There hv been concerted efforts by members of the Oyo APC to rewrite history. They repeat so often the lie that Ibadan was a peaceful place bfr Seyi Makinde took over office on May 29, 2019. It has become a case of, repeat a lie often enough, & it begins to sound like the truth.

Immediately after he took over the government in May 2011, a violent clash erupted. The bloody clash described as "a recurring decimal" in the state saw one dead and about 10 injured. https://t.co/xeIsmTGeH3
By June 2012, there was another clash. This time between the NURTW and the PDP. The story was that the NURTW were angry that PDP members were singing Arikesola's praises. You can read the report for yourself. https://t.co/ivwUlqtRED
May 2013 - Violence erupted on Thursday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, when known members of the ACN and the NURTW made to disrupt a political gathering put together by the leader of Accord Party, Senator Rashidi Ladoja. https://t.co/Q7pzkQ62W9
August 2013- No fewer than eleven herdsmen have been killed in the last six weeks in some parts of Oke Ogun area; Otu, Ikomu, Igbo-Ora, Iwere-Ile, Iganna, Ilaju and Ado-Awaye. https://t.co/aHCryI21Bq
March 2014 - At least 20 people are reported to have been injured when dozens were prevented from entering the property - dubbed the "House of Horror". Locals suspect black magic rituals were behind the scores of skeletons and rotting corpses found there. https://t.co/lJayav87nO
In May 2016, Governor Ajimobi spoke to Oyo farmers, particularly in Oke Ogun, over the security of their lives and farmlands in the face of continuing clashes between herdsmen and farmers. https://t.co/ubfnJhkMnj
In June 2016, Governor Ajimobi had to shut down schools in the state because of "violent protests in different parts of the city by students in protest against alleged privatisation of primary and secondary schools by the state government." https://t.co/Gxh08CrLrI
From 2016 to 2017, it was one million boys on a rampage. They sacked communities in some parts of Ibadan metropolis like Beere, Born Photo, Ilupeju, Agbokojo, Mapo, Idi-Aro and Akala Way. https://t.co/zQiLGFDCzu
December 2016 – One million boys vs Indomie boys clashes in Ibadan https://t.co/c977Cl2QUx
May 2017 - This was Police Commissioner Abiodun Odude talking about fighting crime including abductions and the one million boys menace in 2017. Last I checked, you do not fight what does not exist. https://t.co/CyrB8SaVkj
November 2017 Farmer/herdsmen clashes are not a new thing in Oyo State either. This report shows a particularly bloody clash that left 10 injured. https://t.co/9daMX1r9s2
By Feb 2018, the Oyo Assembly had to suggest to Governor Ajimobi to equip and "empower vigilante groups across the state, especially in rural areas, as a way of tackling threats posed by herdsmen to farmers." https://t.co/RDN5JDq81P
In May 2018, a girl was shot on the day of the Local Govt elections. Governor Ajimobi’s govt, blamed the shooting on "the recalcitrant cultists engaging in supremacy battle in Idi Oro and Ayeye areas of Ibadan who are yet to embrace our peace initiative." https://t.co/giac2WAyvu
The next month, June 2018, Bodija Market had to be closed down because butchers were exchanging gunshots with policemen https://t.co/LdnTEI2F74
As late as February 2019, hoodlums were still running amok in no other place than an APC campaign rally in Igboora area of Oyo State. A bloody clash left two dead. https://t.co/UYQBQ4nHrH
And just before Ajimobi left office in 2019, in fact, during his thanksgiving service at the Cathedral of St James, Oke-Bola, Ibadan, an SOS was sent to the Federal Government to take "proactive steps…to rein in bandits, sacking and killing farmers." https://t.co/BCbNnCWhkd
It is worthy of note that the remote causes of the issues that escalated into the mayhem of Friday and Saturday, 12th -13th February 2021, have been brewing for decades. In fact, Governor Ajimobi was invited to look into the issue in 2017 https://t.co/ZROVZQHs8t

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1. I am indeed disgusted with attempts to misrepresent and take out of context what I wrote on my blog yesterday.


2. Those who did that highlighted only one part of paragraph 12 which read: “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.”

3. They stopped there and implied that I am promoting the massacre of the French.

4.If they had read d posting in its entirety & especially the subsequent sentence which read: “But by & large the Muslims hv not applied the “eye for an eye” law. Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t. Instead the French should teach their people to respect other people’s feelings

5. Because of the spin and out of context presentation by those that picked up my posting, reports were made against me and I am accused of promoting violence etc… on Facebook and Twitter.
Watch the entire discussion if you have the time to do so. But if not, please make sure to watch Edhem Eldem summarizing ~150 years of democracy in Turkey in 6 minutes (starting on 57'). And if you can't watch it, fear not; I've transcribed it for you (as public service). Thread:


"Let me start by saying that I am a historian, I see dead people. But more seriously, I am constantly torn between the temptation to see patterns developing over time, and the fear of hasty generalizations and anachronistic comparisons. 1/n

"Nevertheless, the present situation forces me to explore the possible historical dimensions of the problem we're facing today. 2/n

"(...)I intend to go further back in time and widen the angle in order to focus on the confusion I  believe exists between the notions of 'state', 'government', and 'public institutions' in Turkey. 3/n

"In the summer of 1876, that's a historical quote, as Midhat Pasa was trying to draft a constitution, Edhem Pasa wrote to Saffet Pasa, and I quote in Turkish, 'Bize Konstitusyon degil enstitusyon lazim' ('It is not a constitution we need but institutions'). 4/n

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The chorus of this song uses the shlokas taken from Sundarkand of Ramayana.

It is a series of Sanskrit shlokas recited by Jambavant to Hanuman to remind Him of his true potential.

1. धीवर प्रसार शौर्य भरा: The brave persevering one, your bravery is taking you forward.


2. उतसारा स्थिरा घम्भीरा: The one who is leaping higher and higher, who is firm and stable and seriously determined.

3. ुग्रामा असामा शौर्या भावा: He is strong, and without an equal in the ability/mentality to fight

4. रौद्रमा नवा भीतिर्मा: His anger will cause new fears in his foes.

5.विजिटरीपुरु धीरधारा, कलोथरा शिखरा कठोरा: This is a complex expression seen only in Indic language poetry. The poet is stating that Shivudu is experiencing the intensity of climbing a tough peak, and likening

it to the feeling in a hard battle, when you see your enemy defeated, and blood flowing like a rivulet. This is classical Veera rasa.

6.कुलकु थारथिलीथा गम्भीरा, जाया विराट वीरा: His rough body itself is like a sharp weapon (because he is determined to win). Hail this complete

hero of the world.

7.विलयगागनथाला भिकारा, गरज्जद्धरा गारा: The hero is destructive in the air/sky as well (because he can leap at an enemy from a great height). He can defeat the enemy (simply) with his fearsome roar of war.