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Welcome to Linda Ikeji's Blog

147 students massacred in Kenya. Where's the outrage from world leaders?

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 01:00 PM PDT

Early yesterday morning, 147 students in a Kenyan university were massacred by Somali terrorists, a day later, the world has moved on from the story. African lives matter too!

 


Easter Weekend Fiesta holds at Bar Beach VI, Lagos

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 12:52 PM PDT

The much anticipated Easter Weekend Fiesta kicks off in Lagos today 3rd of April and will run till Monday 6th April 2015 at Bar Beach Stretch VI Lagos  (Same venue as the Lagos Countdown). The event is designed to cater for the fun needs of all family members throughout the Easter season.



According to the organizers, the Children's Fun Park would be open for the Easter duration which would include a games arcade, bouncy castles, Kiddies Games, Face Painting, Mascots, Clowns and so much more.

 Other various activities planned for the older audience includes Karaoke Night, Variety Night, Open Mic Night and Lounges with lots to eat and drink. Also on the card is the "The Great Feast" which would include the best Food vendors Lagos has to offer with cuisines from all over the country to tantalize your taste buds. 



Organizers have promised visitors endless fun on Easter Sundaywith a parade of the best of the Circus Performance like never seen before  in Lagos which include Magic night, Contortionists, Fire-Eaters, Unicyclists, Stilt Walkers, Clowns etc., Comedians, D.J Performances, and also Musical Performances by Top Nigerian Musical Acts Banky-W and M.I and Kiss Daniel to entertain all guests. The host for this year's event is Jimmie Akinsola.
For more details on tickets Visit: www.easterweekendfiestea.com

Mrs. Bola Shagaya Not Planning to Host Buhari's Wife - Aide

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 12:43 PM PDT

A statement from Mrs Bola Shagaya's people denying recent reports that she's planning to host First Lady in waiting, Mrs Aisha Buhari to a lavish dinner. Read below
Our attention has been drawn to a false and misleading story on the social media that Hajia Bola Shagaya is planning to host a dinner party in honour of Mrs. Aishat Buhari, wife of the winner of the March 28, 2015, Presidential Election (General Muhammadu Buhari). While we hold Mrs. Buhari in high esteem and commend the victory of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari at the poll, we wish to make it categorically clear for the records that this story is totally untrue & a fabrication. Hajia Bola Shagaya has no such plans or has she ever told anyone of such a plan to host Mrs. Buhari. It is purely mischief aimed at misleading Nigerians and disparaging her good name.
This rumour making the rounds on cyberspace has no iota of truth whatsoever and Hajia Bola Shagaya wishes to draw the attention of Nigerians to this. Hajia Bola Shagaya remains a very close confidant and friend of our amiable First Lady Dr. Dame Patience Jonathan and will continue to offer her invaluable contribution to the nation and always. We are also very proud of the heroic act of President Goodluck Jonathan making a great sacrifice to keep the peace of this nation.  We urge all Nigerians and all right thinking people to completely disregard such stories. It is false, and conjured out of envy.
You will recall that this rumour was attributed to the London chapter of All Progressives Congress to perfect this falsehood. All discerning Nigerians can understand why they planted such a story and the mischief behind it. We urge those behind it to desist forthwith. 
We thank all concerned Nigerians who reached out to us to find out the truth. May God continue to bless you and the Federal Republic of NIGERIA.
Signed
Prince Deji Adeyanju
For: Hajia Bola Shagaya

Jonathan's Legacy of Change By Reno Omokri (must read)

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 12:38 PM PDT

I said it yesterday and I will say it again, President Jonathan is my hero..:-). Article by Reno Omokri.
Let me first use this opportunity to congratulate the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari. Congratulations on your hard won victory which is a testimony to your resilience. You give a new meaning to the lyrics of a song by the late US R & B singer, Aaliyah Dana Haughton, who sang 'if at first you don't succeed, pick yourself up and try again'.
Having said that, let me say this loudly: I believe in the leadership of President Jonathan. I am proud of him.  Much as it may be hard for some to conceive of now, I am certain that in the not too distant future, many will find themselves saying about President Jonathan that never in the history of Nigeria has so much being owed to one leader in so short a time as President Jonathan. Of course, I am paraphrasing Sir Winston Churchill.

General Muhammadu Buhari has won the most transparent elections ever held in Nigeria and it is President Jonathan that ensured we had this most transparent election. One only happened because of the other. 

Think back to elections held before President Jonathan assumed power on May 6th, 2010. I am sure the phrase 'do or die' still rings familiar. 

That Nigerians are today celebrating is because of what God did through Jonathan.

But perhaps President Jonathan's greatest legacies lie in the intangible things he achieved for Nigeria.

Jonathan is the real change agent. He ensured Nigeria's freedom of information via the Freedom of Information Law, FOI, and our freedom to choose leaders via credible elections. 

Elsewhere, I have said that you may not be able to appreciate a very good wife until you have divorced her to marry another. 

Even his most ardent critics will appreciate Jonathan eventually. He allowed freedoms blossom and from the way he institutionalized these freedoms, it will be virtually impossible to put the genie back into the bottle.

I have only written a few lines, yet the word change keeps popping up whenever President Jonathan's name is mentioned. 

Nigerians may have voted for change, but I am skeptical that we will see as much change in the coming years as we saw in the last five years.

Apart from the intangibles, what were some of those changes you may ask?  

I will just mention a few.

In the midst of a brutal and subsisting insurgency, President Jonathan was able to lead the growth of our economy such that Nigeria became the largest economy in Africa and the 26th largest economy in the world.
 
He was able to reduce hunger in Nigeria (not according to any data from the government or any Nigerian run organization, but according to the International Food Policy Research Institute's Global Hunger Index).

His leadership saw Nigerians having the highest increase in Average Life Expectancy according to the United Nations Human Development Index which shows that life expectancy in Nigeria increased from 47 years pre Jonathan to 54 years today.  

For the first time in Nigeria's history, the long neglected Almajiri children of Northern Nigeria are able to go to a physical school with modern facilities on a large and organized scale because President Jonathan built schools for them.

Our women folk have had their highest per capita input in government under Jonathan. Almost 35% of all high profile appointments President Jonathan made were for the benefit of women. He also opened up the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, to women.

The Igbo people of the Southeast, who are very mercantile and commercially itinerant, now have an international airport and do not have to travel to Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja or Kano, to take a connecting flight. They can travel out of the country directly from Enugu. Whenever they do so, President Jonathan is putting back ₦60, 000 they would have spent on connecting flights back into their pockets.  

In the Southwest, the two most important roads, the Lagos-Ibadan and the Benin-Ore Expressways are wearing a new look courtesy of the change brought about by Jonathan. It is worth mentioning that those roads had been in a state of disrepair for decades before Jonathan happened on the scene.

In the power sector, Jonathan fulfilled his promise to privatize power. It may take sometime, but Nigeria is going to see the same massive increase in capacity and delivery in power as she saw in the telecommunications industry for the simple reason that government cannot do what the private sector can do and this is a fact known to every nation that has successfully solved its power challenges. 

Let me not go on and on about his achievements because I can. It suffices to say that under the rain, under the sun I will be for Jonathan! 

And I am not the only one. Some may sneer and say that it is because I have benefitted financially from this administration. If the incoming administration should investigate me, Nigerians will know that this is not the case. I supported President Jonathan because of passion not pocket. 

Now, this Change that has been voted for by Nigerians may be good and I hope it will be. 

For the vast majority of people chanting change, I pray that it will not be like a cow given to a child. That child will care for the cow as long as it is alive. The child will milk the cow, get it food and clean it every once in a while. But in many cases, the minute the cow is slaughtered and its meat is to be divided, the child then realizes who the owners of the cow really are. 

I have said and still say and will continue to say that by his uncommon and statesmanly action of conceding to President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, even while the votes were still being counted, President Jonathan doused the political tension in the land and took the wind out of the sails of those who may have had the means and  the desire to instigate violence. 

We may never know how many lives were saved by this action, but lives were indeed saved.

In my own opinion, President Jonathan deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for this gesture and at the very least, the Mo Ibrahim prize.

If we had had this legacy of conceding when Presidential elections are over, Nigeria would have been even more stable than she is right now and many many lives that were needlessly lost in previous electoral cycles would have been saved. 

I am so proud of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. So, so proud! 

And for the Peoples Democratic Party, its members must bear in mind that the All Progressive Congress is coming into power with control of the Executive and the Legislature and if history is anything to go by, a great deal of influence over the judiciary.

The people that are coming in are people who have tasted power before and have been away from it for far too long. They will not be shy in their use of power. 

But perhaps even more impactful than these is the fact that they are entering into power with something akin to near dominance or even control of the loudest section of the media. 

They have invested in the traditional media and even more so in the Social Media. Their influence over the youth is something like that wielded by the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

If the Peoples Democratic Party does not device an effective strategy that would see it increase its influence in those institutions that have traditionally been key to restraining the excesses of government, such as the media, labour and professional organizations and students and youth groups, market and road transport unions and so on, its ability to act as an effective opposition party that puts a democratic check on the excesses of the incoming ruling party will be severely eroded.

There is no time to have a pity party. What has just happened in Nigeria happens all the time in the advanced democracies of the West and even in next door Ghana. There is no shame to it. In fact, if the people involved know where they stand in the sands of time, they will understand that there is a lot to be proud of. 

Those in the PDP should not go and lick their wounds. Rather they should go and build their political machinery through intellectual development and genuine reconnection with the masses at the grass roots. 

Taking a cue from the behavior of the Republicans after they lose office to the Democrats, PDP mandarins should go back to school, take up newspapers columns, write books to tell their own accurate story before it is distorted, throw themselves into the lecture circuit (TED talks and conferences), set up foundations to help the less privileged and so on and so forth. 

They should not worry or despair. I am very certain that history will be kind to President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP and history has a way of repeating itself. 

Some may accuse me of being on a flight of fancy, so let me provide proof of history repeating itself in the democratic traditions of Nigeria. 

In 1956, Enugu elected Umaru Altine, a Fulani, as the first Mayor of the city. In 2015 Amuwo-Odofin, Ajeromi-Ifelodun and Oshodi-Isolo Federal Constituencies have repeated that history by electing Chief Oghene Egoh, Mrs. Rita Orji and Mr. Tony Nwoolu as their Representatives to the House of Representatives. 

Those elected are all non-indigenes elected under the banner of the PDP, in Lagos state, which is an APC stronghold. Now that is Change! No. That is Jonathan's Legacy of Change!

PDP members should not be down cast when gloaters ask them 'how market'. What those asking that pedestrian question fail to realize is that the work of healing and uniting Nigeria must start now. There's no time to gloat.

If they do not realize it, PDP members must realize it and begin to heal their party by building unity and infusing fresh blood into it. 

Four years may look like a very long time, but it really isn't. Remember that a party that did not even exist four years ago is about to form a government at the center. Isn't that instructive of what proper planning and execution can do? 

Reno Omokri is a pastor and author currently serving as Special Assistant on New Media to President Jonathan

Photo: Caroline Danjuma & her billionaire husband loved up at the beach

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 10:26 AM PDT

Lovebirds Caroline and her billionaire husband, Musa Danjuma pictured holding onto each other and kissing as they relax at the beach today with one of their sons. How lovely! Almost 10 years together

New Music: Mellosoul - In Love With You

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 10:14 AM PDT

Born Mamello Eleonora Juqula, now better known as "MelloSoul" on stage. MelloSoul is a South African singer and songwriter born in Durban, Kwazulu-Natal. Her love for music began at the tender age of 6, she grew up listening to R&B, Hip Hop, Soul and Jazz Music. 
Looking back today, artists that influenced her music immensely include Sade, Whitney Houston, Anita Baker and Beyonce. "In Love With You " is a follow up to her previous single "South West " ft K.Switch .... Download and enjoy - https://soundcloud.com/badmusic-sa/in-love-with-you1

There are pics of French Montana & Khloe's BFF hugging, and MTO says they are...

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 09:56 AM PDT

...having sex! Scandal! Lol. A man can't hug a woman again without them doing bad things? MTO doesn't seem to think so. Their report below...
"One day after it was announced that Khloe Kardashian's best friend Malika was getting her own show on E! Scandal breaks.
New photos were released showing Malika hugging Khloe's man French Montana inside Diddy's home. The pics were taken yesterday. And mind you, while all this is going on, Khloe was 2,000 miles away in Los Angeles doing press. Lol. Now she got us wanting to see the new show. Scandalous!" See the 'scandalous' photos after the cut...

Photos from the funeral of Kano Resident Electoral Commissioner & family

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 10:06 AM PDT

Kano Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alhaji Abdullahi Mukaila who alongside his wife and two daughters died in a mysterious fire (though police have since said there was no foul play) in their home early this morning have been buried. The funeral prayer was conducted in Dutse central Mosque, and in attendance were the chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, Governor of Jigawa State Gov Sule Lamido and Emir of Dutse among others. See the photos after the cut...

Dear men, don't propose to a woman in public if you're not sure she loves you or this could happen to you..lol

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 09:45 AM PDT

Happened somewhere in Nigeria...lol

Police narrates how Kano INEC resident officer and his family died in fire incident, rules out foul play

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 09:28 AM PDT

Kano state Police Commissioner, Mr Ibrahim Idris has narrated how Alhaji Munkaila Abdullahi, the Kano state INEC resident officer, his wife & 2 daughters were killed in a fire incident at the family's home this morning.

Speaking with newsmen this afternoon, CP Ibrahim Idris said preliminary investigation carried out by the police suggests that the fire might have been as a be as a result of an electrical fault. He ruled out foul play. What he said after the cut...


"Today (Friday) at about 4:30 a.m., the police men on guard duty at the official residence of the Resident Electoral Commissioner Kano state, Alhaji Munkaila Abdullahi located at No. 2 Sir Kashim Ibrahim Road, Nassarawa GRA, Kano, observed a fire emanating from split A/C in the sitting room. They made several attempt to get in touch with him including banging the doors and breaking some of the toilets windows but he was not responding. The police men and local guards broke the door leading to the sitting room, and discovered the sitting room was engulfed by fire and smoke.
They then went to the side of the door leading to the masters bedroom, broke the door and entered; they were not inside the bed room and the Police then went to the bathroom, inside the master bedroom and found the REC, his wife and his two daughters unconscious on the floor. They quickly removed them to Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital where the Doctor confirmed them dead. The Doctor confirmed the family died from inhalation of hot and black smoke. Meanwhile, the detectives attached to SCID sealed the scene and together with the fire service men have commenced thorough investigation into the fire incident," he said

#SamsungEasterBlast | Buy a mobile device & get cool gifts today!

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 09:25 AM PDT

Easter is here again and your favourite mobile device brand has freebies for the season - for you and yours. What you need to do? Walk into any Samsung Experience Store nationwide, buy any mobile device and you get cool gifts instantly. 

Gifts include mini speakers, polo shirts, free Eatery vouchers and discount movie tickets. Also enjoy free repair service on warranty and non-warranty mobile devices bought at the Lekki Service Centre in Lagos. *Offer valid while stocks last and varies according to location.

What breakup up? Tyga takes Kylie Jenner for a spin in his 3-wheel motorcycle

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 09:44 AM PDT

Didn't HollywoodLife say Tyga has dumped Kylie after taking her virginity? Lol. The rapper and his teenage girlfriend were spotted zooming about through Woodland Hills, California yesterday in his $20,000 Polaris Slingshot three wheel motorcycle. More photos after the cut..


Photo Credit: MailOnline/FameFlyNet.

Photos: Buhari attends Nasir El-Rufai's son's wedding in Abuja

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 09:04 AM PDT

President-elect, Gen. Buhari attended the wedding fathia of Bello El-Rufai and his fiancée, Kamilah Haruna  in Abuja earlier today. See more photos after the cut...

'I’ll speak at the appropriate time' - President Jonathan

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 08:53 AM PDT

President Jonathan says he will speak on issues bothering on his administration and the last election at the appropriate time. President Jonathan said this while speaking to State House correspondents after Good Friday Service organised by the Aso Villa Chapel today April 3rd
"Don't worry, I will talk to you at the appropriate time," President Jonathan said with a smile on his face

Photos: Taraji P. Henson steps out in see-through dress

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 08:52 AM PDT

 The woman of the moment (she has the number TV show on US cable) Taraji P. Henson wore this black see-through dress at the launch of the Samsung GalaxyS 6 & GalaxyS 6 Edge in LA yesterday.

Easter Eggtravaganza at Ikeja City Mall

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 08:18 AM PDT

Easter greetings to all! As the Easter celebration draws closer, ICM is pleased to announce the next event tagged: "Eggtraveganza 2015", which will kick off from 29th March to 5th April, 2015.

The event is 3 fold and broken down thus:
∙     The Easter Bunny Promo: From 29th March to 3rd April 2015, shoppers are encouraged to purchase any item up to the tune of N5,000 or more in any store in ICM, and then drop receipts with contact details at the designated boxes placed at the 3 entrances into the mall. 

      There will be a raffle on 3rd April and 6 winners will be selected and contacted. Winners will win gifts donated by participating tenants. They include Mr.Price, Cold Stone, Mr.Price, Bheerhugz Cafe, Sports World, Nike, Swatch, Da Viva, black|Up, Bruno's Place, Jack & Jones, Seven Eagle Spur Restaurant, Harmony, V Shop, Shoprite, Mango, Enzzo, Diva Accessories, Kidz Country, KFC and much more.

∙        EASTER BUNNY TREASURE TRAIL: On Easter Sunday, there will be a treasure hunt and shoppers will search for clues on twitter, Facebook and this blog for clues about participating tenant stores to locate the treasure (Easter eggs). If you shopped up to the tune of N5,000 on Easter Sunday, you qualify to participate for the Easter Bunny Treasure Trail. Each shopper that discovers an egg will win N10,000 to spend in any of the participating stores in ICM. 10 winners will emerge from the Easter Bunny Treasure Trail.
       Please note: Only those that purchase up to the tune of N5,000 in ICM will participate in the Treasure Trail.

∙        EASTER BUNNY LUCKY WALK: On Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, the ICM Bunny will walk around the mall giving shoppers Easter gifts at its own discretion in appreciation to shoppers for their patronage.

So why don't you make ICM the place you do all your Easter shopping this season?  You stand the chance to be one of the 16 lucky winners. Also, don't forget to be on the lookout for clues on ICM social media platforms which will be uploaded on the eve of Easter Sunday (4th April, 2015). Good Luck!

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Happy Easter Celebrations in advance!

As always, Ikeja City Mall remains your choice destination for leisure, shopping and entertainment!
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French President invites Buhari to Paris for bilateral talks

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 08:12 AM PDT

President of France, Francois Hollande has invited President-elect, Gen. Buhari to Paris for bilateral talks on expansion of trade between France and Nigeria and the fight against Boko Haram.

A statement by the French Embassy in Abuja said President Hollande had put a call to Gen. Buhari yesterday April 2nd, congratulating him on his success at the polls and reiterated France's support to Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram. The statement reads in part;
"The French head of state assured the President-elect of France's wish to continue the close relationship that existed with his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan and reiterated France's support for Nigeria and its neighbors in their efforts to combat the terrorist sect Boko Haram."

The Nigerian Army has found Buhari's certificate?

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 08:03 AM PDT

According to an APC leader, Sen. Tokunbo Afikuyomi, the Nigerian Army has found the certificate of Gen. Buhari. The former Senator shared this new development on his twitter handle today.

The certificate of Gen. Buhari generated a lot of controversy after the Nigerian Army came out to say they didn't have it. The Nigerian Army has however not confirmed that they've found the certificate.

Photos: Truck about to fall off Eko bridge in Lagos

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 08:05 AM PDT

This happened on Eko bridge going into Apapa this afternoon. A truck toppled over and about to fall off the bridge. A heavy duty truck is currently trying to prevent it from falling. See another pic after the cut...

Did Wiz Khalifa respond to Amber Rose's pleas of reconciliation?

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 07:44 AM PDT

Yesterday Amber Rose put up an emotional post on instagram saying she still loved her estranged husband Wiz and wanted him back. I have been monitoring his social media accounts since last night  to see if he'll respond publicly. Did he just do that?

Was this a message to Amber to knock it off or just a random Tweet?

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Posted: 03 Apr 2015 07:34 AM PDT

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Photos: Yakubu Gowon pays Buhari congratulatory visit

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 07:24 AM PDT

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon paid a congratulatory visit to the president-elect, Gen Buhari at his Abuja residence yesterday April 2nd.


Graphic content: Meet Sani!

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 07:20 AM PDT

Sani's home was destroyed when his village was set on fire by Boko Haram. Sadly, Sani lost his parents in the fire. The rest of his family survived the fire only to be viciously gunned down in front of him. Fortunately, Sani was rescued by his neighbor and brought to the camp for displaced persons. Sani is recovering from his burns, but he has a long road of recovery and healing ahead of him.


His emotional scars will undoubtedly take longer to heal than his physical ones. He cannot close his left eye and his left arm has a permanent disability.

Unless Sani has immediate care, he may lose his left eye and develop permanent spine deformity.

Sani is one of over 570 people at one of the camps for displaced persons where International Coalition for the Eradication of Hunger and Abuse, ICEHA, provides food, education, and other vital support. The food supply in Sani's camp is critically low and ICEHA are only able to provide limited medical attention.

ICEHA needs your help to get Sani and many others the food and medical care they desperately need. To help, go here

Check out Banky W's spanking new photo shoot

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 07:06 AM PDT

R&B singer Banky W releases new images dressed up in outfit by Mai Atafo Inspire for the Ciroc campaign. See more photos after the cut..

A Germanwing pilot did something powerful to comfort anxious passengers on his flight

Posted: 03 Apr 2015 06:58 AM PDT

You know how you enter a plane and you don't really see who's flying it, just the air-hosts/hostesses? Well, a pilot of a Germanwings plane did something yesterday on a flight from Berlin to Paris that many have hailed as commendable, following the crash of a plane by another Germanwings pilot, Andreas Lubitz. Since the incident, Germanwings passengers have been left fearful and anxious.

According to one of the passengers on the plane, Roche Kelly, who told the story on Facebook, he said the unnamed pilot wanted passengers to put a human face to the man who was flying them and so he came out to speak to the entire plane before they flew, so everyone could look him in the eyes.

Kelly described the emotional moment the pilot took it upon himself to speak to passengers in three different languages about the upcoming flight, promising to get them to their destination safely. Find what Kelly wrote after the cut...


"So, I was on a Germanwings flight this morning (Berlin-Paris). It hadn't even occurred to me to think about that before I got on the plane, but there was a tense vibe — the crew were on edge, some passengers were definitely more nervous than normal...
Once I was actually onboard, and looked at the crew door, it was all too easy to imagine how horrific the time before that crash would have been.
I was thinking about what kind of a response a company should make to something like this. Do you ask everyone to carry on as normal? With utmost professionalism and a stiff upper lip?
Then, our pilot came out and made almost his normal pre-flight speech, except he did standing in the front row.

He spoke (at length, in 3 languages) about how it was a difficult and strange time for him and for all the cabin crew, how they still all love doing their job, and how they're thankful that they still have passengers coming onto their planes.
Mostly though, he said he just wanted to come out and stand in front of everyone, and let all the passengers on his flight have a moment of eye contact with him, and for us to meet him and for him to meet us.
I can't know, of course, if making that speech was a personal decision, or if it was something that was agreed on, but anyone listening could tell it was a difficult thing to do- to stand in front of 150 more-nervous-than-they-really-needed-to-be people and say "everything's going to be fine, because I am going to look after it," and I can't help but have enormous respect for him.
"So, well done that man."

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