The Vice President’s office, Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s, has responded to rumours that he intends to leave the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to the story, which was based on a leaked document dated June 24, 2022, with the reference number SH/VP/605/2./0, Osinbajo wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari asking for permission to leave the APC.
In response to the memo, Mr. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, stated that the document and its contents contain no reality.
He said the memo was fabricated and did not come from his principal.
“From where do you people acquire these things?” Who gave you it? Anyway, just to be clear, the memo is a fabrication. “The VP did not write anything like that,” Akande was cited as saying by The Nation.
The embattled Deputy Governor of Oyo State, Rauf Olaniyan, on Thursday, challenged the judgment of an Oyo State High Court which dismissed the application challenging the legality of the state House of Assembly to remove him from office.
Justice Ladiran Akintola of an Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, dismissed the suit, stating that the House of Assembly has not breached the provisions of the constitution on the removal of a governor or deputy governor.
Confirming the development to Daily Trust after the High Court judgment, Counsel to Olaniyan, Chief Afolabi Fashanu (SAN), said he has filed applications for notice of appeal and stay of execution of the judgment delivered by the lower court.
Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James alias Baba ijesha has been sentenced to five years imprisonment after he was found guilty of indecent treatment and sexual assault of a minor which occurred between 2013-2014.
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos state sexual offenses court sitting in Ikeja found that the prosecution successfully proved counts 2 and 3, that he indecently placed the then seven year old child on his laps and rubbed her private part.
He was also found guilty of counts 4 and 5, where he was accused of again indecently touching the same minor and sexually assaulting her seven years later at her home by rubbing her body and sucking her fingers.
The minor is a foster child of comedienne, Damilola Adekoya aka princess. But justice Taiwo found him not guilty of count 1 which deals with allegedly sexually assaulting the minor by penetration with his car key seven years ago.
The court also found him not guilty of count 6, where he was accused of attempted sexual assault by penetration during another encounter with the minor in April 2021.
ODUDUWA NEWS has just gathered that the PDP MEGA RALLY earlier scheduled to take place at the Osogbo Stadium has been shifted to the Party’s Secretariat, Biket Junction Osogbo.
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According to ODUDUWA NEWS Correspondent in Osogbo, some party stalwarts had already gathered at the Stadium before it was later learnt that the venue has been changed.
As at the time of filing this report, the Party’s Presidential candidate and his running mate, Atiku Abubakar and Gov Ifeanyi Okowa are currently leading party faithfuls to the new venue owing to the failure of APC-led government of Osun to release the Stadium for the rally.
A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit filed by former Secretary to the Osun State Government, Moshood Adeoti, seeking to void the nomination of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Saturday’s governorship election.
Adeoti had claimed that Oyetola violated the provision of Article 31 (3) of the APC construction by allegedly not resigning his membership of the Caretaker/Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) 30 days before the party’s primary from which Oyetola emerged as the candidate of the APC.
In a judgment on Thursday, Justice Inyang Ekwo held among others, that the suit was an abuse of court process because it disclosed no cause of action.
Justice Ekwo noted that the subject matter of the suit fall outside the scope of Section 285(14) of the Constitution and Section 87(9) of Electoral Act and therefore the case did not qualify as pre-election matter. Justice Ekwo held that the suit falls within the internal affairs of the party on which the court could not intervene.
The judge also held that the suit was premature, because Adeoti failed to exhaust the internal dispute resolution mechanisms of the APC before approaching the court.
He further held that the creation of the CECPC was a decision of the APC as an ad-hoc measure and that, holding a position in it did not amount to occupying a party office for which officials are elected.
The judge added that Oyetola’s membership of the CECPC did qualify him as holding any office in the party, which is recognised by the APC’s constitution.
Justice Ekwo held that Adeoti ought to have challenged the setting up of the CECPC by the APC, and that having participated in the primary conducted by it, he could no longer turn around to challenge the outcome of the primary.
The petition brought by the state’s deputy governor, engineer Rauf Olaniyan, contesting the House of Assembly’s impeachment procedure to remove him from office, has been dismissed by Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court.
The judge stated that the claimant’s originating summons were not judicial in accordance with the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s constitution but rather only legislative procedure in his ruling on Thursday.
ODUDUWA NEWS reports that Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan, would render a decision today Thursday in a dispute that is pending between the Oyo State House of Assembly and Deputy Governor Rauf Olaniyan.
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The Deputy Governor, Mr. Rauf Olaniyan, had been accused of serious misconduct, and the Oyo State House of Assembly had last Wednesday instructed the State Chief Judge to appoint a panel of seven members to look into the matter.
According to a source who requested anonymity, the judgment that will be heard today, “Thursday,” was originally scheduled for July 26th.
The source continued by saying that the judgment had been brought up since the parties’ attorneys had been properly informed of the development.
It was learnt that the Oyo State Speaker, Oyo State House of Assembly and the Clerk, Oyo state house of Assembly are the first, second and third defendants in the matter, respectively.
Chief Afolabi Fashanu, SAN, is representing Olaniyan (claimant) while Otunba Kunle Kalejaiye, SAN, is leading counsel.
Congratulatory messages have been sent to Alao-Akala family as the first son of the late ex-governor, Hon. Olamiju Alao-Akala, welcomed twins on Wednesday.
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This information was released six months after Chief Alao Akala, his father and the former governor of Oyo, passed away at the age of 71.
On Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014, Olamiju, a 37-year-old former leader of Ogbomoo North Local Government in Oyo State, wed Hadiza Okoya, the daughter of tycoon Chief Rasaq Okoya.
Olamiju, on the other hand, is the first son of Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, and Hadiza is the sole offspring of a relationship between Chief Okoya and his former Liberian wife.
Remember that Olamijuwonlo Alao-Akala won the All Progressives Congress APC House Reps primary election to represent Ogbomosho South, North and Oriire Federal Constituency.
The Lagos House of Assembly has denied a report that it secretly passed a Sharia Bill to get Northerners support for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu.
The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Security and Strategy, Mr Setonji David, made this known in a statement on Wednesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that an online media had reported that the assembly hurriedly passed a bill to set up Sharia courts, paving way for Sharia law in Lagos state which had been signed into law by the current state governor.
David, representing Badagry II, said the report was a mere figment of the imagination of the writer and a total lie from the pit of hell.
The spokesperson said no informed person should believe such lies against the assembly that was above the common standard of excellence, adding that the news was far from the reality.
He said: “The attention of the Lagos state house of assembly has been drawn to a malicious and unfounded report making the rounds on social media.
“That the assembly has secretly passed a sharia law in a deal to get Northern support for Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate.
“We will not have dignified the writer of this hate speech but in order to set the records straight, this is a mere figment of the imagination of the writer and a total lie from the pit of hell.
“No informed person should believe this lie against the assembly that is above the common standard of excellence. The news is far from reality.
“Some people are just mischievous. Spreading all sorts of untrue stuff. Is it possible to pass a law under cover?
“The process of law making is universal and very open. You cannot pass a law without subjecting it to public hearing in Lagos state.”
David urged residents of the state and Nigerians as a whole to take the peddlers of this unfounded report as uninformed, and uneducated people who needed to be schooled about the law making process.
He said Tinubu was a fast selling product across the country and does not need any law from the state to further endear him to all Nigerians.
The lawmaker said by the special grace of God, Tinubu would emerge winner of the 2023 presidential election to the shame of purveyors of the hate news.
Former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Lagos, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has dismissed report that he has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Agbaje was earlier reported to have joined APC to support the party’s Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The report has been trending on Facebook and the instant messaging platform, WhatsApp, quoting him to have said he was dumping the opposition party to work for Tinubu.
He has however dismissed the report in response to a text message sent to him by our correspondent.
“No truth to the story,” Agbaje said in his reply.
He has followed up with a post on his verified Twitter handle @jimiagbaje, writing, “Eyin ko lokan (it is not your turn) o. Nigerians Lokan. Jimi Agbade – PDP.”
Emilokan (It’s my turn) is the slogan used by supporters of Tinubu after it was popularised by the APC Presidential Candidate in his famous speech in Ogun State prior to the conduct of the presidential primaries.
