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  • Aisha Yesufu attacks Obi over Ekweremadu’s UK travails

    Sociopolitical activist Aisha Yesufu has frowned at  the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP) for ‘standing with’ the Ike Ekweremadu and his family following their arrest in London over allegations of organ harvesting.

    Aisha said Obi is reacting like president Buhari over the matter

    Recall that the former Deputy Senate President, Dr. Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu were arrested in the UK for allegedly facilitating the travel of another person with a view to exploit them and harvest their organs.

    They were arraigned before a magistrate in a UK court and subsequently denied bail after pleading not guilty.

    And in reaction to the news of the Ekweremmadu’s arrest, Obi in a tweet expressed his sympathies and prayed for their daughter’s healing while calling for justice to take its course.

    Obi’s  tweet reads, “My family and I are with the Ekweremadu’s over their travail. We join all men of goodwill in praying for the healing of their daughter and commit them into God’s hand for justice to be done.”

    However, Aisha Yesufu feels Obi’s reaction wasn’t well explained and sounded like one of Buhari’s statements, which she found difficult to interpret for the last seven years.

    She wondered why Obi never mentioned the 15-year-old boy involved in the story.

    Aisha tweeted, “This is not good! I have spent 7 years getting an explanation from others of what Buhari actually means to say and for others to start doing it again with Obi is absolute BS!

    You can stand with the Ekweremadus and also stand with the boy. You can ask for justice for both

    “You can feel empathy and sympathy for the girl that is sick and also feel concern for the boy.”

  • Aisha Yesufu blasts Prof. Osinbajo, calls him a betrayer

    Popular socio-political activist  on social media Aisha yesufu has slammed Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, describing him as a betrayer.

    She further explained that she didn’t label Osinbajo a betrayal because he contested against Tinubu but the fact that he betrayed the entire people of the  country.

    She posited that Osinbajo whom many placed in high esteem in 2015 and 2019  later turned his back on Nigerians.

    She stressed that many Nigerians actually voted for the All Progressives Congress in 2015 simply because of Osinbajo’s face on the campaign posters but he allegedly failed them.

    Aisha made these claims via her official twitter handle on Wednesday shortly after the APC special Convention held at Eagles Square,Abuja.

    Her tweet reads: “Osinbajo @ProfOsinbajo betrayed the people, not Tinubu. Many voted for the APC ticket in 2015 because of Osinbajo.

    “He went in there and turned his back on the people. He decided to side with oppression and suppression!”

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Tinubu, scored 1,271 to defeat his closest challenger, Rotimi Amaechi, who polled 316. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, came  third in the primary, polling 235.

     

  • Thug statement: Remi Tinubu looks down on people–Aisha Yesufu

    Thug statement: Remi Tinubu looks down on people–Aisha Yesufu

    Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, on Thursday, attacked Mrs. Remi Tinubu, wife of All Progressives Congress chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for exhibiting disgusting haughtiness on Wednesday when she called a woman, a thug during a public hearing of the constitutional review.

    Yesufu made this known in a chat with Punch.

    TheNewsGuru had earlier reported that a trending video showed Tinubu representing Lagos Central was involved in a shouting bout with some Nigerians who attended the event at the Marriot Hotel in Lagos.

    Tinubu is leading the Senate Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution in the South-West.

    However, there was an uproar when a yet-to-be-identified woman was not allowed entry into the venue. The woman, who complained about her exclusion from the venue, was criticized by Mrs. Tinubu for being “rude”.

    Some Nigerians at the event then asked the senator to apologise to her but Mrs. Tinubu said, “I will not apologise for what I said. I saw it and I said it.”

    In her reaction, Yesufu said, “It’s so much disgusting arrogance from a Senator who is an elected official to speak to citizens in that manner and this is not the first time Remi Tinubu is doing this. She looks down on people. I’m sure she is used to people who come to her, rolling on the floor and she thinks everybody will bow before her family. That is why she keeps on carrying this arrogance around.

    “It is good that the citizens called her out there and asked her to apologise and this is what needs to happen, we need to bring down this arrogance that these politicians have.

    “What has been her contribution since she has been in the Senate? What has she contributed to national issues? What has she contributed to women issues? Nothing. She is just there just because she is there. People who get to power out of tokenism have this kind of arrogance that comes from emptiness. It is absolutely annoying and disgraceful that she behaves that way not knowing that she is there to serve the people.”

     

  • Alleged assault: Falana, Jibrin, Aisha Yesufu demand sack, prosecution of CCT Chairman

    Alleged assault: Falana, Jibrin, Aisha Yesufu demand sack, prosecution of CCT Chairman

    Eminent Nigerians have condemned the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Umar Danladi for physically assaulting a security guard at Banex Plaza in Wuse, Abuja.

    They also called for his immediate dismissal and prosecution by the Nigerian government.

    Recall TheNewsGuru (TNG) reported how Mr Umar was caught in a viral video clip kicking and slapping a security guard.

    Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has tasked the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, to take an action on the assault allegation leveled against Danladi Umar.

    He made this suggestion while speaking at a webinar orgainsed by the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC). He urged the NBA to take the matter seriously.

    Falana said, “Just last night, and this is in the social media now, the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal was fighting in the market,”

    He added, “He (Mr Umar) slapped the security man in the market, and this has been shown to the whole world. The NBA must take this matter very seriously.”

    Speaking on Umar’s shameful act, Professor Ibrahim Jibrin, who is highly revered in the northern academia space, unequivocally demanded for the immediate sack of the chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).

    Jibrin made the call on Wednesday in a tweet on his verified Twitter handle @JibrinIbrahim17.

    According to the Prof. the CCT Chairman lack decorum and doesn’t deserve the highly revered post of a CCT Chairman.

    Prof. Jibrin Ibrahim was a member of the Electoral Reform Committee during the administration of former President Umaru Musa Yar’adua. He has observed elections in Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi, Togo, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia and Guinea for the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

    Similarly, Nigerian Socio-Political activist, and Co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, Aisha Yesufu, demanded Umar’s sack over the ‘Biafran Boys’ tag labelled on his victim of assault by his media aide.

    Responding on Wednesday in a video posted on Twitter, Aisha said Danladi did not have “the neutrality to manage that position”.

    “What the heck is going on? I mean all of this nonsense have to stop. That man should either be made to resign, be sacked or whatever! If he can think of a group of people and label them Biafran boys then he doesn’t have the neutrality to manage that position.

    “I am absolutely shocked. Did the chairman of the CCT Justice Danladi Umar just referred to people as Biafran boys? Really? What?

    “What a freaking hell is going on in Nigeria. In his mental mind, in his thoughts, he refers to people as Biafran Boys. Yet he has the guts to also put it in black and white. Oh my goodness!!!

    “There is so much and absolute disrespect in the country from charlatans, hooligans – a let my people go mentality. If it was based on merit and the same capacity that is used for everyone when they are entering primary, secondary schools and all of that.

    “You have cut off marks, some people have 4 or 6 or whatever, if it was based on competence that employment was being given, would he have been the justice of the code of conduct tribunal?

    “When he cannot even conduct himself in public. He assaulted someone, and then he comes to make a statement and then on that statement he poured petrol on fire,” she said.

    In an official statement released by his spokesman on Tuesday, Danladi’s camp alleged that the security man was rude and had threatened the CCT Chairman.

  • Insecurity: Buhari’s body language emboldens terrorists to strike – Aisha Yesufu

    Insecurity: Buhari’s body language emboldens terrorists to strike – Aisha Yesufu

    The co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls group, Aisha Yesufu, has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari over his handling of the increasing spate of abductions in the country.

    Speaking on a monitored Channels Television programme on Friday evening on the recent abduction in Zamfara State and President Buhari’s statement to solve the escalating security challenges, Yesufu said: “what I make of the statement is absolutely nothing”.

    “We are used to a president whose words mean nothing. He says one thing, and another thing happens,” she added.

    Speaking of the abduction of 317 female students at the Jangebe Government Girls Secondary School in Zamfara State on Friday, she said the President’s body language had been an enabler to the perpetrators.

    “The body language of President Muhammadu Buhari enables the terrorists. They know that we have an ineffective President and Commander-In-Chief, we have an incompetent one a clueless one, who does not even bother about what is happening in the country”, the BBOG Co-convener said.

    “Yesterday we buried seven military officers, the best that we have, the nation was in mourning and the President was a few minutes away from where they were and the president didn’t even turn up, what does that signify? It Is high time we begin to make serious demands on the president”.

    “This is such a sad moment especially with the fact that our government has not learnt anything in spite of almost seven years of advocacy that we’ve been calling on the government to do the right thing and to do the needful to ensure that the citizens are protected.

    “Before the Chibok Girl’s abduction, there was actually the Guniyadi killings where 29 boys were slaughtered in their schools”.

    Speaking about what steps should be taken, Yesufu said “It is not in our place to give the way forward. His (the President’s) salaries are being paid for it, his needs are being taken care of. He was voted to give the way forward.

  • I told my husband I would fulfill his sexual fantasy on wedding night- Aisha Yesufu

    I told my husband I would fulfill his sexual fantasy on wedding night- Aisha Yesufu

    Aisha Yesufu, a Nigerian socio-political activist, and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Movement has opened up on what transpired between herself and her hubby on their wedding night.

    The outspoken orator in a chat with BBC Pidgin said: “I was the one who asked my husband out

    ”The way I met my husband is a long story. I was the one who asked him out. I arranged it so he can see me as a wife since he wasn’t seeing me as a wife. He would tell you I don’t behave like a wife, I behave like a girlfriend.”

    Speaking further Yesufu added that when they got married, she told her husband her availability for sex and willingness to fulfill any of his sexual fantasies.

    “One thing my husband would always say is that no time he comes that I tell him no. You know I am an Edo woman, we have to do it.

    “On our wedding night, I told my husband that anyhow you want it, ask me. Any fantasy you have, I am available because that is my primary job, I do not delegate it. Every other thing I delegate but for that one work, I do not joke about it.”

    She told people who call her a prostitute that she is a prostitute with just one customer, who is her husband.

    ”You know some people do call me prostitute. I always say I am a prostitute that has just one customer,” she said.

     

  • Trending: Aisha Yesufu fires back as critics attack her on Twitter for supporting LGBT rights

    Trending: Aisha Yesufu fires back as critics attack her on Twitter for supporting LGBT rights

    Prominent activist, Aisha Yesufu has come under attack on Twitter for publicly supporting rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Nigeria.

    The activist had on Monday took to her verified account on the micro-blogging platform to educate her followers on why gay rights should be allowed in Nigeria, stressing that homosexuality isn’t new and was freely practised in the country for hundreds of years.

    She added that she had witnessed same-sex marriages in Nigeria as far back as in the early 80s.

    She tweeted: “You do not need anyone liking your choice of sexuality. All you need is being given the right to practise your sexuality. Homosexuality was freely practised in Nigeria for hundreds of years and I witnessed same-sex marriages in the 80s.“So calm down, it is not a new discovery.”

    The activist’s tweet, however, provoked some of her followers and other Nigerians on the social app who condemned her views and hurled her curses and invectives.

    Some of the Twitter users opined that it is wrong for her to show support for something that God and her religion forbids. But, Aisha was resolute, she took her time to answer her critics in turns.

    See snippets of the bickering, Aisha’s responses

    See their exchanges below…

  • [Videos] Arise TV suffers signal problem as Aisha Yesufu calls Buhari ‘biggest hooligan’ in Nigeria

    [Videos] Arise TV suffers signal problem as Aisha Yesufu calls Buhari ‘biggest hooligan’ in Nigeria

    Civil rights activist, Aisha Yesufu on Tuesday shook Nigeria media space after labeling President Muhmmadu Buhari as ‘biggest hooligan’ in Nigeria.

    Aisha who made the remarks while speaking on Arise TV was reacting to Buhari’s comment on acts of hooliganism in protests.

    Moments after Aisha labeled Buhari as a ‘hooligan’, she was reportedly yanked off the TV under the guise of network challenge.

    However, Aisha took to her Twitter page to shower more invectives on the Buhari-led government

    Recall TheNewsGuru (TNG), yesterday reported that Buhari warned that any act of hooliganism hiding behind lawful and peaceful protests will be dealt with decisively to ensure peace and stability in the country.

    There have been reports that the #EndSARS protest against police brutality, which was quashed by law enforcement two months ago, was going to be reignited this week.

  • Borno killing: Activists, Aisha Yesufu, Adeyanju, others humiliate Buhari on social media, demand his resignation

    Borno killing: Activists, Aisha Yesufu, Adeyanju, others humiliate Buhari on social media, demand his resignation

    Nigerian activists, Aisha Yesufu, Deji Adeyanju, among several other concerned Nigerians on Sunday lampooned President Muhammadu Buhari over the appalling security situation of the country.

    Reacting to the killing of no less than 43 farmers by Boko Haram terrorists in a farming community in Borno State, Yesufu said a mannequin has better uses than Buhari.

    On the other side, Deji Adeyanju who condemned the silence on the part of the oppoisitional government amidst several killings, adbuctions in Nigeria posited that President Muhammadu Buhari should either resign or be impeached from office.

    “The number of people abducted on Kaduna road alone is enough to make a president resign or be impeached. Several sources say sometimes over 100 people are abducted on that road and the issues go unreported.” He noted.

    In a series of tweets,Aisha Yesufu said Buhari’s only achievement was to keep Nigerians down.

    She called on all Nigerians to unite and fight so that they do not become the next victims of the President’s incompetence.

    She said, “Human beings like us are being killed. They will kill us too when they are done with them. South or North, no one is spared. Can we stop categorising deaths into South and North? Nigerians are being killed and it is not okay.

    Other reactions from Nigerians:

  • Aisha Yesufu makes BBC’s 100 Most Influential Women list of 2020

    Aisha Yesufu makes BBC’s 100 Most Influential Women list of 2020

    Activist and co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign, Aisha Yesufu has been listed amongst the BBC’s 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world.

    The BBC on Tuesday, November 24, 2020, revealed its list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2020.

    This year 100 Women is highlighting those who are leading change and making a difference during these turbulent times.

    Aisha Yesufu is known for demanding good governance in Nigeria.

    She is co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign, launched in response to the 2014 abduction of more than 200 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria, by the Boko Haram terrorist group.

    Her role in the recently concluded #EndSARS protests cannot be side played as she was made the face of the protest which saw Nigerians take to the streets to demand greater accountability from the Nigerian Police Force, beginning with the dissolution of the controversial Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) members of which have been accused of the murder, rape, robbery of civilians and extra-judicial killings.

    Aisha who was born on December 12, 1974, in Kano State, Northwest Nigeria, advises women to “fully and unapologetically take their place in the world. Women should stop asking for a place at the table – they should create their own table.”

    She was born by Edo parents but raised in Kano and has always shared her difficult experiences of being a girl-child in a heavily patriarchal environment.

    In her words, “By the time I was 11 years old, I did not have any female friends because all of them had been married off but I wanted to be educated and leave the ghetto. Most of my mates were almost grandmothers when I married at 24.”

    Others on the list are four-time Grammy award winner, Angélique Kidjo, who advocates on behalf of children as a UNICEF ambassador, Sanna Marin, who leads Finland’s all-female coalition government, Michelle Yeoh, star of the new Avatar and Marvel films and Sarah Gilbert, who heads the Oxford University research into a coronavirus vaccine, as well as, Jane Fonda, a climate activist and actress.