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Tinubu, Kashamu's brethren in corruption, berates Obasanjo over his 'disparaging' remarks on Kashamu's death
CC™ Global NewsBuruji Kashamu was wanted for drug trafficking in the United States
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress Leader may have sent an unmistakable reaction to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s condolence message on the death of Senator Buruji Kashamu.
In Tinubu’s condolence message, he underscored the need to show kindness to the dead, a quality missing in Obasanjo’s own.
Tinubu said Kashamu’s death demonstrated the “transience of human life and rekindles the fact that death is inevitable for every mortal.”
Without addressing Obasanjo directly, Tinubu dropped a line of moral lesson to the former president:
“It behoves on us to be kind to the dead”.
On Saturday, Obasanjo had issued a controversial condolence message to Ogun governor, Dapo Abiodun, by dredging out the past of the senator.
“The life and history of the departed have lessons for those of all us on this side of the veil. Senator Esho Jinadu (Buruji Kashamu) in his lifetime used the maneuver of law and politics to escape from facing justice on alleged criminal offence in Nigeria and outside Nigeria.
“But no legal, political, cultural, social or even medical maneuver could stop the cold hand of death when the Creator of all of us decides that the time is up”, Obasanjo wrote.
His message triggered debate, as to whether he had not broken the cultural norm, by speaking ill of the dead.
The jury is still out to decide whether he was right or wrong.
Tinubu in his own message, expressed deep shock and sadness about Buruji’s death.
According to him, Buruji’s death has lengthened the grotesque list of important personalities that have been lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Friday
Texas man jailed for spending COVID-19 loans on Lamborghini, strip clubs
Lee Price III, 29, was charged with fraud after he secured two government loans under the Paycheck Protection Program to pay employees he did not have, the Justice Department said in a statement.
Instead he spent the funds on lavish goods like a sports car and a Rolex watch, as well as real estate, an F-350 pickup truck, and thousands of dollars at Houston strip clubs, the statement said.
Price secured two loans: Price Enterprises Holdings allegedly received more than $900,000, while 713 Construction was approved for over $700,000.
Neither firms has employees and "the individual listed as CEO on the 713 Construction loan application died in April 2020, a month before the application was submitted," according to the complaint.
Congress approved the PPP program in late March to help small businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic, granting loans that could be forgiven if they were used to pay wages, rent and utilities.
Thursday
U.S. election 2020: Trump says opponent Biden will 'hurt God'
The remarks, during a trip to Ohio, came as Mr Trump tries to make up ground in the crucial Midwestern states that were his path to victory in 2016.
"He's against God. He's against guns," said the president, a Republican.
Mr Biden, an avowed Catholic, will take on Mr Trump in November. Opinion polls suggest the Democrat currently leads.
The former U.S. vice-president has spoken frequently about how his faith helped him cope with the deaths of his first wife and daughter in a 1972 car accident.
His campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement on Thursday: "Joe Biden's faith is at the core of who he is; he's lived it with dignity his entire life, and it's been a source of strength and comfort in times of extreme hardship."
The president said of Mr Biden earlier in the day in Cleveland, Ohio: "He's following the radical left agenda.
"Take away your guns, destroy your Second Amendment. No religion, no anything, hurt the Bible, hurt God.
"He's against God, he's against guns, he's against energy, our kind of energy."
Mr Trump has been accused of using the platform of the presidency for political gain by injecting campaign-style rhetoric into taxpayer-funded official engagements intended to communicate U.S. government policy.
At a washing machine factory later on Thursday, the president kept up the onslaught on his challenger.
"I wouldn't say he's at the top of his game," the president said.
Both the Trump and Biden campaigns have traded accusations that their candidate has dementia. Mr Trump is 74 and Mr Biden 77.
In an advertisement released by the Trump campaign this week, the Democrat was depicted as "hiding" alone in his basement, using an image that had been edited to remove several other people.
Religion has previously come up in this campaign. Mr Biden accused the president of cynically using a Bible for a photo op outside a church in early June after protesters - who were described by journalists at the scene as peaceful - had been forcibly dispersed by law enforcement outside the White House.
Throughout his tenure, Mr Trump has enjoyed a mostly strong backing from evangelical Christians.
In his list of "six promises" for a second term unveiled in Ohio on Thursday, Mr Trump focused heavily on economic recovery, vowing to turn the U.S. into a premier medical manufacturer, launch "millions" of manufacturing jobs and bring back American jobs and factories from abroad.
The pledges echo many of those from his 2016 campaign, a platform of economic populism often credited with his wins in swing states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
But the president's message of prosperity has been thwarted this time around by the coronavirus outbreak. The U.S. economy shrank at a 32.9% annual rate between April and June as the country faced lockdowns and spending cuts during the pandemic, marking the steepest decline since the government began keeping records in 1947.
Now, polls show Mr Biden with leads in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - three industrial states his Republican rival won by margins of less than 1% to claim victory in 2016. And in Iowa, Ohio and Texas, where Mr Trump won last time by 8-10%, he is currently neck-and-neck with Mr Biden.
Source: BBC News
Monday
POLL: Trump in trouble as nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of his handling of COVID-19, protests, Russia.....
This ABC News/Ipsos poll was conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs‘ KnowledgePanel® July 29-30, 2020, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 730 adults. Results have a margin of sampling error of 4.0 points, including the design effect. See the poll’s topline results and details on the methodology here.
Trump in trouble as nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of his handling of COVID-19, protests, Russia: POLL originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
Sunday
Four car crash in South Federal Way on 288th and Military road
Saturday
U.S. President Donald Trump in another show of executive and personal intemperance says he will ban TikTok in the United States
Tuesday
Nigerian Government reacts to viral hydroxychloroquine video attributed to Nigerian physician
Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu - Director-General of the NCDC |
Nigeria on Tuesday said it has not validated the use of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19, an obvious reaction to the viral video of Nigerian-born physician, Dr. Stella Immanuel.
Saturday
Tiger Woods' struggles continue at the Memorial Tournament as his back problems resurface
The plot thickens: APC screening committee disqualifies Segun Abraham, a Tinubu protege in Ondo guber election
The screening committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has disqualified a protege of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Dr. Segun Abraham, from the gubernatorial election primaries scheduled for later this month, in Ondo State.
It should be noted that Dr. Abraham lost to the current Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu in the 2016 primary elections for the same office and that loss was what prompted Bola Tinubu to move decisively against the then National Chairman of the APC, John Odigie-Oyegun.
It is no secret that Bola Tinubu nurses aspirations for the 'exalted' seat at Aso Rock, but recent developments within the rank and file of the ruling party, seem to suggest that he (Tinubu) may be losing his grip on the power base of the APC as we move closer to the general elections in 2023.
It is particularly noteworthy that out of the 12 aspirants screened for the primary elections, the only candidate disqualified was Dr. Abraham and that was definitely a pointed message to the "Lion of Bourdillon" and it remains to be seen what his response will be.
According to the committee, Dr. Abraham has the option of appealing his disqualification.