The governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde has advised the citizens of Iseyin not to sell their land at a ridiculous price because in the next five years Iseyin land will be greatly appreciated.
According to ODUDUWA NEWS Correspondent, Gov. Makinde promised to ensure that Iseyin is turned to economic nerve of Oyo State through solid minerals.
Makinde made this disclosure today at Iseyin while giving his speech at the ongoing burial ceremony of the late Aseyin.
Makinde who was giving a reply to the statement credited to the President of Oke-Ogun Development Consultative Forum ODCF, Barr. Hamed Raji SAN where he implored Gov. Makinde to appeal to OYSROMA to ensure that some dilapidated roads in Iseyin are repaired to a motorable level.
Makinde said, I would not forget my campaign promise to ensure that Agriculture becomes the mainstay of Oyo State economy with Oke-Ogun becoming its major drive.
He said, he would ensure that tourism which is an important sector in Oke-Ogun is also given a major priority being part of accelerated development he campaigned with before his emergence as the Governor of Oyo State.
Makinde vouched to ensure that Ikere Gorge dam and other tourist centres in Oke-Ogun are given facelift.
The Head of the Oyo Mesi, who is also the Basorun of Oyo, High Chief Yussuf Ayoola, said ten contestants have been shortlisted by the Oyo Mesi, who are the kingmakers, for the stool of the Alaafin of Oyo. The Director of Media and Publicity to the Alaafin of Oyo, Bode Durojaiye, disclosed this on Friday in a statement
Basorun stated that members of the Oyo Mesi would soon meet to deliberate on the next step, which he said would be an Ifa (oracle) consultation to pick the next Alaafin among the shortlisted contestants.
The statement read, “Whoever emerges among the shortlisted aspirants will be the candidate and the next Alaafin of Oyo.
“The state government is not only aware but carried along in all our proceedings before, during, and after the interview period. The state government was ably represented by the chairperson of the Atiba Local Government Area and some officials of the council.
“On the Alapinni matter, he is a member of the Oyo Mesi but presently indisposed. To follow the due process, he needs to be represented in order to keep him abreast of development. He cannot be left out in the scheme of things. Hence, we request his representative. Health is wealth. We wish him a quick recovery.”
“People should watch their utterances and refrain from reckless comments capable of causing an implosion.
“People entrusted with the peace and tranquility of the town should not just rush to the press for mischief. It is better for one to find out about what he or she doesn’t know from the authentic source, than going to the press to cause disaffection.
It was gathered that the Iba Samu of Oyo, High Chief High Chief Lamidi Olayanju, said he knew nothing about the shortlisted candidates.
Olayanju said, “I called Basorun and he told me that he was the one behind the news that 10 persons had been shortlisted. Four of us know nothing about it. When we completed the interview on Thursday, we all agreed that we would meet next Tuesday to do that but hearing that 10 persons had been shortlisted on the radio is news to me. I called Basorun and he told me he authored the news.
“I heard it on the radio that we had shortlisted 10 but I am telling you I am not part of that and I called four of us and they said they did not know anything about it. Agbaakin (High Chief Asinmiyu) told me he was not part of the decision to pick 10 contestants; Akinniku (High Chief Amusa Yusuf) also told me that he was not part of it; Alapini ( High Chief Rasheed Sheu) is indisposed.”
Responding to if the rest of the kingmakers would abide by the shortlisted contestants, he said, “Can you, yourself, abide by such a decision? We don’t know anything about it, we didn’t know when he picked them, so, we can’t abide by such.
“If we agree with him and the remaining contestants drag all of us to court, how are we going to defend what we were not part of?”
A poll conducted by NOI Polls in early September has revealed that the 2023 presidential election is a three-horse race between the candidates of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi; All Progressives Congress, Mr Bola Tinubu; and Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, with Obi having an edge.
The APC Presidential Campaign Council has, however, rejected the polls describing it as “irresponsible, unscientific and biased.”
Also, the Atiku Campaign Organisation faulted the process and results of the poll, saying it lacked basics of a poll.
The poll, which was commissioned by Anap Foundation, showed that while both Tinubu and Abubakar were tied in the second position with 13 per cent each, Obi had 21 per cent with Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party polling three per cent.
According to a statement issued by Anap Foundation and signed by its chairman, Mr Atedo Peterside on Thursday, “The results showed a significant lead for Mr. Peter Obi with 21 per cent of voters proposing to vote for him if the presidential election were to be conducted today; and 13 per cent each proposing to vote for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who are both tied in second place. Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso was a distant fourth with 3 per cent of voters proposing to vote for him.
“Mr. Peter Obi’s 8 percentage point lead at this early stage is significant, but not sufficient to separate him completely from a leading pack of candidates scoring 21 per cent, 13 per cent and 13 per cent respectively.”
The statement added “Undecided voters and those who prefer not to reveal their preferred candidate add up to a whopping 32 per cent and 15 per cent respectively. The gender split of undecided voters shows that 39 per cent of women are undecided versus 27 per cent of male voters.”
Anap Foundation also stated the September 2022 Polls were inconclusive in terms of establishing a clear winner, as the undecided voters were large enough to turn the tables. “However, Anap Foundation has concluded that the trends are clear enough to establish the front runners and so our subsequent polls will concentrate on the four leading candidates only.”
In a statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, on Thursday, the ruling party. said it was unperturbed by what it described as ‘dubious NOI polls’.
The statement reads further, “The attention of the APC Presidential Campaign Council has been drawn to a poll conducted by the NOI Polls which made wild and incredible permutations on the presidential elections.
“We are unperturbed by these dubious and unreliable statistics because our research shows that NOI Polls have been off the mark at critical election periods in recent times.”
It added: “We know, as a matter of fact, the owners of NOI and where their political interest lies and wish to advise NOI to stop polluting the political system with irresponsible, unscientific and biased polling so that we don’t expose the puppeteers pulling its strings.”
The PCC said the ruling party was putting every necessary machinery in motion to win the presidential elections with a margin that would be too wide to contest.
It said the party’s candidate, Bola Tinubu recorded the highest votes of a senator across the country under the Social Democratic Party in July 1992 and would do it on the nationwide scale on February 25, 2023.
Spokesman of the Atiku Campaign Orgnisation, Daniel Bwala, who was on ChannelsTV, said: “A normal poll that will attract credibility would be a poll that clearly in one breath as you release the report, you must also release the sample size and the margin of error. These are basics because the sample size and the margin of error will help in identifying whether the polling was actually carried out correctly or not. Then, you can stretch further to ask for the sampling. Was it done by a phone call? If it was done by a phone call, then the people who didn’t have phone probably were not part of the polling.
“You also go to the extent of asking the demographics and then the place where the polling was carried out. I know they say is a random sampling. But then, because results, I am tempted to believe that this polling was carried out online because Peter Obi online has a measure of people who are very active for him, much more than other candidates. And I will tell you why, because there was an algorithm and data analytics that was carried out that came with the finding that 57.7 percent of people who follow Peter Obi and engage for him on social media do not live in Nigeria; in fact, majority of whom are both on twitter; they are not real human beings.
“If you take away 57.5 percent of people who are active for him, who probably live abroad and they don’t have voter cards and they are not likely to come home to vote, what it means is that Peter Obi is basking in the euphoria of hallucination and this polling is true reflection f that.
“I wouldn’t want to say that they are surrogates of Peter Obi. But the interesting thing you can find even go deeper about the pollsters that they are surrogates of Peter Obi.
“The interesting thing you can find out from the result is that if you look at it, a finding from 46 years to 59 and 61 above are the most that said they are willing to vote, meanwhile Peter Obi’s movement has the demography of the young people,” Bwala said.
The PDP Presidential Campaign Committee has been finally revealed as Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde appointed as the Vice Chairman Campaign Committee for South.
Below is the full list of the composition for the PDP Presidential Campaign Organization.
List Of PDP Presidential Campaign Organization Members From Oyo State.
Ekiti State Governor Fayemi has praised his counterpart in Oyo State as a dedicated, open-minded leader who forges bonds that cut across political differences.
On Thursday, the 7.2 km Bashorun-General Gas-Akobo-Barracks road and the over-head bridge at General Gas-Akobo received praise from the chairman of the Nigeria Governor’s Forum.
He praised Governor Makinde’s sense of accountability for finishing the project his predecessor started and added that the infrastructure will directly affect people and commuters using the route in terms of the economy.
The event’s host governor, Seyi Makinde, stated during his speech that the project was a fulfillment of his election campaign pledge that all road projects started by his government would be finished.
He continued by saying that his administration has been injecting twelve.
He added that his administration has been injecting the sum of twelve billion naira into Oyo’s economy every month as a result of prompt payment of workers salaries. He noted that the road project will boost economic activities in the area and it environs as it links four local governments together.
The event was attended by top government functionaries, traditional rulers PDP governorship candidate in Lagos, State party chairmen in Lagos.
The Southwest Zonal Abridged Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has constituted major committees to ensure victory at the 2023 presidential election for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The National Vice Chairman of Party, Southwest, Isaac Kekemeke, announced the composition of the committees during a press conference, after the party’s zonal meeting on Wednesday, in Ibadan.
Kekemeke said the composition of the committees was to ensure victory for the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, particularly in the South-West zone, during the elections.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State is the Chairperson of the Special Committee on Eminent Persons’ Engagement, while former governor of Ekiti State, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo is the co-Chairperson, Advisory Committee, with Chief Bayosolu Pius Akinyelure.
Mr Kekemeke listed members of the Adebayo-led committee as Tajudeen Olusi, Bamidele Oluwajana, Henry Ajomale, and the party’s Zonal Secretary, Vincent Bewaji.
He said the two committees were constituted to ensure that what happened to the late Obafemi Awolowo and late MKO Abiola did not happen again.
“This is a lifetime chance to produce the President of Nigeria and we can’t afford to play with it as a party.
“As people in charge of managing the party in the zone, it has become a passion for us to deliver impressively to the APC.
“If the best, most experienced man with antecedents is from your zone, why won’t you be proud of him and won’t you tell your people to love themselves?” he said.
Kekemeke said they would do all within their capabilities to rally the zone for the APC presidential candidate.
He said that the party would soon announce the six reconciliatory committees to visit the six states in the South-west toward rallying support for Mr Tinubu.
“As a result of this conviction of ours, call it passion or obsession, we will continue to meet, deliberate and take decision to further our desire,” he said.
Kekemeke said that the committees would work together with party leaders toward achieving the set goals.
Present at the press conference includes, Oyo State APC Chairman, Isaac Omodewu and other party leaders in the Southwest.
There has been growing concern on the calls by some Nigerians via Twitter to mobilize against Independent Electoral Commission INEC over allegation of fake PVC registration.
ODUDUWA NEWS in its investigation today discovered that the hashtag #OccupyINEC is now trending on Twitter as many tweeps have been calling for mass action against INEC on the 27th of this month.
ODUDUWA NEWS gathered that the trending #OccupyINEC is in connection to fake date of births, names allegedly detected in the voters registration list.
In the voters registration list obtained by ODUDUWA NEWS, there were some mismatches identified in the said list. It was found out that some names had non-existing date of birrths like 1900, 1901 and some identities found out to be old than the ages recorded for them.
Below are some of the tweeps condemning such act and calling for a nationwide protest against INEC.
A popular Tweep- NeferTiti said, #OccupyINEC is a Peaceful Protest by the Citizens of Nigeria against the APC appointed/dominated INEC. 2023 is now in serious jeopardy. My People, are we going to allow the compromised INEC deprive us of a bright future? Are we going to allow the APC point guns to our faces?
@Tomisin said, “there should be nationwide protest against @inecnigeria if not all our efforts will be in vain. You can’t imagine the fraud in North central and Other APC controlled state. @inecnigeria is the real enemy”
Another tweep @Ejimba said, only in Nigeria, people born in 1900 are still alive. An old woman is born in 1983. A woman now looks like a man APC is a scam.
@Omotayo Williams said, “On the day of the election we need to take out beds and sit down at our polling units, @inecnigeria needs to tell us how they intend to accredit fake voters with BVAS. They can’t say they don’t know. INEC is a scam #OccupyINEC”.
Though, INEC is yet to make official statement on the said allegation as efforts are currently ongoing to ensure that the officials of INEC address the matter as soon as possible.
Simeon Adegbola Oyeleke, a member of the Oyo State House of Assembly who represents Ogo-oluwa/Surulere, has officially joined the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Hon. Sanjo Adedoyin, the majority leader of the House, and other lawmakers welcomed Hon. Oyeleke, who recently defected from the All Progressives Congress, APC, into the PDP, the party in power in Oyo State.
Hon Oyeleke was presented with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP flag at the brief ceremony.
Hon. Oyeleke stated in his letter of defection that he left his previous political party, the APC, due to some unresolvable internal conflicts. The letter was read by the Clerk, Mrs. Oludara Awe.
The letter read in part ” APC in Oyo State has failed to uphold the tenets of democracy especially as it relates to justice and equity in its dealings with party faithful. I can’t continue to be in a party that does not value my interest and that of my supporters. The PDP has shown great potentials in Oyo State and it remains the party to beat at all levels in 2023.”
It was also announced in the defection letter that Hon Oyeleke has joined the PDP with thousands of his political supporters.
The Speaker, Hon Adebo Ogundoyin whi welcomed the lawmaker to the ruling party applauded his resolve to join the PDP in Oyo State.
While reacting to the defection, the Minority Leader of the House, Hon Asimiyu Alarape wished the Lawmaker well but noted that crisis management has always been part of politics.
” Politics is about management of crisis. Anyone can feel aggrieved. This is not new in politics. Anyway, we wish you well ” Hon Alarape said.
The Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Atiku Abubakar has told Governor Makinde that it will not be possible to remove the national chairman of the party, Iyorcha Ayu unless the constitution of the party is changed and restructured.
Atiku made this disclosure today at an interactive session held in Ibadan with PDP party members and stakeholders across Southwest.
Makinde had earlier asked publicly that Atiku Abubakar should ensure the unification of the party by ensuring that party chairman, Iyorcha Ayu steps aside.
In his reply, Atiku said, “the party is supreme and has its guiding constitution which must be followed strictly before embarking on any step to restructure the party.
“What Gov Makinde requested for is achievable but it must be followed with guiding principles and constitution of the party”, said Atiku.
The Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Seyi Makinde has told the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar to tell the national chairman of the party, Iyorcha Ayu to resign from the chairmanship position for peace to reign in the party.
According to our Correspondent in Ibadan, Makinde made the statement today while he was delivering goodwill message at the ongoing Southwest PDP zonal meeting holding at the Theophilus Hall, UCH, Ibadan.
