{"id":21649,"date":"2019-02-24T15:05:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=21649"},"modified":"2019-02-24T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T15:05:26","slug":"life-the-vanity-side-of-it-by-bobson-gbinije","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=21649","title":{"rendered":"LIFE: THE VANITY SIDE OF IT by Bobson Gbinije"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hide-if-no-js\"><a id=\"set-post-thumbnail\" class=\"thickbox\" href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-admin\/media-upload.php?post_id=21649&amp;type=image&amp;TB_iframe=1\" aria-describedby=\"set-post-thumbnail-desc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 \" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Okowa-2019-Gubernatorial-Campaign-online-banner-ad-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"838\" height=\"104\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I just had an extensive phone conversation with someone I reverence as an elder brother. This writeup is premised on that phone conversation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I remember 1999 vividly, I remember Eagle Square and what happened there on the 29th of May, 1999. 20 years after, so many things have happened.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">From Eagle Square where power changed hands in 1999, I have seen many who were present on that day but today, have been forgotten in idle permanent homes of their graves.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I remember how Nelson Mandela walked into the venue and the ovation that followed and with my same eyes I saw him in a casket.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes Stella Obasanjo rose to affluence and influence and with my eyes I saw her being driven out of power in a casket.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes Desire Kabilla who was also at Eagle Square fell to the bullets of his bodyguard in DR Congo. A former minister of Health, Prof Ransome Kuti was buried.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes Chuba Okadigbo rose, fell and died. Abubakar Rimi and Alex Ekwueme who contested a Presidential primaries with incumbent Obasanjo in 2003 at the same Eagle Square had their funerals organized.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes, &#8220;almighty&#8221; Tony Aneni laid in-state helplessly in Benin. Prof Dora Akunyili, the strong woman who was everywhere, fell on a street of India.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes, &#8220;Evil Genius&#8221; begin to wear canvass on an agbada on a wheelchair in Minna as he watches life without his once powerful wife, Maryam.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes Edwin Ume Ezeoke was buried, Gen. Victor Malu&#8217;s obituary was in the news.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes, a Sultan fell from the sky, the remains of the owner of Bolingo Hotel was seen at Lisa village.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes Bola Ige fell, Suntai crashed and died, once landlords of Plateau and Taraba, Dariye and Nyame walked into prisons.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes, almighty Olabode George went and came out of prisons. Justice Salami heard the news of the death of Justice Katsina Alu.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes, a Landlord fell in Kwara and a strongman won election in Kogi but never lived to hear his victory announcement.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes, Azazi reigned and fell, Yakowa never lived to tell a story. Oronto Douglas who was once a powerful man behind the throne was buried.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes, Yar&#8217;adua came and fizzled out of power like two of his ministers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes, Solomon Lar that sat that day as PDP Chairman, a symbol of power and affluence was buried on a plateau.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my eyes, I saw strong men rise and fall very cheaply. If this writeup should teach us anything, let it be known that power is transient. God gives who he wants to give. He says &#8220;I will have mercy on who I want to have mercy on&#8221;.<\/div>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=18010&amp;ad_type=81&amp;rl=1800\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">To those of you today in power, where would you be in the next twenty years as I was in 1999? In 2039 when names like Buhari, Atiku, Amaechi, Wike, Saraki, Ekweremadu, Tambuwal, Mark are mentioned what would that child write about them then?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Thank you @Victor Oche Elias for the call today, it opened my eyes to other realities of life. You were there when PDP was formed at number 48 Mambila Street in Abuja in 1998 as the youngest fellow in that room on that day, then as a PA to Prof Jerry Gana. All those I mentioned and more I can&#8217;t remember or know what happened in your own eyes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">As we approach life, especially these elections, have it in mind that POLITICAL POWER IS NOT PERMANENT. THIS SAME POWER HAS CONSUMED MEN, DESTROYED MARRIAGES, CUT SHORT DREAMS, ENDED RELATIONSHIPS, BETRAYED TRUSTS AND KILLED FELLOW HUMANS&#8230; Is it worth dying for?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">May God bless and help you to understand the message behind this.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">May God help and bless Nigeria. Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria!!!<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I just had an extensive phone conversation with someone I reverence as an elder brother. This writeup is premised on that phone conversation. I remember 1999 vividly, I remember Eagle Square and what happened there on the 29th of May, 1999. 20 years after, so many things have happened. From Eagle Square where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[3747,5358,4578,5359],"class_list":["post-21649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-chuba-okadigbo","tag-desire-kabilla","tag-oronto-douglas","tag-prof-ransome-kuti"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/king.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-5Db","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21651,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions\/21651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}