Category: Politics

Mudashiru Obasa, speaker of the Lagos house of assembly, says the legislature will make laws in the areas of property and economy to protect indigenes of the state.

On Tuesday, Obasa was unanimously re-elected as speaker after the proclamation of the state’s 10th assembly by Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of the state.

The emergence of Obasa as the speaker of the 10th assembly means that he will be occupying the position for the third consecutive term.

In his acceptance speech, the speaker said Lagos is a “Yoruba land” and that laws passed by the assembly will now be translated to Yoruba language.

Obasa added that the assembly will ensure that laws are made to protect the interests of indigenous people of Lagos, adding that lawmakers will “reverse all that is reversible to protect the interest of the indigenes”.

“Lagos is a Yoruba land as against the assertions of some people that it is a no-man’s land,” he said.

“Therefore, part of our legislative agenda is to ensure the translation of laws passed by this House to Yoruba Language.

“We also aim at achieving our collective goals of creating a robust legislative framework that protects the interest of our people.

“Going forward in this wise, we are going to employ all legislative instruments for the support of the indigenes of Lagos.

“There would be laws and resolutions in the areas of economy and commerce, property and titles.”

In the build-up to the February and March elections in Lagos, there were divisive statements made on and off social media.

The rhetoric heightened tension during the election, amid reports of intimidation and harassment of voters who were not indigenes of the state, on election day.

The Federal Government has declared Monday, June 12 as a public holiday in commemoration of 2023 Democracy Day celebration.

This was contained in a statement issued by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Dr Oluwatoyin Akinlade, on behalf of the Federal Government.

While congratulating Nigerians on the occasion, Akinlade stated that the country’s democratic journey has encountered stormy and smooth sails, just like in many other climes.

Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has told the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) to return to school of political party management before dreaming of returning to Osun government house anytime soon adding the door is permanently shut to darkness.

The PDP congratulated the embattled APC for at least summoning courage to confront the returning of their leader now turned enemy, former Governor Rauf Aregbesola with an acrimonious stakeholders meeting which is the first they could muster since the good people of Osun State retired them from the government house.

In a statement by the Chairman of the party, Sunday Bisi, PDP warned the Osun APC to stay clear of using PDP’s name to keep their party’s name in the media space and face the internal war that has bedeviled it.

He stated that the PDP has come to stay in Osun, adding that the administration of the people’s Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke will succeed because it’s mantra “Imole” is an indication of it’s target to illuminate the entire Osun State.

Hon Sunday Bisi maintained that the PDP is aware that the APC is using the avenue to flood the media space with different narration, hiding under PDP’s name to spite Rauf Aregbesola who decided to return to the state and celebrate his homecoming adding that the APC should learn to mend its own fence.

He said, ” Osun APC needs to return to school of political party management before dreaming of returning to Osun government house anytime soon because the door is permanently shut to darkness for ever.

“We will congratulate them for at least summoning courage to confront the returning of their leader now turned enemy, former Governor Rauf Aregbesola with an acrimonious stakeholders meeting which is the first they could muster since the good people of Osun State retired them from the government house.

“Let me warn the Osun APC to stay clear of using our party’s name to keep the APC name in the media space and face the internal war that has bedeviled them.

“PDP has come to stay in Osun and the administration of the people’s Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke will succeed because it’s mantra “Imole” is an indication of it’s target to illuminate the entire Osun State.

“PDP is aware that the APC is using the avenue to flood the media space with different narration hiding under our party’s name to spite Rauf Aregbesola who decided to return to the state and celebrate his homecoming, APC should learn to mend their own fence and leave us out of their quagmire.

“As a democratic party, we sympathize with the APC, for boxing themselves aground out of their own arrogance and deliberate disdain for development of Osun State”

It is not the making of our great party for APC to abscond from responsive governance and instead chose to dump the state in the gutters of hopelessness to the consternation of stakeholders in the state.

The erstwhile ruling party should accept to sink in their fate, brought about by their own negligence, lackadaisical approach to governance and wicked corruption while they held sway.

While we will not ask APC not to fight or fund periodic acrimony against themselves, the defeated party should however leave our great party out of their troubles or use the good name of our party to mitigate their pains, Sunday Bisi concluded.

38-year-old Entrepreneur and Member-elect representing Odo-Otin State Constituency, Hon Adewale Egbedun has emerged as Speaker Osun State House of Assembly.

Egbedun was elected during the inauguration of 8th Osun Assembly on Tuesday at the Chamber in Osogbo.

He graduated from University of East London. He is an entrepreneur with interest in Agribusiness

ODUDUWA NEWS reports that Governor Ademola Adeleke, his deputy, Prince Adewusi, Osun PDP Chairman and dignitaries attended the inauguration.

The Executive Chairman of Saki West Local Government, Honourable Sharafadeen Omirinde, has just been suspended by Oyo State House of Assembly.

The petition was brought to the House by members of the Local Government legislature and signed by over two-third of the Councilors in Saki West LG.

Omirinde was accused of illegally diverting the sum of 63 Million Naira belonging to the Local Government into a private purse, religious bigotry, anti-party activities Amon others.

The House declared Omirinde suspended on Tuesday during its plenary sitting.

The House also directed the vice chairman of the local government to take over while Omirinde steps aside to allow for proper investigation by concerned committee of the house.

Less than 48 hours to the commencement of the proposed nationwide strike by labor Unions across the country, Oyo state governor, Seyi Makinde has moved to review salaries of civil servants in the state as part of efforts to cushion the effect of the oil subsidy removal.

Consequently, Governor Makinde has set up a committee comprising both representatives of the labor Unions and the state government. They include; the Service HOS, Permanent Secretary, Service Matters, Permanent Secretary, Establishment, Director Service Matters, Director ,Establishment, Accountant General of the state, and Permanent Secretary, Finance.

ODUDUWA NEWS reports that stakeholders present at the meeting from the side of the organised labor are ; the Nigeria Labor Congress NLC, Nigeria Union of Teachers NUT, Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees NULGE, Nigeria Union of Pensioners NUP, Joint Health Sector Union JOHESU, and Joint Negotiating Council JNC and the Chairman, Association of Senior Staff.

The governor while meeting with leadership of the unions in the state at the executive council chambers on Monday gave the Committee eight weeks to come up with a workable minimum wage.”

For this administration, with all sincerity, we think it’s time to engage and ensure that we are proactive irrespective of what is happening or coming at the national level, we already prepared for it here and we can run our programme.

“If you all remembered I said there is nothing stopping Oyo state from paying more than the national minimum wage if we had the resources, if we can expand our economy to that extent and I still believe we can do it.

“We can pay in Oyo state beyond the national minimum wage and we have to expand our economy and ensure that the relationship between the leadership of the labor unions and government remain cordial and we focus on the single objective, how to make life better for the people of Oyo state.” he said.

Governor Makinde who maintained that that there was no trust deficit between government and the labour in the state said his administration is poised to increase the Internally generated revenue IGR of the state to give the state leverage to do better in terms of meeting the needs of the people.

Earlier, Chairman Nigeria Labour Congress in the state Mr Kayode Martins who led the organised labour said the review of the new wage is long overdue lamenting the hardship being experienced by Nigeria workers since fuel subsidy was halted in last one week.

Mr Martins, however , appealed to federal government to thread with caution in handling the issue of subsidy removal.

The meeting had in attendance, the Deputy governor of the state , Barrister Bayo Lawal, , Head of Service, Olubunmi Oni, the Chief of Staff , Otunba Segun Ogunwuyi and the National Vice Chairman of the People’s Democratic party PDP, Ambassador Taofeek Arapaja.

Others are , Senator Gbenga Babalola, Senator Monsurat Sunmonu, Dr Saka Balogun, Alhaji Omokunmi Mustapha , Alhaja Mutiat Ladoja, Chief Sunday Ogunlade, Comrade Titilola Sodo and some traditional rulers in the state.

The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke has exercised the authority vested in him by Section 105, sub-section 3 of the Nigerian constitution by announcing the dissolution of the 7th Osun State Assembly and proclamation for the 8th Assembly.

Governor Adeleke conveyed the dissolution and the proclamation to the Clerk of the state Assembly as confirmed in a statement issued by his Spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed.

In two separate letters to the clerk, the Governor cited relevant sections of the Constitution to affirm that the Assembly is dissolved with immediate effect while the new Assembly is to be inaugurated on Tuesday 6th, 2023 by 10am.

The letters read as follows:

DISSOLUTION OF THE 7TH ASSEMBLY OF OSUN STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY

I write to convey the dissolution of the 7th Assembly and it reads as follows:

“Whereas it is provided in Section 105 Subsection 1 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended, that a House of Assembly shall stand dissolved at the expiration of a period of four years commencing from the date of the first sitting of the House.

“Now, therefore, I, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke, the Governor of Osun State of Nigeria, in exercise of powers bestowed upon me by Section 105 Subsection 3 aforesaid, and of all powers enabling me in that behalf, hereby proclaim that the seventh (7th) Assembly of Osun State House of Assembly is hereby dissolved with immediate effect.

“Given under my hand and the public seal of Osun State of Nigeria at Osogbo, this Friday, 2nd Day of June, 2023”.

PROCLAMATION FOR THE HOLDING OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE 8TH ASSEMBLY OF OSUN STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY

I write to convey my proclamation for the holding of the 8th Assembly and it reads as follows:

“Whereas it is provided in Section 105 Subsection 3 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended, that the person elected as Governor of a State shall have powers to issue a Proclamation for the holding of the First Session of the House of Assembly of the State concerned immediately after his being sworn in.

“Now, therefore, I, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke, the Governor of Osun State of Nigeria, in exercise of powers bestowed upon me by Section 105 Subsection 3 aforesaid, and of all powers enabling me in that behalf, hereby proclaim that the First Session of the Eighth (8th) Assembly of Osun State House of Assembly shall hold on Tuesday, 6th June, 2019 at 10am in Osun State House of Assembly.

“Given under my hand and the public seal of Osun State of Nigeria at Osogbo, this Friday, 2nd Day of June, 2023”.

The Oyo State government has announced Alhaji Oluwatomiwa Omolewa, former Park Management System (PMS) Secretary, as the new Chairman.

According to a statement signed by the Oyo Chief Press Secretary, Sulaimon Olanrewaju, Alhaji Kasali Ajisafe Lawal aka Baba Bola will also serve as the secretary. 

The appointment is part of the reorganization of the PMS embarked upon by the state government.

Details later.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Kogi State, Dino Melaye, has challenged the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, to a show of support for the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.

The governor, a PDP member, is widely believed to have supported the campaign bid of President Bola Tinubu who sought election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Aggrieved by Atiku’s emergence in the party’s primaries as opposed to a southerner, Makinde had joined a group of five PDP governors known as the G5 in the lead-up to the February 25 presidential election.

With the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declaring Tinubu as the winner, Atiku and others have filed petitions at the tribunal to challenge the victory.

Speaking on Saturday at a retreat for PDP elected officials held in Bauchi State, the Oyo governor said, “We were through a gruelling election, and whether we want to admit it or not, we had issues amongst ourselves during the election, but you know what?

“The healing process will have to start, and the healing process will start now. We must focus on things that will unite us. We must, as a matter of urgency, be forward-looking.”

During the question-and-answer portion of the event, Melaye redirected the governor’s words to him.

Asking Makinde to support Atiku’s claim that the election process was compromised, Melaye argued that the gesture “will show that the healing has truly started.”

“I just want to start by appreciating the comment of Governor Seyi Makinde this morning, particularly where he said, ‘Healing starts now,’” he said.
“And the way to start that healing is, I would be glad if between now, next week, and two weeks that we’ll be at the tribunal, to see Governor Seyi Makinde walk into the tribunal venue and sit down, to support the party, our candidate.”

According to the Kogi PDP candidate, it would demonstrate to Nigerians that the healing has started and show the world the PDP is united.

The Peoples Democratic Party has demanded resignation of Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu SAN.

In a statement made available to newsmen by State Party as read in party:

“The handlers and managers of Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, Governor of Ondo State, have once again proved that, they are not on top of their assignments. They will rather take everybody in the state for granted.

“Since Sahara Reporters reported that the governor is bedridden and incapacitated, Akeredolu’s handlers responded by fueling public anxiety and suspicion, instead of telling the State, where exactly he is, or getting him to address Ondo State, from wherever he is on planet earth.

“When Akeredolu did not return to his duty post after his celebrated annual leave in March this year, tongues started wagging. At the inauguration of President Bola Tinubu in Abuja, Akeredolu was conspicuously absent.

“The deafening silence from government information machinery suddenly saturated social media space with old videos of Akeredolu dancing and singing praises.

“On the eve of the inauguration of 10th Ondo State House of Assembly, there were reports of an ‘Owo cabal’ led by Akeredolu’s heir apparent, Babajide mobilising Members-elect to make a legislator from Owo Speaker, as a fall back position to retain the leadership of the state in Owo, in the event of the worst happening, after impeaching the incumbent Deputy Governor.

“These speculations almost put the state on edge until this morning when the Ondo State House of Assembly retained the present power structure of Speakership of the Assembly in Ondo Central Senatorial District.

“If Akeredolu’s handlers had done the needful, the state would have been spared the unnecessary anxiety.

As mortals, any human being can fall sick. Whether in public office or private life. Rotimi Akeredolu is employed by the people of Ondo State, maintained with taxpayers’ money. So, it is criminal and a great disservice to keep mum over his health status and his whereabouts.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ondo State Chapter, demands that, those hiding the governor should tell the people where he is to save the state from speculation.

In 2010, when then President Umar Yar’Adua was incapacitated due to ill-health, Akeredolu was one of the most vociferous voices, calling for his resignation and allowing the then Vice-President to take over. If for whatever reason, Akeredolu can no longer discharge his official responsibilities, the most reasonable thing to do is to hand over to the Deputy Governor as required by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).

Our party joins millions of Ondo State people to pray for Akeredolu’s quick recovery, but nobody should play politics with his ill-health. Nobody should ground the state beyond its present state. Let Akeredolu resign, if he is no longer fit to be governor”.