VP Osinbajo did not Lock down Calabar - Media aide | Welcome to Linda Ikeji's Blog

LI_Mobile_Leaderboard_1

Friday, 26 June 2015

VP Osinbajo did not Lock down Calabar - Media aide

...press statement from the VP's office in response to this. Read below
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was in Calabar and Lagos today -Thursday June 25 paying tribute to two eminent Nigerians whose lives reflect the very virtues of integrity, trustworthiness and social justice, which can lift our dear nation. The one is Late Justice P.O.E Bassey and Dr. Christopher Kolade.
He arrived Calabar at about 10:30am attending the Justice P.O.E Bassey Memorial Lecture, at the University of Calabar, and left the town about 3:30pm, heading for Lagos where he spoke at the Convention for Integrity 3rd Annual Lecture.
Prof Osinbajo was well received in Calabar witnessed by the warmth shown him and his delegation by the people and government of Cross River State.

Claims that the town was in a lock down because of his visit is just another mischievous and baseless report from some of the same social media quarters that misled the nation in the past about his purported exclusion from security meetings. The Vice President did not even spend ten hours in Calabar and could not have locked down the town, as his convoy moved freely among the people in regular traffic as he normally does.

I personally observed several people go about their normal activities and businesses without any hinderance.

He has since returned to Abuja after his trip to both cities.

Signed

Laolu Akande

44 comments:

  1. Whatever!

    Your comment will be visible after approval

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Hiss! How come he personally observed people go abt their activities when he can not b more than one place@a time.

      Biko he should park well, and I wonder who he is trying to cover up for. Nonsense!

      Delete
    2. Hiss! How come he personally observed people go abt their activities when he can not b more than one place@a time.

      Biko he should park well, and I wonder who he is trying to cover up for. Nonsense!

      Delete
    3. Hiss! How come he personally observed people go abt their activities when he can not b more than one place@a time.

      Biko he should park well, and I wonder who he is trying to cover up for. Nonsense!

      Delete
    4. I never expected them to admit to it. So whatever, duuhhh.



      #TeamBlessed#

      Delete
    5. Alloy, Royal Madness, Adaobi the she goat, u people can go nd hug transformer as u all re feeling the pains. As VP said that his visit didn't lock down the town of the state yesterday.

      Delete
  2. I knew it was a stunt by bad belle people. Linda take note!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Una get time to dey respond to bad belle PDP shameless people. Our eye don clear. Change is here. Whatever they say we won't believe. I just hope The APC doesn't misuse the confidence we have in them. I'm specifically referring to Bukola Saraki, The igbo governor, Rochas and their co Bad Eggs. I do not stand to be corrected.





      *** mynameisSkelewu

      Delete
  3. Yes oh. Cos I was in calabar an i didn't experience any lock down. Was thinking twas another Calabar you were about.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank vry much @michelle, God bless u. Bad belle pple no go die well

      Delete
  4. a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said..
    .
    Either this media people are crazy or insane.. Didnt they read that trader complain and hw bitter he was abi that man wey complain sound as if this politics of a thing concern am neh.... Dude was concern about his business and hw that lock down deprieve him of his daily bread this is what this people have to put up.... Shame on them though...
    .
    .
    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

    ReplyDelete
  5. Laolu Akande,fear God oo.you know what you just said is a lie,you knw it

    ReplyDelete
  6. So sad that ppl are making up stories for their own selfish gains. Quit it.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Hmnnnn! There was pic evidence na, maybe 10 hrs was exaggerated,

    ReplyDelete
  8. Lies from the pit hell! Highway was blocked even tho it wasn't in the route he will follow, the entire hospital road was blocked, inside school was barricaded too by eye-service police men, etagbor was a serious traffic mess. He shouldn't come to calabar again please. We experienced traffic for the first time in our quiet lives here. Something that he would have been carried from the airport quietly without siren and we wouldn't have even noticed the VP is in calabar but no they had to use siren, block roads, harrass drivers and drive roughly to tell us that he has arrived. Useless bunch of people. See how we were trekking from dept to main gate cos the buses weren't available cos of barricades. I can't even rant enough. Nobody uses sirens here and the governor will even pass u and u won't knw but these abuja touts had to come and disrupt the peace of my calabar.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. God bless u... I had to trek from mcc to rabana imagine d distance

      Delete
    2. Shut up! Agbaya Anon 9: 07, stop talking rubbish here, do u know what ur brother Badluck Jonathan did 2 us in benin city? Whenever he visit benin wen he was a president that day will be a bad day to the whole benin city. The last visit he visit benin my car was jamb by one barister. U re here talking nonsense! Mtcheeew!

      Delete
    3. Wat do u guys expect nd where una ddey take am personal, dis stuff happens anytime a dignitary enters a state +instead of make una happy, una dey form vex*hiss

      Delete
  9. Ok oooooo, two sides to till tale

    ReplyDelete
  10. There was a major lock down

    ReplyDelete
  11. That's a lie because all major roads in the metropolitan city leading to unical were completely locked down. I was a victim along Ibb way to Etagbor round about if you know Calabar well

    ReplyDelete
  12. Ok. APC with liar Mohammed . Go and address the fight for power in the legistilative house before one of them will collapse

    ReplyDelete
  13. There is a popular saying that in every rumour there is element of truth. Why should a visit of a citizen bring havoc to people

    ReplyDelete
  14. I commented on that post yesterday, the road wasn't blocked because of the Vice president or government officials.
    The deserted road was because of heavy rain.
    It rained heavily from morning till afternoon (1:30pm). Only those in Calabar will understand how Calabar rain disrupts movement.
    I passed through the so called inter connecting blocked road(high way) from Lemna road in the morning.
    My sibling went through that way to and back from school in the central area(watt market axis).

    ReplyDelete
  15. Didnt fall for that report yestday.......


    Moye says so via BB Passport...Courtesy LIB......

    ReplyDelete
  16. Who is deceiving who actually??

    ReplyDelete
  17. You guys should keep lying! Nigerians are now well aware of ur antics! Stupid liars!

    ReplyDelete
  18. The business man Asuquo's complaint might have stemmed from the rain and the guy that sent Linda the story decided to blow things out of proportion to suit his secret desire.
    People only go to the market under rain when people are in dire need of something; if there is no urgent need, people would stay indoors.

    ReplyDelete
  19. If there was a road block, it wasn't in the central area; it was in Unical area where the memorial lecture took place.
    Many people didn't even know that the VP came to town.

    ReplyDelete
  20. If calabar was locked down, then the state government should be held responsible, cos they ordered the lockdown, and how will the VP know all dese happened when he was attending a function. Do not forget that last year during the campaigns when the Ex president and his wife came, calabar was locked down, so why are you people now lamenting like it's the 1st time u ve witnessed it. We Nigerians are always biased.

    ReplyDelete
  21. hmmm APC an lies... I leave close to unical an every road arud unical wz locked down

    ReplyDelete
  22. PURE LIES!!! I was a victim. Yesterday was he'll for us, we had to trek long distances just cos of Osinbajo.. else u'll be in a hold-up for several hours. Businesses around Ettagbor and edim.otop area were completely locked down cos customers couldn't find their way to d shops. Dis man shouldn't come to Cally again abeg! Nonsense

    ReplyDelete
  23. A friend of mine was just lamenting of how pedestrians were stopped on the streets of Abuja so as the president can pass. so i don't doubt if this happened. the truth is that shutting down all the streets, roads and shops when a president or vice president is visiting a state can never solve the security problem in Nigeria. it is high time Nigerians stepped up their games and think properly. when they get better thinking assassins, they are going to start thinking better than shutting down peoples business as a means of providing security. As for the people who still think that they are the "gods of Nigeria", We are watching them and God is watching us.

    ReplyDelete
  24. Serious lies. These politicians r demonic liars. May God deal with u for d sufferings of yesterday.
    Everywhere was locked down.
    Liars. For osinbanjo n his people to lie like Then this man is a fraud.
    Elle

    ReplyDelete
  25. The whole town "Calabar Municipal" was in chaos ystdy. Traffic was hell, I don't see why a President or VP cannot drive along the road with other road users or tax payers with causing traffic. This I would blame on our senseless Police Officers. I was in traffic for more than one hour for a 7mins journey. Major routes in the city was on lock down.

    ReplyDelete

Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the comment writers alone and does not reflect or represent the views of Linda Ikeji.

Recent Posts