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WHY SOLDIERS INVADED ENILOLOBO’S HOME, BEAT HON TOPE TO STUPOUR Story by Ololade Barakat and Toyo C. Ngem To ref the origin of this publication, there should be no need for Civics Weekly to feign ignorance of the raging story in endless shindig of how Alhaji Abdullahi Enilolobo, a chieftain of the Alimosho All Progressives Congress (APC), appears to have become an election hero following a purported search of his home by soldiers of the Nigerian Army on the polling day of this past Presidential Election. For clarity, Enilolobo is the surrogate of embattled factional leader of Alimosho APC, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior and former governor of Osun State, whose current intrigues allegedly include a mission to return to Alimosho to wrestle power with the former Deputy Governor of Lagos, Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire (OFR). It is nevertheless to meet the eyes for this magazine to clarify that this publication is not a direct rejoinder to those stories that never hid their ...

-- BOILS OVER ANOTHER SHOW OF BADEJO’S BETRAYAL IN MISMANAGEMENT OF GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION FUNDS BY AREGBE CAMP Razaq Adedeji Jimoh and Toyo C. Ngem THE Civics Weekly , your darling magazine, has been vindicated as it came out officially from the horse’s mouth that the purported controversial reconciliation meeting between Pa Abel Badejo and Alhaji Yisa Yusuf (aka Y.Y.) was never to the knowledge of Joke Orelope. Rather more facts is emerging that the “peace meeting” was more of a treachery and sell out than a noble intention on the part of Pa Badejo. This fact came out this past week as the former deputy governor of Lagos State, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire (OFR) officially disclosed that Pa Badejo held the meeting without her knowledge and consent to make such move. This was revealed amidst her furious anger that the BATCO-Mandate leadership, a scion of the enigmatic Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola’s faction, currently led by Alhaji Abdullahi Enilolobo in pro...

VICTORY IN PATCHES OF THE CRACK PART 2 ? By Razaq Adedeji Jimoh As matters arising from the first part of this piece, two issues were raised but put in abeyance. The first was put in this simple sentence that with victory in the governorship election, “Governor Sanwo-Olu did not fall per se. But with the earlier presidential election, he stumbled big time on a big stone!” with a prima facie established against him as partly the cause of election victory that was denied Tinubu. The second was the seemingly serial influence of Igbo bloc votes always coming in detrimental threat to the progressive ideology of Lagos at every election cycle in the recent past. By implicit concept from the heart of this writer, the former is about the direct faults of the state leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) – as the real cause; while the latter is the generally perceived cause for the loss of February 25 Presidential Election in the state. Analysis of these two, as the desirable introsp...