Mr. Rights Blog

Dr.Jay Osi Samuels In this exclusive interview with Mr Rights, National Chairman of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), Dr. Jay Osi Samuels talks about the controvercy surrounding ANN presidential primary election. He also explained how the party was formed and the powerful forces trying to hijack the party. Dr. Samuels also clarified the party's relationship with Pastor Adeboye and issues that led to the current controversy. Please give us a brief introduction about yourself I am Dr. Jay Osi Samuels; a Medical Doctor by training, with specialization in Public Health, International Health Development and Health System Strengthening. I am from Edo state, born and bred in Ibadan, buttered in Lagos and I was based outside the country, United States presicely before returning to the country in 2016. I studied medicine at the University of Ibadan and I did my post graduate studies at Harvard University. There has been a lot of controversy regarding the formation of your party, Alli...

Dr Jay Samuel YO I first met Fela Durotoye, FD as he is popularly called in August of 2017. This meeting was brokered by Pastor Jim Bent who was introduced to me by Naseer Daura the erstwhile Interim National Secretary of ANN. I later found out that Jim and Daura have been friends from their days in the Nigerian Military School. My meeting with FD took place in my hotel room at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel. This meeting that I thought would be a one-hour exploratory discussion to my amazement, started at 8pm and ended at well past midnight! After that meeting I was perplexed trying to make sense of all what we discussed. Two things that I could take away from that meeting was that FD wanted to court my friendship as a way of guaranteeing the ANN ticket and that he believes he is on a spiritual journey that had been ordained by God so he set out to bamboozle me with all sorts of revelations and prophesies to make me have no choice than to offer the ANN ticket to him right th...

The National Chairman of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), Dr. Jay Osi-Samuels has narrated how the party was rescued from highjackers and godfathers, saying it was not an easy task dealing with political and so called spiritual godfathers. " If i open my mouth and speak, Nigeria will boil'' he says. In a speech he delivered at the party’s national convention in Abuja on Wednesday, he said the party which is ideologically different from others suddenly found itself in the hands of godfathers, some of whom had hidden under the banner of church spiritual fathers. He further explained that forces of godfathers would have succeeded as a result of moles they planted in the party, but some genuine members within the fold stood up in defence of the party and its ideology. “Some powerful forces were surreptitiously working to disintegrate the party, they planted moles into the party and they almost succeeded in hijacking the structure of the party.” Dr. Osi-Samuels fur...