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OPINION: 24 Governors And Still Counting
By Suyi Ayodele
Years ago, when the sun used to rise and set at its time, a powerful farmer lived. History has it that at his coming of age, the man boasted that he would have the largest farm in his neighbourhood. He was said to have also told those who heard him boast that he would not work harder than any average farmer to achieve the feat. His strength, the powerful farmer told his listeners, is that he would do what nobody would ever do.
And true to his boast, the man’s farm became the talk of the town. He cultivated virgin lands and acquired old farms from their owners. Some voluntarily yielded their plantations to him. Many others were forced to give up their farmlands by circumstances beyond their control. Not a few ‘recalcitrant’ farmers, who resisted the acquisition of their farmlands, died mysteriously. The situation got to a point that nobody was willing to share farm boundaries with the powerful farmer.
He became the only famer around. Other farmers ‘willingly’ turned farm hands on his plantation. At that point, the powerful farmer became a demigod. He decided who ate and who should go hungry. Even when a few others struggled to farm, the yields from their fields were too miserable. Yet, the harvests from the powerful farmer were bountiful. He sold, became rich and had in excess while others wallowed in abject poverty! The elders of the land knew something was wrong. They knew that the trajectory was no longer normal. They decided to act.
A powerful diviner was consulted. What came from the divination board was shocking. The Oracle revealed that the powerful farmer was not ordinary. Ifa disclosed that while the other farmers were relying on the strength of their hands, the powerful farmer did something esoteric.
According to Òpèlè, the powerful man consulted a sorcerer who made a charm that makes other people’s farm produce to reduce in size while that of the powerful man grew in leaps and bounds. That metaphysics is known as Ako. Ako, Yoruba metaphysics says it is twofold. One, the worse of the two, kills individuals and makes their ghosts work on the charmer’s farm. The other simply makes the other farmers’ produce grow wretched while the charmer’s produce prospers. In the case of the powerful farmer, Ifa said he combined the two! That was why those who resisted him died prematurely.
What was the solution? The divination said that if they must get rid of the powerful farmer, the people must make a sacrifice of all edibles and add what is forbidden for the powerful farmer to eat. Once the man sees the sacrifice, the divination said, he would lose all his powers. And what was that item? They asked. Ifa responded that the people should find out by themselves. After all, it is said that there is nothing as accurate as a self-applied divination.
The elders left and made arrangements for the sacrifice. All the edibles were added and the pot placed on the farm road the powerful man takes to his farm. But after about three attempts and nothing happened, the elders returned to their diviner. The message they got was that there was something they did not add. Ifa asked them to go and think deeply at home.
To solve the riddle, the elders took counsel and decided to prepare another pot of sacrifice. But this time around, they appointed some men to hide in the bush to spy on the man and his reaction when he saw the sacrifice.
The strategy worked. Early the following morning, when the man stumbled on the new pot of sacrifice, he laughed. He used his cutlass to check the items in the pot and laughed again. He then wondered aloud why the people would keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result. In his arrogance, he said, loudly to himself: “But they tried this time around. The only thing missing here is a lizard.” He upturned the pot and left for his farm.
Those hiding in the bush heard him clearly. They went back and reported their findings to the elders. The next day, another pot of sacrifice was waiting. But this time around, various types of lizards were added. The people did not want to take any chances.
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When the powerful man got to the spot, he knew that something had happened to him. He did all he could to reverse the sacrifice. He chanted, moved to incantation; he did evocation and ended with invocation. All failed! The powers he had had been neutralised. The esikus (ghosts)of those working on his farm descended on him and clubbed him mercilessly. He was taken home half dead. His era of terror ended.
Our native upbringing does not allow a younger person to teach an elder the wisdom of life. But the name, Ajáléonílébotièléyìn (A-já-lé-o-ní-lé-bo-ti-è-lé-yìn) -he who plunders another’s house to fortify his own backyard – is instructive here.
It is also un-African for a child to say he has seen a lot when the elders are present. I subscribe to that native injunction. But it is equally safe for a child to say that the little he has seen is enough to teach a life-lesson.
If President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is rejoicing today because all his political opponents are coming to his camp in droves, I will advise him to ask his diviners the implications. There is a reason why he should consult those who are wise why nobody names his child Ajáléonílébotièléyìn.
This story above is derived from the legend of Ajáléonílébotièléyìn. Our elders say that we should tell he who removes other people’s roofs to cover his own porch to remember the day a whirlwind will remove his own roof (E so fún Ajáléonílébotièléyìn pé kó rántí ojó tí ìjì máa jà tó máa gbé’lé tiè lo). When that time comes, they caution that there will be no place to take cover from the impending rain.
President Tinubu appears to be the luckiest man today in Nigeria. He should be happy about that. He has every reason to celebrate. His camp is also justified if the drums are rolled out in jollification. If the trend of defection continues, Tinubu will be contesting against Tinubu in 2027! But I don’t think President Tinubu should be happy because he is the only farmer whose farm harvest is bountiful!
Why do I think the President should not be happy? The story of Ajáléonílébotièléyìn tells me that. Names in my Yoruba background carry meanings. This particular one is not just a name but a legend. The wisdom of the name tells me that President Tinubu should not rejoice because he has no opposition to his painful rule over Nigeria.
Joy, in the African worldview, has a slender and delicate body. We call it ayò, abara tíńtín (the tiny-bodied joy) in my place. Why did those before us give joy such a contrasting name? The elders of that era argued that within joy lies defeat, and at times, sadness.
When one is happy, they caution that such a person should not be overjoyed like the proverbial striped frog (Akere) which breaks its limbs while rejoicing! The story behind ayò àkèré (the joy of the striped frog) will, however, not be told today.
At the last count, President Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress (APC), has 24 governors in its kitty. Only God can tell if any governor will remain in the opposition parties before the 2027 general election. This is a great feat by the President.
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The simple implication is that President Tinubu, today, appears unbeatable! But is that true? Is there a man who cannot be defeated? Is there any champion for life? When a man is too powerful for his enemies to handle, what do our elders ask us to do? The answer to this last poser is the experience of life as taught by the name: Ajáléonílébotièléyìn.
What President Tinubu is doing with the decimation of the opposition is exactly what the powerful farmer, Ajáléonílébotièléyìn did to his fellow peasants. He can only thrive for a while. Those who believe that President Tinubu is the master strategist should know that very soon, the sacrificial pot waiting at the three-footpath for the President will contain an item that Tinubu is forbidden to eat. It will happen because nature does not allow an individual to answer the name, we-have-come (Enìkan kìí jé àwádé)!
The president’s masquerade can dance alone for as long as he wants at the arena. It must surely exhaust all the stunts in its arsenal. Former Governor Raufu Aregbesola of Osun State hinted at that last week. We should pay more than a passing attention to the man known as Ogbeni! The whirlwind will surely come and blow off the roof of Ajáléonílébotièléyìn.
He cannot be the only one with a roof over his head. And because he had succeeded in the past in rendering other houses roofless, there will be no place of refuge from the impending inclement weather! Like they say on the street, everyone go chop breakfast! This is why I believe that it is too premature for Tinubu and his supporters to rejoice.
What the President and his APC are doing is not ordinary. The way the opposition bigwigs are rushing like Kwesi Brew’s poem, Lest We Be The Last, to the ruling APC can only spell doom for the nation. The end, like Brew’s poem, will not be palatable to the defectors of today. Tinubu himself will find out too late that there is nothing to the defections. His harvested ‘friends’ have enough forbidden edibles in their bags.
This is one of the reasons I consider Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State’s reaction to the gale of defections that has hit the PDP as the most metaphorical reaction so far to the epidemic of defections sweeping across our political landscape. Looking at how politicians, especially fellow governors, are falling over one another to join the ruling APC, Makinde quipped that he was not moved by the number of the people defecting to the ruling party.
He added that he would “only be moved when hunger defects into the APC.” That was classic; that was deep in all ramifications. The statement has generated a lot of negative reactions especially by the apologists of the ruling APC and the Dictator-General of Nigeria, President Tinubu, who, today, is the sole beneficiary of the harvest of defections.
Many have argued that it was ‘uncharitable’ of Governor Makinde to have mocked Nigerians for being hungry. Some said that it was ‘self-indicting’ and ‘insensitive’ to talk about poverty in the land. They argue that if indeed there is hunger in the land, Makinde is part of the people who inflicted that pain on the citizenry. I don’t hold the portfolio of Makinde’s publicist, and as such, I won’t defend him on that.
Beyond the emotional responses from those who felt that Makinde’s statement hit the raw nerve of the god of the land, we need to look at what the governor said and ask if he lied or not. We need to do this before we bay for the governor’s blood.
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Going by the reaction from President Tinubu’s camp, it is established that those who are ready to have Makinde for supper over the statement agreed with the Oyo State governor that Nigerians are hungry. They equally admitted that poverty walks on our streets in a three-piece suit. Their only point of divergence is that Makinde cannot exonerate himself. That is a good enough argument. Truth is that no leader in the present dispensation is exempted from blame.
But what is the import of Makinde’s statement? Did he utter that statement in mockery or is it a statement uttered to demonstrate bewilderment? I have asked those gloating that “Tinubu’s strategy is working” by the gale of the defections hitting the PDP and the other opposition parties what exactly is the attraction in the APC. I have asked, without getting any convincing answer, what that fantastic feat of President Tinubu is drawing the opposition to his camp.
This is where I find Makinde’s statement very deep. Since May 29, 2023, when Tinubu took the oath of office, what has been the fate of the masses of this country? This is what I think the governor was trying to say. His argument is that those defecting to the APC either from the PDP or the Labour Party (LP), are not doing so because they are convinced that the APC government of President Tinubu has changed the lives of the people for the better.
Makinde, to my understanding, is saying that the only time he would give serious consideration to the madness going on in the political firmament is when hunger, the hallmark of the Tinubu administration, defects and relocates to the president’s camp. In essence, it does not make any sense that people will voluntarily move into the house of the one afflicting them!
That is logical enough and I am tempted to follow that line of reasoning. Something beyond the surface is behind the current mass movement of the opposition figures to the ruling APC. I am convinced that another Ajáléonílébotièléyìn is at work here.
It might not be that the present situation has anything to do with an esoteric measure; it could be that the President is arm-twisting the opposition. A former governor of one of the Niger Delta states was reported to have wept profusely while begging his successor to move over to the APC. The former governor was said to have told those who cared to listen that the power-that-be had threatened him with the anti-graft agency. And when a man’s hands are soiled, a little jolt will make him capitulate!
While, for the purpose of this argument, one can excuse the selfishness of the governors of Delta, Enugu, and Akwa Ibom States, all first-term governors, in abandoning the PDP for the APC for political survival in the hands of a mean political vampire, how does one justify the resignation of Governor Duoye Diri of Bayelsa State from the PDP? What exactly do we say Governor Diri is looking for? Here is a man who fought gallantly to earn a second term in office now jumping ship! And yet, some brainwave-individuals would want us to believe that there is nothing fishy!
The President’s camp can rejoice at this winning streak. They can celebrate while it lasts. Every Ajáléonílébotièléyìn has something he is forbidden to eat. Tinubu lost Lagos in the 2023 presidential election. That means that he is not totally unbeatable. What was that forbidden edible the Lagos voters gave to him during that election? That is the missing link those who want the president out of power in 2027 should find. I don’t get how people call their affliction their saviour! Something is wrong, somewhere!
Just like Governor Makinde posited, my worry over this disastrous move to a one-party State is the implication of absolute power in the hands of a pseudo democrat as we have in President Tinubu. If this venture scales through; if Tinubu succeeds in the total annihilation of the opposition, the impending calamity will be worse than a tsunami! Nobody will be spared! President Tinubu can win the next round of elections; I don’t have any problem with that. My concern is that he should not, by any means, be allowed to win as a sole proprietor of Nigeria. That will be an unmitigated disaster!
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Tunde Smooth, Opudu, Lawuru To Grace Ijaw Media Conference As Preparation Enters Top Gear
All is now set for the second edition of the Ijaw Media Conference scheduled to hold on December 17, 2025 in Warri, Delta State. The first edition was held in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital on December 13, 2024, attracting dignitaries both far and near in the Ijaw.
The second edition of the annual conference with the theme: ‘Safeguarding Niger Delta’s Natural Resources for Future Generations’, is organised by the Ijaw Publishers Forum.
Amongst dignitaries to grace this year’s conference are the Bolowei of Niger Delta, Chief Tunde Smooth, who is expected as father of the day while
the Chairman Delta, Waterways and Land Security, Chief Boro Opudu, and Delta-born billionaire, High Chief Promise Lawuru are expected as guests of honour respectively.
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The Chairman, Central Working Committee of the conference Arex Akemotubo, said the event was aimed at discussing the challenging facing the Niger Delta region and the Ijaw nation in particular, and charting a course through the media.
According to Akemotubo, this year’s theme was chosen out of concern for the growing strain on the region’s land and waters, and discussing the way forward.
The Publisher of WaffiTV stressed that the Ijaw Publishers Forum is poised in strengthening public understanding, supporting honest reportage, and encourage leaders to protect what the Niger Delta holds for the next generation.
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OPINION: Idiocracy, Senators And Children Of Food
By Lasisi Olagunju
For ten clean years (November 2015 to 7 October, 2025), Mahmud Yakubu was the chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). On 29 November, 2025, fifty three days after he left that impartial office, he became a beneficiary of the election he refereed; he was made an ambassador by the president.
Yakubu is not a stand-alone actor. From July 2017 to December 2021, Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda was the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Benue State. On 24 October, 2024 he became a minister of the Federal Republic. The man’s blessing blossomed on 24 July, 2025 when he was appointed the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress.
Yakubu and Yilwatda are teachers. They are getting their rewards here and now on earth; not in heaven. There should be many more like them inside and outside INEC. The electoral commission is now well and properly fixed inside the chambers of power.
We wait to see who will match their regiment: INEC and politicians of all hues, gunners and guns and the court mass into a mega-camp. Has this happened? Has it not? You still wonder why every governor, every senator, their mistresses and concubines and paramours take their tent into the IDP camp named APC? Samuel Butler was right: Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” It is no longer necessary for the ruling caste to scheme, manoeuvre and listen to the above counsel of Sun Tzu and his ‘The Art of War.’ Resistance is dead, opposition is buried, so why should the president’s battle plans be made again under the cover of darkness?
President Bola Tinubu does not pretend. Piss into the stream if you can; defecate into the pond. It is the lily-livered who asks toad and frog and their cousins to close their eyes before doing so. This is where we are.
But, this piece is not about those defecators. This is about the hollow men in Nigeria’s hallowed chambers. This is on our senatorial children of food; large, privileged boars in our Animal Farm.
Child of food is omo oúnje in Yoruba. When you take your seat at every dining table; when you become uncontrollable or overly excited at the sight of food, you are omo oúnje, and you get the label. And, you do not have to be a child to be so called. Adults who forget themselves when food appears are children.
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Senate president, Godswill Akpabio, read a letter to his colleagues last week, a dinner invitation from the First Lady to the Senate. The ‘overly excited’ Senate President concluded the reading on a note of self-revelation. He said: “This is like an invitation by a mother to her children. I wish you sumptuous meal and fruitful discussion…We all meet there on Friday.”
Our senators are children. Now we know.
I did not hear any of the other 108 senators say their president was wrong; that an arm of government paid and pampered to vet and check the acts and actions of the executive should not be found snoring in the kitchen of the Villa. They all love their status as nurslings; they flaunt it. Shame on the enemy who are jealous of the chummy, yummy relationship between Nigeria’s lawmakers and the president’s kitchen.
It is most likely that the First Lady rejoices at having almighty senators, big men and women of power, as her children. The Villa is a shrine; it exists to be worshipped by big men, small men; sycophantic sucklings. The air that keeps the bees there humming is flattery; its synonym is unctuous praise.
Flattery, my dictionary says, is “excessive and insincere praise, given especially to further one’s own interests.” That is the ‘gold’ coin which Akpabio offered the First Lady.
The author of ‘Maximes’ and ‘Memoirs’, François de la Rochefoucauld (1613 –1680) has a deprecating line: “Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.” No one should tell anyone that accepting and spending fake, adulatory notes have consequences. “He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer” (Timon in Shakespeare’s ‘Timon of Athens’, Act I, Scene 1).
Those who enjoy flattery deserve the consequences of sycophancy. That is what Timon says in the above quote, in bitterness and in regret.
Why would adults we invested with legislative powers look at themselves and say they are children of the president’s wife? And what are the implications for the recipient of the (un)solicited sycophancy?
One morning, a fox was walking through the woods looking for something to eat. He looked up and saw a crow sitting on a tree branch. He had seen many crows before, but this one caught his eye because she was holding a piece of cheese in her beak.
The fox immediately thought, “Perfect! That cheese will make a great breakfast.”
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He walked to the base of the tree and looked up at the crow. “Good morning, beautiful bird!” he called out.
The crow looked down at him with suspicion. She didn’t trust him, so she kept her beak tightly closed around the cheese and said nothing.
The fox continued, pretending to admire her. “What a lovely bird you are! Your feathers shine, your body is perfect, and your wings are wonderful. A bird as perfect as you must also have a beautiful voice. If you would just sing one song, I would gladly call you the Queen of all Birds.”
Hearing all these sweet compliments, the crow forgot her doubts, and even forgot the cheese she was holding. Wanting to prove she deserved the praise, she opened her beak to let out her loudest caw.
Of course, the cheese fell straight down—right into the waiting mouth of the fox.
“Thank you,” said the fox, smiling as he walked away. “Your voice is great; if only you added brains and caution to all your other qualifications, you would make a great queen.”
Aesop, ancestral teller of the original of the story above, did not forget to add that its moral is that people who listen to flattery often pay the price for it.
That story and the caution it conveys are for the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, because of whose food Senator Godswill Akpabio pronounced her “mother” and all senators her “children” last week.
English philosopher and statesman, Francis Bacon, in ‘The Advancement of Learning’, wrote of a senator who once stood up in a full Roman debate and proposed that Tiberius, their emperor, be declared a god. The philosopher used this incident to illustrate what he called the lowest form of sycophancy. Even in that world of excessive praise, Roman senators never thought of calling themselves the children of the emperor. For a modern democratic legislature to refer to the spouse of the head of the executive as “mother” is worse than the flattery Bacon mocked.
What Akpabio blithely said is casual but deep. It collapses the constitutional separation of powers into a family drama where elected lawmakers become puny dependents seeking favour. If ancient Rome saw such gestures as the death of democracy and republican dignity, then the Nigerian Senate’s metaphor is an even clearer sign of institutional self-infantilisation.
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Akpabio and his Senate’s excessive fawing inadvertently situate their chamber in Jean Piaget’s immature stage of infantile thinking, one ruled by deference and emotional dependence.
Yet, an independent legislature is the reason we say democracy is better than all other forms of government, including military rule.
‘The American Mercury’ was an American magazine which was on the newsstand from 1924 to 1981. Its July 1937 edition contains an article with the headline: ‘Crooks in the Legislature.’ The magazine withheld the name of the author of the article “for obvious reasons” but said it published his story “as a factual record, believing it typical of most state legislatures.” From the eight-page article I picked this paragraph in celebration of the legislative content of our democracy: “Putting summary ahead of detail, I may say that ten percent of legislators come perilously close to being racketeers; twenty-five percent are primarily venal in their attitude toward such legislation as is capable of being turned to advantage; another twenty-five percent will accept money for their votes on bills which do not vitally affect the general public and in which they have no personal interest; another twenty-five percent, who do not accept money, are moved often by personal and group relationships, including retainers, business arrangements, political advantage, patronage demands, etc.; and about fifteen percent are, or think they are, above suspicion of judging legislation other than on its merits –although I never have met one who could take an utterly detached viewpoint even when unconscious of personal interest. Unadulterated altruism has yet to come within my purview. Paradoxically, some of the crookedest legislators in my state are among the ablest in their consideration of measures.” That was democracy and the parliament in the United States of 88 years ago. Take a look at what we have in 2025 Nigeria, you may add the US.
Senator Akpabio and other children of food are not alone in the kitchen with the one who holds the yam and the knife of this lavish feast. The press is the fourth estate of the realm; it routinely gets compelled (or it compels itself) to do what Akpabio did. The judiciary is the third leg of the dining table; it stands up for power and privileges and, for their songs of praise.
In ‘How Democracies Die’, Harvard political scientists, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, want to know if the American democracy is in danger. And, in every word, every sentence and every paragraph of that 2018 book are hints that suggest an affirmative answer to that question. They say: “This is how we tend to think of democracies dying: at the hands of men with guns…But (now) there is another way to break a democracy. It is less dramatic but equally destructive. Democracies may die at the hands, not of generals, but of elected leaders—presidents or prime ministers who subvert the very process that brought them to power.”
Lagbaja, the masked musician, sang at the beginning of this democracy that it must not die (democracy yi ko gbodo ku). But, if this democracy was a child, it would qualify as a foolish child. And a foolish child is as useless, lifeless as a dead child. There is a Yoruba proverb that explains it deeply: A child lacks wisdom, and they say the child must not die; what else kills faster than lack of wisdom? Dying is not the absence of life; it is the lack of useful existence.
Senators are children of the president. “Are we living in the age of stupid? The era of the idiot? The answer of course is yes, with examples of monstrous moronicism everywhere.” That is the verdict of film critic and Guardian Australia writer, Luke Buckmaster, four years ago. He thinks democracy has become a government of idiots, by idiots for idiots. “If this is already the era of the idiot, what comes next?” He asks, and the answer, according to him, is: “An Idiocracy.” Idiocracy is a pick on the title of Mike Judge’s 2006 dystopian comedy.
Do not hesitate to apply the above to my lot and to your lot. The ways and strays of this democracy remind me of the famous ending of T. S. Eliot’s ‘Hollow Men’, a 1925 poem about a state in paralysis: “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.”
Democracy dies where the legislature celebrates its becoming the executive’s puny child, mother hen’s brood. That is what the “children” in our Red Chamber do. The rot is complete when you add to that tragedy the press paying to play with the Villa, and the judiciary upstanding in deference to the president’s personal anthem: ‘On Your Mandate We Shall Stand’.
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FULL LIST: FG Lists Nigerian Veterans For Honours To Celebrate 100 Years Of Aviation Industry
The Federal Government of Nigeria has unveiled Nigerian veterans and distinguished aviators to be honoured for pioneering contributions that have shaped Nigeria’s aviation industry over the past century.
The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, announced the event in an X post on Saturday, describing the awardees as “icons whose vision and dedication laid the groundwork for Nigeria’s aviation success.”
He also shared photos of some of the honourees ahead of the event slated for Monday, December 1, 2025 at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre in Abuja.
According to him, the recognition is part of activities marking 100 years of aviation in Nigeria, tracing the sector’s evolution from colonial era to its present status as a critical contributor to the country’s economy.
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“The first ever aircraft to land in Nigeria was in Kano in 1925. As a result, we are celebrating 100 years of aviation in Nigeria this year. On Monday, December 1, 2025, at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Center, Abuja, we shall celebrate this milestone with a number of performances and events, including honouring veterans of the aviation industry in the last 100 years. We are inviting all aviation stakeholders to the event,” he wrote.
Below are the list of some of the Nigerian veterans who have shaped the aviation industry, as shared by the Aviation Minister:
Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, founder of Okada Air.
Late Alhaji Ahmadu Dan kabo, founder of Kabo Air.
Capt Robert Hayes, Nigeria’s first certified pilot.
Chief Mbazulike Amechi, former Minister of Aviation and instrumental in establishing Nigerian Airways.
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Chief Allen Ifechukwu Onyeama, Air Peace founder, promoted local content and invested in Nigerian youths’ training.
Dr Emmanuel Enekwechi, contributed to the aviation industry’s growth.
Capt. August Okpe, founder and CEO of Okpe Aviation Services, Nigeria’s first indigenous aviation engineering company.
Sen. Hadi Sirika, former Minister of Aviation, initiated policies like the national carrier launch.
Capt Rabiu Hamisu Yadudu, pioneered Nigeria’s aviation industry and transformed airports into world-class facilities.
Capt Ado Sanusi
Chief Wale Babalakin
Sir Joseph Arumemi
Olumuyiwa Bernard Aliu
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Capt Dele Ore
Capt Wale Makinde
Capt Ibrahim Mshella
Capt Dapo Olumide
Ms Bimbo Sosina
Capt Benoni Briggs
Mrs Deola Olukunle
Dr Thomas Ogunbangbe
Capt Edward Boyo
Dr Gbenga Olowo
Elder Dr Soji Amusan
Engr Awogbemi Clement
Sen Musa Adede
Georg Eder MBA
Capt Prex Porbeni
Mrs Folashade Odutola
Dr Taiwo Afolabi OON
Capt Fola Adeola
Dr Seindemi Fadeni
Capt Chinyere Kali
Harold Demure
Akin Olateru
Mr George Urensi
Mrs Deola Yesufu
Engr Babatunde Obadofin
Dr Ayo Obilana
Capt Felix Iheanacho
Capt Peter Adenihun
Capt Jonathan Ibrahim
Pa Odeleye AC
Capt Toju Ogidi
Pa Abel Kalu Ukonu
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