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Ekiti APC Suspends Two Members For Allegedly Working For Tinubu’s Presidential Ambition

ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that two members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti state have been reportedly suspended for allegedly having affiliations with the South West Agenda for 2023, a political group that is advocating for the presidential aspiration of a former governor of Lagos, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. According to the report, the affected members, Kayode Adetifa and Jide Oso, were APC members in Ward 9, Owaye Quarters, in Ayede Ekiti in the Oye Local Government Area (LGA) of the state.

The suspension was contained in two separate letters handed over to the party members. The letters accused them of working against the unity of the party in the state. The letters read in part: “We noted from your activities in the party in the recent past that you have been working against the unity of the party even to the extent of creating a parallel ward that you named “SWAGA” within the ward. “You sent in confirmation of your action through Mr Jide Oso, a former ward chairman on 16th May 2021 to the ward that you have created another venue for this purpose.”

The party’s spokesperson, Ade Ajayi, justified the suspension. He said disciplinary action was taken against the members because they were defying the party’s orders and dividing the party through their actions.

Meanwhile, a former Minister of Works, Dayo Adeyeye, has argued that the fact that the Southwest Zone has produced the president in the past won’t stop it from clinching the presidential ticket if the APC zoned the 2023 ticket to the south. It was reported that Adeyeye made the statement in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, June 15, during the official launching of the South West Agenda (SWAGA) 2023. The ex-minister argued that Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains the right man to succeed President Buhari.

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JUST IN: Oyo PDP Passes Vote of No Confidence on Youth Leader, Adekola, Set To Announce His Expulsion

The youth umbrella body of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State on Saturday, passed a vote of no confidence on the Youth leader of the party, Asiwaju Adekola Adeoye.

Adekola Adeoye according to his recent posts on social media, expressed his displeasure with Governor Seyi Makinde for not keeping to the promises he (Makinde) made to him before his victory at the poll in 2019. Reports from leaders and members of the party alleged Adekola of anti-party activities which they described as inimical to the PDP. He was said to have voted for Eddy Olafeso at the PDP zonal Congress held in Oshogbo, the capital of Osun State.

Meanwhile, Adekola Adeoye says he felt betrayed and disappointed after he had exercised patience for the needful to be done. Adeoye was present at the meeting of the aggrieved PDP members held at Jogor event.
However, the PDP youths are holding their expanded meeting at the party’s Secretariat, Molete, Ibadan. Their communiqué will be out after the meeting. According to a member of the party, the youth leader may be suspended.

Details later….

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Ex-Reps Member, Dapo Lam Condoles With Late Rahman’s Family, Asks Oyo Govt To Fish Out Perpetrators

A former Ibadan North East/South East Federal Constituency Representative, Honourable Dapo Lam Adesina has called on the Makinde led administration to prosecute killers of Rahman Azeez, who was killed during a face-off between Phone sellers and members of Oyo State Park Management System (PMS) at Iwo Road, Ibadan.

Honourable Dapo Lam during his visit to the family of Rahman on Friday, 18th June 2021 expressed disappointment in how the Oyo State Government has been handling security issues which he pinpoints as the primary duty of a good government.

While he commiserated with the mother of the deceased, he urged her to be strong for other children especially the twins left behind by Rahman.

“Having heard from different people, Rahman lived a good life and I congratulate you this ma. I want to urge you to be strong for other children, especially the twins he left behind.

“I am not just a politician but a youth advocate. So on behalf of Ibadan youths, I want to use this medium to call on Governor Makinde to ensure that justice prevail. Killers of Rahman must be brought to book.

“More so, there has been a rumour that Rahman’s brother, Hammed was the target before the culprits could not get him. It is our duty now to speak up and let the world know this, nothing must happen to Hammed” he concluded.

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Iwo-Road Mayhem: Mother of Slain Phone Seller Pleads For Justice

Mother of the man allegedly killed by members of Park Management System (PMS) in Iwo-road, Ibadan on Wednesday, Alhaja Salimot Azeez and the entire family have called on the state government to hep them get justice.

Alhaja Salimot pleaded for justice on Friday while speaking with journalists in Ibadan.

She said the family has visual evidences where the leader of PMS in the state, Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi popularly called Auxiliary asked his members to attack traders in the complex.

It was reported that two people including Rahman Azeez were killed on Wednesday when members of the PMS attacked Iwo-road complex.

“They used to defecate and smoke Indian hemp in my complex when I newly bought it. They have been using that place for motor park for years.

“Former Commissioner of Police, Baba Adisa Bolanta intervened and resolved it that we should allow them to use a part of the entrance and I allowed them. Even our DPO at that time, Ilori took photographs of the way the commercial drivers were disturbing us to the Commissioner of Police and he resolved it amicably for us.

“Even with the fact that I gave them space, they were not satisfied. My child that was killed was a graduate. He graduated from Lead City University. My first born they attempted to kill graduated from a university in London. He said he could not do the kind of job people are doing in London and that was why he came back home.

“He has a shop where he is selling phones in the complex. He was never a cultist. He was a phone dealer. I don’t know what I did for Auxiliary that made him killed my son. He knows me and I usually give him something. I do give him whatever he ask from me. This is a great lost.

“A 37-years old boy was killed just like that. Government should help me to get those who killed my son. I want justice. I want to know the person that killed my son when he didn’t fight or drag anything with them,” Mother of the deceased said.

The elder brother to the victim who is also the manager of the said complex, Mr. Hammed Azeez while speaking on the incident said he was the main target of the members of PMS who killed his brother.

“I was the one they were after. If they were able to lay their hands on me that day, I wouldn’t have been here today. I don’t know why the man is still on the street now.

“By now, he should be in remand. That man is a dangerous beast. I don’t know why Oyo State Government should have made an ex- convict a leader of a group tormenting and killing people. What kind of system are we running?” he lamented.

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Gov. Sanwo-Olu Commissions Newly Rehabilitated Roads in Ikoyi

The Lagos State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde has commisoned newly rehabilitated roads in Ikoyi, Lagos State.

The governor, while commissioning the roads yesterday said, his administration is cognizant of the fact that strategic investment in infrastructure is the foundation for long-term growth.

The governor in his statement further reads, “we equally understand that, provision of adequate road infrastructure will generate a strong economic base for improved productivity and standard of living, which will also attract investments and investors to our dear state.

“Bad road networks occasioned by incessant flooding plagued the ikoyi, Obalende parts of Lagos. This has caused untold hardship for residents and commuters in that axis.

“Earlier today, I commissioned the newly rehabilitated Thompson Avenue, Milverton, McDonald, and Lateef Jakande Road, all in Ikoyi.
The roads, which have a combined length of 3.75km, were in deplorable conditions, following failure of the aligning drainage channels.

“It is gratifying to note that, we have re-engineered and reconstructed these roads network for efficiency and improved traffic flow. We have also addressed perennial flooding in the area.

“To further improve traffic connectivity in Ikoyi, I approved immediate rehabilitation work on three other arterial roads in the area. They are Cooper Road, McPherson Road, and Queen’s Drive.

“It is worthy of note that similar regeneration projects are currently being carried out in other areas of the state, including Lekki-Epe, Victoria Island, Alimosho, Kosofe, Ojo, Lagos Island, Badagry, Ikorodu and Ikeja GRA”.

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JUST IN: Police arrests 65-year-old man for raping 85-year-old step-mom in Ekiti

The Police command in Ekiti state has nabbed a 65-year-old man, Durodola Kayode Ogundele, of Ayetoro-Ekiti for reportedly having sexual intercourse through force with his 85yr old Step-Mother in her room.

A statement issued by the spokesman of the state police command, ASP Abutu Sunday, disclosed that the suspect, who is a son to the victim’s late husband, entered her room on June 15 to assist her in applying herbal medicine on her legs which he normally does due to her leg pain. ”The victim alleged that after applying the herbal medicine on her legs, the suspect forcefully had sexual intercourse with her twice.” the statement in part read Abutu added that the state commissioner of Police, CP Tunde Mobayo, has ordered the case be transferred to the State CID and be thoroughly investigated after which the suspect be charged to Court. 

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We Have Arrested 127 Suspected Traffic Robbers in 3 Months – Lagos Police

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has again reassured Lagosians that robbery in traffic will soon fizzle out and become a history in the state as the Lagos State Police Command has deployed its human and material resources to tackle the menace headlong.

The Commissioner of Police, while giving the assurance on Thursday 17th June, 2021, in his Ikeja office, confirmed the arrest of not less than One Hundred and Twenty Seven Suspected traffic robbers at various locations within Lagos State from March, 2021 till date; noting that the command has been fighting robbery in traffic relentlessly, even before the recent donation of crime fighting equipment and communication gadgets to the command by the Lagos State Government; and the fight against the menace will be intensified and more effective with the new equipment from the Lagos State Government.

CP Hakeem Odumosu asserted that robbery in traffic has drastically reduced based on the available empirical figure of the isolated cases of robbery in traffic which is not unconnected to the command’s renewed anti crime strategies being emplaced.

Similarly, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered that the combat training, musketry and range practice for Police personnel in the command should be continuous as the command also commenced the training of the police operatives attached to the newly formed Anti Traffic Robbery Squad to tackle the menace of robbery in traffic in Lagos State. CP Hakeem Odumosu strongly attributed successes recorded in the fight against crimes and criminality in the state to training and re-trainng of police officers and men and constructive collaboration with the public and other security agencies in the state.

In the same vein, operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, again nabbed two (2) notorious suspected robbers along Ikorodu Road, Lagos on 15th June, 2021. The two (2) suspects are Tunde Ramoni, m, 21 and Adepoju Samuel, m, 34.

Tunde Ramoni, who hails from Ibadan, Oyo State, was arrested at Ojota, while Adepoju Samuel who hails from Ogbomosho, Oyo State, was caught in the act while robbing a motorist with unregistered motorcycle (Okada) around Tipper area, Ketu, Lagos State.

During the course of investigation, it was revealed that Tunde Ramoni was once arrested with a gang of ‘Pick Pocketers’ in 2019 and was convicted to 6 months imprisonment.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has directed that the 2 suspects be transferred to the Command’s Special Squad, Ikeja, for proper investigation.

Similarly, police operatives attached to Apapa Division of the Lagos State Police Command, today Wednesday 16th June, 2021, arrested one Ibrahim Abidun, m, 26, at Agbomalu Apapa, Lagos State, with two (2) locally-made pistols.

Other items recovered from him include two (2) live cartridges, assorted charms and weeds suspected to be Indian hemp.

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, has ordered that the suspect be transferred to the Command’s Special Squad, Ikeja, for proper investigation and possible prosecution.

While reiterating the command’s zero tolerance for crimes and social vices in Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, ordered the Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and tactical Commanders to redouble their efforts in securing public space across the length and breadth of Lagos State.

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JUST IN: Oyo PDP Holds Stakeholders’ Meeting, Says Moles In Party ‘Have Left in Soul And Spirit’

ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that the Oyo State Chapter of Peoples’ Democratic Party PDP has held stakeholders’ meeting among the party stalwarts.

The meeting which was held today at the party Secretariat, Molete had several party loyalists in attendance. In the meeting it was concluded and resolved that the PDP in Oyo State remains one and indivisible.

The resolution of the PDP affirming its indivisibility was contained in a communique released after the meeting and made available to ODUDUWA NEWS as read in part:

“BEING A COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE OYO STATE CHAPTER OF THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY ON FRIDAY 18TH OF JUNE 2021 AFTER A STATE OF THE PARTY MEETING AT THE STATE PDP SECRETARIAT, MOLETE, IBADAN

  1. We unequivocally affirm and identify with the leadership of Engineer Oluseyi Abiodun Makinde as the authentic leader of our party in Oyo State and the South Western Zone.
  2. We also use this medium to announce that our position in Oyo State PDP is in alignment with the position of our amiable governor and leader of our party in the south west, Engineer Seyi Makinde on the areas of security of lives and properties. We enjoin all the relevant security agencies to justify the good disposition of the governor towards them and see to curbing crimes in our State.
  3. We want to implore dissident voices that are fanning the flames of discord in our party to desist from such acts as the entire leadership of the party will henceforth not tolerate indiscipline and public defamation of the image of our party and the government by some sectarian elements in the party.
  4. We want to make it unequivocally clear that our party is not divided and we do not have factions. We are united and the party is becoming stronger daily under the leadership of Alhaji Omokunmi Mustapha and Governor Seyi Makinde
  5. We also wish to state that the winning team, the executives that won elections i.e the present set of PDP Executives are united and we are running the party according to the provisions of the constitution of our party
  6. We say that those calling for the dissolution of the State Party Executives are ill-advised, misinformed, insensitive, forgetful and deliberately malicious. The State Party leadership is fine and we are solidly behind our hardworking governor.

“It is important to remind those who are enemies of success that when these current set of Oyo State PDP Executives came on board, there was no single national/ state house of assembly member neither was the party winning elections. The current set of Executives has led the party to win gubernatorial election, a senatorial seat, four house of representative seats, 26 out of 32 houses of assembly members and also conducted, monitored and oversaw the LG elections where the party won all the 33 Chairmanship Seats and 90% f the Councillorship positions. It is sheer wickedness to call for the dissolution of a winning team

  1. We want to also implore the entire populace of Oyo State to continue to support the governor of Oyo State in his quest to restore our state back to the pacesetting pedestals. The governor has done well in the past two years of his administration despite that the fact that we inherited a state that was badly battered, almost destroyed and our funds and resources seriously injured by the inhumane, wicked, unkind, unfair and the corrupt government of the APC and their failed leaders
  2. We find it rather laughable and preposterous that majority of the so called, self-acclaimed and passive leaders who are defaming, disparaging and embarrassing the hard earned victory of the party today were caught in bed with the opposition parties severally before the last general elections. How do you describe PDP Leaders who publicly campaigned for candidates of other parties and even mobilized their followers to vote for ADP/ADC and APC candidates on the Election Day?
  3. Many of these leaders who did not vote nor supported the candidates of the party at the national assembly and presidential elections forgot that the major negotiating data that birthed the coalition that made the gubernatorial victory easy for us was the results and the achievements of the party at the first elections which many of them worked against the interest of the party
  4. It is highly imperative to note that one of the so called leaders who even signed the poor communique at the failed Jogor centre meeting sued the party up to the Supreme Court. At what point did He actually become a true party man?
  5. We want to inform the good people of Oyo State that many of these misguided leaders have left us in soul and spirit. How else do you explain the characters of PDP Leaders who hosted many figures from the opposition in their houses? We have very well publicised images of the visit of Dr. Fola Akinosun, Sen. Soji Akanbi and others few days/hours before the National Assembly elections and many of them have also hosted the gubernatorial candidate of APC in 2019 election, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, the Senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District, Senator Teslim Folarin, and other ambitious opposition figures and we are not unaware of several nocturnal meetings of some these so called leaders with leading top – notch figures from the APC like Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
  6. Their game plan is to frustrate, truncate and destroy the relative peace we currently enjoy in Oyo State PDP and mortgage our hardworking governor for their selfish agenda of handing over Oyo State into the hands of the wicked, inhumane and high handed APC
  7. We want to thank the good people of Oyo State who actually separated the wheat from the chaff in the current situation in Oyo State. We are certain and we want to assure the good people of Oyo State that our governor is working assiduously with every relevant persons, institutions, agencies and stakeholders to ensure that Ibarapa, Oke-Ogun, Ogbomoso, Oyo and Ibadan is more secured and conducive for all.
  8. We want to say it with all confidence that under Governor Seyi Makinde and PDP, a better Oyo State is assured.
  9. Thank you.

Signed:

A. All the State Party Executives except two
B. Members of the National Assembly including Sen Kola Balogun except One
C. 26 Members of the State House of Assembly
D. All the thirty three (33) elected Council Chairmen and Chairpersons
E. Thirty One out thirty three local government party chairmen”.

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Insecurity: Aare Onakakanfo Writes UN, US, Seeks Intervention In Yorubaland

Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Chief Gani Adams has sent a letter to the global community, seeking their intervention in the ongoing killings and kidnappings in Nigeria.

The letter titled, ‘Urgent Need To Stop Killings By Fulani Herdsmen In Yorubaland’, was addressed to Secretary-General, United Nations; Chairperson of the African Union; Secretary of State, the United States; British Foreign Secretary; European Union Member States, the Economic Community of West African States, amongst others on Wednesday.

The letter partly read, “So, it is because of the psychopathic killings going on in our land that I’m writing this letter to you to please intervene in this murderous quagmire.

“We have a situation in which the Federal Government appears overwhelmed and is fast losing grip of its constitutional mandate to protect the land.

“Obviously, Nigeria is on the precipice, cascading downward in a dangerous and suicidal manner.

“Words of wisdom seem to have taken flight.

“Because we live in a global world, I am drawing your attention that any crisis that happens in Nigeria may have a negative effect on the rest of the world.

“And it may happen soon because all the security establishments are already showing signs of virtual ineffectiveness.”

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