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A press statement made available to ODUDUWA NEWS on Sunday cleared the aired that the incident was a cult related violence.

Osifeso through the statement however confirmed that a person was killed during the heated fracas, while some hoodlums that responsible for the break down of law and order have been arrested for thourogh investigations.

The statement stated as thus; “Cult related violence broke out at the early hours of Friday 11/02/2022 between some hoodlums around Oremeji Area, Ibadan.

“Upon the strength of a distress call received by operatives of the Oyo State Police Command deployments of operational and tactical assets were swiftly executed.”

“Preliminary investigation reveals that the violence was as result of claims for supremacy among the hoodlums and in the process a gang member lost his life with others injured while motorcycles and vehicles were vandalized.

“Meanwhile, Normalcy has returned to the area as it remains under close monitoring and surveillance with high visibility policing and intensive patrols.”

“Arrests have been made and efforts are ongoing to break the criminal network for the apprehension of other criminal elements within and outside the jurisdiction.” Osifeso stated.

Concluded part of the statement maintained that, “Further developments would be communicated accordingly, please.”

A Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party and former Local Government Chairman of Ibadan North Local Government, Demola Omotoso has accused Governor Seyi Makinde of abandoning the political structure that fought for his victory in the 2019 gubernatorial election stating that many of those who are now his Lieutenants are alien to the struggle that gave him victory in the last poll or they were on the other side then.

He therefore advised the Governor to look for those who worked for his victory in 2019 with the same zeal he used in the build-up to the last election. He asked him to court them all over.

Omotoso who was Aanuoluwapo Omorinde’s guest on this week’s edition of BOTTOM LINE on IBR 92.5fm Ibadan said “it annoys me whenever we demand justice and some people talk about the vault being opened. I was the returning Officer for my party, the PDP in my local government in the 2019 gubernatorial election. If you don’t understand what politics is, you don’t get such assignment! My local government produced the highest votes for the governor in the election and that shows how much we worked but all of a sudden, we were sidelined. All we are asking for, is justice and equity. Many of those who are now with the governor are aliens to the struggle then”.

He speaks further “there was practically no meeting called then, that I did not attend to ensure that Engineer Seyi Makinde win the election. I know the governor to be a deliberate person. He doesn’t just take decisions without thinking it through. So, I want to believe that he is also deliberate in his decision to sideline some of us but I advise him to change”.
He alleged that there are plans to also sideline him in his local government.

“One thing I will not condone is the plan to sideline in my local government. By all standards, if you call for PDP Leaders in my local government using the two parameters, I am qualified but there are plans to sideline me too. Those who are parading themselves as leaders of the party in Ibadan North Local Government have at one time or the other left the party except for myself and Chief Hazeem Gbolarumi who have not left the PDP since inception. I joined the PDP in year 2000 and since then, I have never left the party and will not for whatsoever reason leave”.

When asked if he was aware of his appointment as Chairman, Governing Council, the Polytechnic Ibadan, Omotoso said he was never given any appointment because he was not officially informed. He however admitted that he heard of what played out but said he was not interested in talking about it.

When reminded that Governor Seyi Makinde facilitated a national assignment at the party level for him in 2019 and that the same man cannot turn against him, the former Local Government boss said “all these things are not beggarly. I laboured and worked for my party. I served as the Executive Chairman of my local government twice and in Caretaker capacity twice. So, I have lived for the PDP.

“There are three elected Executive positions in Nigeria; that of the President, Governor and the Chairman. I am happy to have served as a Chairman. So, as regards the national assignment, I have paid my due.”

Lagos Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has appointed Dr. Nurudeen Oluremi Olaleye as acting Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH) formerly known as Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH) Ikorodu.

Olaleye was the Rector of LASPOTECH before it became LASUSTECH.

Sanwo-Olu recently signed the bills for the establishment of additional two universities in the State.

They are Lagos State University of Education, LASUED, and Lagos State University of Science and Technology.

Sanwo-Olu assented to the bills transmitting Lagos State Polytechnic in Ikorodu, Isolo, and Surulere campuses to the University of Science and Technology, as well as Adeniran Ogunsanya Colleges of Education, Ijanikin and Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, Epe to Lagos State University of Education.

Police arrest Couple with Fresh Humans Parts in Abeokuta
CP Lanre Bankole of Oguns State Command and Couple Arrested with Fresh Human Parts. The Ogun State police command says it has arrested one Kehinde Oladimeji, 43, and wife Adejumoke Raji , 35, for being in possession of fresh different human parts.

DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the State Police Public Relations Officer, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta.

According to Oyeyemi, the couple who are residents of 72, MKO Abiola way , Leme , Abeokuta were arrested following a report lodged at Kemta Divisional Headquarters by one chief Moshood Ogunwolu, the Baale of Leme Community.

Oyeyemi noted that the Baale , who reported that one Pastor Adisa Olarewaju who is a co-tenant with the suspects informed him of offensive odours coming out from the room of the suspects.

“Upon the complaint, the DPO Kemta Division, CSP Adeniyi Adekunle , quickly led his detectives to the scene where search was conducted.

” On searching the room, a plastic bowl containing fresh different parts of human being was discovered in the room, and the couple were promptly arrested.

“On interrogation, the suspects confessed they were herbalists and that the human parts comprises of hands, breasts and other parts were given to them by one Michael who they claimed resided in Adatan area of Abeokuta.

“All efforts to locate the said Michael proved abortive as the suspects could not locate his house.

“It will be recalled that a dismembered body of an unknown person was found in a swamp area at Leme area of Abeokuta about a week ago, it is not yet clear whether the parts is that of the found body or not,” he said.

Meanwhile, the commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole , has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to Homicide Section of the state criminal investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation.

The CP vowed that anyone directly or indirectly involved in the crime would be brought to book to serve as a deterrent to others.

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, on Friday, denied writing Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, to solicit support for a proposed wedding in Kano State.

A letter had gone viral on the internet where the royal father purportedly solicited money for the Kano wedding.

The letter dated February 8, 2022, addressed to Oyetola, was received on behalf of the governor, by the office of Special Adviser to the governor on Chieftaincy Affairs.

The letter read in parts, “I have the instruction of the His Imperial Majesty, Oba (Dr.) Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, the Oluwo of Iwo, to notify you of Oluwo’s decision to marry a princess from Kano Emirate, to be precise, Ado Bayero Dynasty.

“I wish to remind your Excellency that this kind of royal wedding within two notable traditional institutions in Nigeria will require huge expenses, which necessitate the support of the state government financially, even logistically.”

But when contacted, Press Secretary to Oluwo, Alli Ibraheem, said the palace did not author any letter.

He said, “We didn’t author any letter. The letterhead you saw is not the one used by Oluwo. Moreso, if Baba will write government, it will carry his signature.”

Oluwo’s marriage to his Jamaican wife, Ms. Chanel Chin, had crashed in December 2019.

OYO State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), has berated Governor Seyi Makinde for allowing entire Oyo State be thrown into total darkness following the government’s erroneous closure of the office of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBDEC) on Wednesday.

Chairman of the party, Mr. Ajiboye Isaac Omodewu condemned the government for closing the IBDEC office instead of finding a means to settle over N450 million bills his administration is owing the distribution company.

Omodewu lambasted the Oyo state government for allowing the entire state thrown into 24 hours darkness as a result of its inefficiency and poor management of the state’s resources.

He said the development whereby IBDEC’s management claimed that the government owed it N450 electricity bill in the last three years is an indication of the poor administrative efficiency of Governor Makinde and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government.

Omodewu said in the last 24 hours major businesses in Oyo have been paralysed, hospitals in comatose and artisans are also groaning due to lack of electricity. These according to him has escalated the rate of crime in the last few hours where hoodlums and men of underworld took advantage of the situation to inflict pains and series of robberies on innocent citizens.

The party therefore urged citizens of the state to make up their minds and use the coming 2023 governorship election to remove Makinde and PDP as they have nothing to offer other than the pains they have inflicted on the state and the citizens since 2019.

The party also urged the Federal Government to wade into the matter as IBDEC is one of the revenue generations base of the government, which ought not to have been clamped down on just like that by a state government, and if at all not even the one that is owning the company.

APC also berated Makinde for turning Oyo into huge refuse dump as most major highways are now dotted with refuse dumps. He lamented that the refuse management system under the present administration has collapsed.