The All Progressives Congress APC in Oyo State has released the chairmanship candidates for the forthcoming council poll in the state,
The list of the candidates was made known today by the Secretary of the Party, Alh. Tajudeen Olanite as read in part:
“Below is the list of party faithful who emerged as Oyo APC chairmanship candidates from the primaries held on Friday, August 25 and Monday, August 28, 2023;
AFIJIO – Bamiduro Tokunbo Ademola
ATIBA: Akindele Nurudeen Oyeniyi
ATISBO: Adebayo Yisau
AKINYELE: Muili Semiu
EGBEDA: Bashiru Dauda Adeniyi
IBADAN NORTH: Adeniyi Adedayo Nurudeen
IBADAN NORTH EAST: Alonge Babatunde Olawale
IBADAN NORTH WEST: Jimoh Tesleem Babatunde
IBADAN SOUTH EAST: Babatunde Sulaimon Saheed Kobiowu
IBADAN SOUTH WEST: Abimbola Kazeem Olabamiji (Abogun)
A 29-member Central Working Committee (CWC), headed by the Deputy Governor of Ogun State, Engr. (Mrs) Noimot Salako-Oyedele, saddled with the mandate for the distribution of palliatives in the state has been empanelled by Governor Dapo Abiodun.
The composition of the Committee is aimed at ensuring that the palliatives reached every strata of the society, in line with the promise made to the people of the state by Governor Abiodun.
A statement issued on Tuesday by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the governor, Mr Lekan Adeniran, noted that there will be a similar Committee at the local governments to ensure the seamless distribution of the palliatives.
According to the statement, the Committee has the mandate to implement the various palliatives put in place by the state government for the citizens.
Members of the CWC were drawn from the 20 local government areas. They include Alhaja Salmot Badru, a former deputy governor in the state; Senator Shuaib Afolabi; Hon. Dewunmi Onanuga; Chief (Mrs) Yetunde Onanuga; Hon. Latifat Ajayi (Deputy Speaker, OGHA); Hon. Lukman Adeleye, (Minority Leader, OGHA; Alhaja Selimot Ottun; Oyindamola Oyelese Adesina; Hon. Femi Ilori-Oduntan; Ayo Shomide; Hon. (Mrs) Motunrayo Adijat Oladapo-Adeleye; Adewale Adeshina; Angel Adelaja; Ola Oresanya.
Others are Mrs Ogunremi; Mrs Abbas (Iyaloja General); Feyikemi Egbeyemi; Yemisi Dawodu; Mr Aiyelagbe Abduljabar; Damilola Otubanjo; Job Akintan; Kolawole Lawal; Biodun Akovoyan; Ayo Somide; Dr Fred-Omojole Omolayo; Mokesioluwa O. Seun-Adedamola; Hon. Oladele Kayode, Mr Sola Arobieke and representatives of labour unions.
The Committee at the local government level, according to the statement will include the council chairmen; members of the state House of Assembly; Leader of the House; secretary to the local government; former GLOs; two members from the CDAs; representative of the market women association; four nominees from non-governmental organisations and representatives from traditional rulers.
The inaugural meeting of the committee has been slated for Wednesday, August 30, 2023.
The Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke on Sunday acknowledged the unforgettable determination of the founding fathers of Osun State which culminated into creation of the state on August 27, 1991 by the then Military Head of State, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.
In a statewide address Sunday morning, Governor Adeleke recalled the selfless and long suffering efforts of the state founding fathers, which he said predated the nation’s independence and only came to fruition in 1991 with Osogbo as the state capital.
Governor Adeleke’s address was centered majorly on the solutions and positive approach of the state government to consolidate on the positive strides the state has recorded in the past three decades while pledging to pull resources together to strengthen state assets and tackle all setbacks.
“Osun has been growing from strength to strength. We have achieved a lot under our five-point agenda on workers welfare, gratuities and pension; education, affordable health care, state and social security and human capital development has yielded a skilled workforce that contributes significantly to the growth of our state and the nation” Governor Adeleke Stated.
The widely loved Osun helmsman reiterated the commitment of his administration to apply technological innovations in pursuit of workable industrial growth, education advancement and building of a sustainable commonwealth, amongst several sectors requiring government intervention.
He further called for the support of the people of the state as he strives to achieve dreams of the state’s founding fathers,
“We recognise the challenges facing our state. We regard development
Ekiti State Government has dissociated itself from the purported advertisement circulated online asking unsuspecting individuals to apply for N5bn Federal Government Palliative funds.
This was contained in statement signed and issued out today to the newsmen by the Commissioner for Information, Hon. Taiwo Olatubosun as read in part:
“It has come to the notice of the Government of Ekiti State that some fraudsters masquerading as agents of the State have placed advertisements in some online platforms asking unsuspecting members of the public to apply for the N5 billion Federal Government palliative funds.
“The Ekiti State Government hereby unequivocally disowns all online and any other form of advertisements requesting for applications to benefit from the palliative funds.
“The good people of the State are therefore advised to ignore all unauthorized advertisements purportedly placed on behalf of the State Government.
“The Government has its official channels of communicating its decisions to the Public. Members of the public are also urged to contact the Office of the State Commissioner for information for clarifications and enquiries”.
The chairman of the Senate committee on appropriations, Solomon Adeola, on Monday, said soldiers operating checkpoints around the Ikeja axis of Lagos state allegedly robbed and killed his aide, Adeniyi Oluwatosin Sanni, on Saturday, August 5, 2023. Senator Adeola made this revelation in a statement he personally signed and made available to reporters in Abuja through his media aide, Kayode Odunaro.
Shortly after the incident, Adeola said he had information that Sanni was stopped at a checkpoint around the Ojodu-Berger area of Lagos on his way to his home at Isheri by “security agents.”
He added that the deceased was asked to provide the documents of the car he was driving, which he did through a call to his wife who sent all the documents to his phone through a WhatsApp message.
The senator noted that when the wife called a while later, the late husband told him soldiers were still checking the vehicle’s particulars.
It was gathered that that was said to have been their last conversation before she was informed of the discovery of Sanni’s corpse, riddled with bullets, at the Toyota Bus Stop area of Oshodi, close to a military barrack.
Adeola said: “I am of the firm belief, based on available facts at the disposal of the Police that my aide was killed by a syndicate of soldiers operating under the newly deployed Commander of 9 Brigade, Ikeja Cantonment of the Nigeria Army, Brigadier General Nsikan John Edet, through mounting of checkpoints and robbing of lone occupants of cars.
“Top police sources familiar with the investigation informed me that a similar brutal killing and armed robbery occurred around the same Ojodu- Berger late Thursday night of August 17, 2023, resulting in the killing of another Nigerian whose body was discovered around Iyana-Ipaja after he was taken away by soldiers from the checkpoint.
“Unknown to the soldiers, the occupant of the car they killed and took away his car was the second car in a convoy of two heading towards the same destination. The first car passed the soldiers checkpoint but the second car was stopped to check his vehicle’s papers.
“On noticing the absence of the second car after a while, the occupant of the first car (name withheld) placed a call to his colleague in the second car who informed him that he was being taken to Iyana-Ipaja by the soldiers at the checkpoint.
Senator Adeola further stated: “That was the last he heard from him and his dead body was later discovered dumped on the road just like Mr. Sanni.
“The survivor in the first car reported the case to the Police and a pattern of armed robbery and killing in the area involving men in Army uniform was established.”
Adeola, therefore, called on the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja, to direct the fishing out of the killers of his aide for further investigation, prosecution, and justice for the deceased.
He said such a pattern of killings and armed robbery had been established against soldiers mounting late-night checkpoints around Ikeja with similar unreported incidents in recent times around Ikeja.
He added that the Nigerian Army cannot be seen to condone or harbour rogue elements robbing and killing innocent Nigerians within its fold.
According to him, “Till date, the black Toyota Camry of Mr. Sanni, his phones, and other valuables are yet to be recovered.”
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Wednesday confirmed 22 out of the 39 cabinet nominees sent recently by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for screening.
Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, who presided over the day’s sitting, said the confirmation followed rigorous and detailed screening of the nominees by a ad-hoc committee led by the Chief Whip of the House, Hon. Fatai Mojeed.
He commended the committee for its effectiveness and urged the confirmed nominees to always remember that they are in office to serve the people of the State and not individuals.
He also promised that the House would continue to do its best in the interest of the State.
The confirmation was done through a voice vote as Dr. Obasa mentioned the name of each of the nominees.
However, the lawmakers rejected 17 of the nominees.
Those confirmed include: Hon. Layode Ibrahim Mr. Mobolaji Ogunlende Dr. Dolapo Fasawe Hon. Bola Olumegbon Mr. Idris Aregbe Ms. Abisola Ruth Olusanya Mr. Moruf Akinderu Fatai Mr. Kayode Bolaji-Roberts Engr. Abiola Olowu Mrs. Toke Benson-Awoyinka Dr. Oreoluwa Finnih- Awokoya Mr. Yakub Adedayo Alebiosu Mr. Lawal Pedro SAN Mr. Tunbosun Alake Mr. Gbenga Oyerinde Dr. Adekunle Olayinka Dr. Jide Babatunde Mr. Afolabi Ayantayo Mr. Tokunbo Wahab Mr. Olakunle Rotimi-Akodu Mr. Jamiu Alli-Balogun Mr. Abdulkabir Ogungbo
Those not confirmed by the House include:
Mrs. Folashade Adefisayo Prof. Akin Abayomi Mr. Yomi Oluyomi Mrs. Folashade Ambrose Ms. Barakat Bakare Mr. Gbenga Omotosho Engr. Olalere Odusote; Dr. Rotimi Fashola Mrs. Bolaji Cecilia Dada Mr. Sam Egube; Mr. Olalekan Fatodu Mrs. Solape Hammond Mr. Mosopefolu George Engr. Aramide Adeyoye Mr. Seun Osiyemi Mr Rotimi Ogunwuyi Dr. Olumide Oluyinka
Before the exercise, Hon Mojeed Fatai briefed the House on the outcome of the screening exercise.
Eromosele Ebhomele Media aide to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly.
The immediate past Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has restated his commitment to progressive ideals and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State even as he stated that political parties are amalgamation of different interests and tendencies.
Ogbeni Aregbesola renewed his commitment to the party during the launch of Omoluabi Caucus of the All Progressives Congress in Ilesa, on Tuesday, August 22, 2023.
Describing the Omoluabi Caucus as one of the many caucuses in the state, the former two-term governor of Osun, noted that the caucus is not a faction of the party, but a union of like-minds in the state.
“The Omoluabi Tendency is a caucus within the All Progressives Congress (APC); actually one of the caucuses in the state. We are not a faction. We are the genuine foundation members of the party and we have no intention of abandoning the ship of the party as it navigates the most turbulent waters. We are no sprinters, but long-distance runners and we will still be standing when all the fair-weathers have gone.
“A political party is actually an agglomeration of interests and tendencies. Reading well from the United States where we borrowed the Presidential System, we can see that the Republican Party is made up of big businesses, nationalists, religious right and others. The Democratic Party, on the other hand, is composed of welfarists, labour unions, ethnic and sexual minorities and others.
“What we have come to do here today is to renew our commitment to the path of progressive ideology and politics as inherited from our great past heroes, beginning from Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Abraham Adesanya, Chief Bola Ige and others in the pantheon of progressive politics too numerous to mention.
“Emerging from the ashes of the near annihilation of our party in the governorship election of 2022 and the general election earlier this year, we should rise up and renew our strength and reclaim our place in the political firmament in Osun.
“We have been at this juncture before, after the 2003 election in which our party lost the stakes and was at its nadir in the state. At that point, likeminded progressives under the banner of Oranmiyan emerged to begin a movement that mobilised our members and the people of the state into a veritable electoral machine that won the 2007 governorship election which ushered an epoch making two term administration in the state and handed over to a successor from our party,” Ogbeni Aregbesola stated.
Ogbeni Aregbesola stated that it is clear the people have not rejected the progressives in Osun, giving the warm reception accorded to his tendency; they were only unhappy with the managers of the party at that time.
“Given the enthusiastic and heartfelt reception accorded us by the people anytime we are in the state, it is clear that they did not reject us or our party. They are only not well pleased with the individuals who have turned our party to personal fiefdom and abandoned the path of progressivism and the interest of the people.
“Our party failed principally because of indiscipline and lack/loss of focus. This is manifested in form of lack of character and incompetence. Character is the mental and moral qualities required in an individual to occupy certain office or perform certain task. Competence is the skill required to get specific task done. It is bad when one of the two is absent, but it is always catastrophic when both are absent. It is beyond disputation how the absence of these virtues spelt doom for our party in the recent past.
“These virtues are integral to the Omoluabi ethos in Yoruba belief system. When we were at the helm here, we not only lived this ethos, we made conscious effort to revive and promote it among the generality of the people of the state. We should therefore consciously return to this path of rectitude and distinguish ourselves as Omoluabi in its most pristine form,” Ogbeni Aregbesola charged members of the newly formed caucus”.
After the formal launch of the caucus, the group adopted its charter which includes; Progressivism, Omoluabi Ethos, Discipline, Competence and Inclusivity as its core values.
Members of the caucus are drawn from each ward of the 332 wards in the state and were represented by five members each from each of the local governments in the state.
A group loyal to Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has tackled the APC National Secretary, Dr. Ajibola Basiru over statement credited to him declaring the State Governor as incompetent.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Forum Chairman, Hon. Sola Makanjuola and the Spokesperson, Oluwasanmi Olabisi as read in part:
“Our attention has been drawn to the criticism made by Sen. Ajibola Basiru, The present National Secretary of the All Progressive Congress at a reception organized for him by the APC Leadership of Osogbo Federal Constituency declaring Gov. Ademola Adeleke who is from the party that defeated and stopped him from going to Senate for second term incompetent.
“What do we expect from a loser ? A loser rants like bird and will never be happy to see something good about a winner. Lest we forget, that Sen. Ajibola who spent four years at the house of Senate was defeated by Sen. Fadeyi who had never held any post in politics before. This kind of statement against the people’s governor can be traced to some of his failure.
“Sen. Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke is not Ajibola Basiru at all. Therefore, he can never fail. The government of Gov Ademola Adeleke can never be compare to the poor governace of Sen. Ajibola Basiru and his party APC.
“APC permutation in making just defeated Senator Ajibola Basiru who is the present National Secretary APC to motivate the people of Osun State is just a waste of time and effort in futility.
“Osun Leadership Forum implores the good people of Osun State not to be distracted by the APC, the opposition party that had suffered the state for good twelve years.
“The story of half salary in Osun State will not be forgotten. The current issue of subsidy removal that has put many people into abject poverty is another lesson and a testimony that APC should be totally avoided .
“If anybody would talk about good governance not somebody like Sen. Ajibola Basiru who lost his Senatorial constituency in second term to Sen. Fadeyi of PDP. However, we want Sen. Ajibola Basiru to always see the result of Osun Central Senator Election, 2022 as payback to his poor performance.
“Gov. Ademola Adeleke second term is unshakeable.His good works and performance will speak for him. PDP has the larger population currently in the state, election is for majority and not for minority like APC or Sen. Ajibola Basiru.
“However, Osun Leadership Forum admonishes the good people of the state to brush off Sen. Ajibola Basiru’s criticism about the government of Gov. Ademola Adeleke second term. A loser can never speak good of a winner”.
National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ajibola Basiru yesterday took a swipe at those he described as betrayers of the party in the state.
Basiru who addressed his supporters in Yoruba language at Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo, Osun State during a reception held in his honour said that the betrayers of the party during last elections were disappointed over the recent appointment of caretaker committee of local government areas made by Governor Ademola Adeleke.
According to him, “I implore all of us to work assiduously for the party, God will reward everyone. Those that had benefited from the party and still betray us, we have handed over their matter to God. If you know you are tired of the party, leave but don’t stay and still work against it. Those that betrayed us are now disappointed over the appointment of a caretaker committee for local government areas. Don’t be deceived, this party is the main party that is development oriented.
“Less than one year, those that worked against the interests of Osogbo, are reaping the consequences. Those that they put in government, they are treating them like babies and they don’t know what is in government. They are making unnecessary appointments, they are mediocre.”
He lauded the Irepodun/Olorunda/Orolu/Osogbo Federal Constituency who organized the event in his honour for their support as he admonished party members to remain focused ahead of subsequent elections.
Earlier, Ondo State APC chairman who spoke on behalf of the South West APC chairmen, Engr. Ade Adetimeyin said, “all of us are physically present. We are here to celebrate with the National Secretary of our party. Like I said, he is a man that is full of pedigree. He has the capacity to lead this party, he is a man that everybody is proud of.”
Meanwhile, a leader of the APC in Ijeshaland, Chief Adewale Bamigbade, has warned the Osun State government not to distribute the fuel subsidy palliative to only members of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).
“The 3,000 bags of rice received from the Federal Government, there is an ongoing plan and plot to re-bag the same, tag it Imole De Rice. This is fraud. They want to distribute the rice to only members of PDP. This rice is meant for the entire residents of the state. The food palliative is for all Osun citizens not PDP members.”
