reinstatement of former boss of the Presidential Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina,
a lot of things might be going on in the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that many Nigerians were unaware of. In a related development,
the Charly Boy group, OurMumuDonDo yesterday took their protest to the Abuja office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the
Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, over alleged cover up of several corruption cases against top officials of the government. Onaiyekan, who was speaking
in Abuja at the Bicentenary (200th) anniversary of the birth of Baha’u’llah, the prophet and Continued on page 6
N/Delta Militants Call Off Ceasefire, Threaten to Resume Bombings Accuse FG of reneging on agreements
Emmanuel Addeh in Yenagoa After several months of respite, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), yesterday said it was calling off a ceasefire agreement it had with the federal government to halt the bombing of oil and gas infrastructure in the Niger Delta region. The group also vowed that unlike its operation in 2016 when it pledged not to shed any blood, including that of Nigerian soldiers, the impending fight would be “bloody and brutal”. Members of the NDA who succeeded in cutting Nigeria’s oil export by at least half last year, in the violent group’s heady days, said they were returning to the creeks because the government at the centre had failed to develop the region and forge a new vision as promised by President Muhammadu Buhari. A statement posted on its website yesterday and signed by its Spokesman, ‘Maj. Gen.’
Murdoch Agbinibo, also took the Edwin Clark-led Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) as well as other leaders of the region to the cleaners, maintaining that the group had lost faith in PANDEF's ability to get the federal government to develop the region. But in a bizarre twist, NDA also took on Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, whom they accused of trying to intimidate them to stop their proposed destruction of critical infrastructure in the Niger Delta. It denounced the group, Reformed Niger Delta Avengers (RNDA), which had recently named some elders from the region to negotiate on their behalf, insisting that the RNDA was a group of “political jobbers”, bent on ripping off the Niger Delta people. It said: “The Intelligence Unit of the NDA has gathered Continued on page 6
Diamond Bank Divests West African Subsidiaries MAHAMA IN THE VILLA… R-L: President Muhammadu Buhari with the former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama during a private dinner at the State House, Abuja ....yesterday ... Page 6
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