Due to an alleged incidence of total votes cast exceeding the number of accredited delegates, the Oyo APC primary appeal panel has completed preparations to reschedule the election of the Oyo South primary for Tuesday, May 31, 2022.
The overall number of accredited delegates was 477, while the total number of votes cast was 575.
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Despite the fact that 18 delegates were purportedly missing, it is still unclear how 80 extra votes made it to the polling station.
The primary poll, which was originally scheduled on Saturday, was postponed until Sunday due to technical difficulties.
Heavy security was provided on Sunday, prior to the start of the accreditation, and only accredited delegates and aspirants were permitted in.
Despite this, there were still problems in the way the election was conducted, as Adegboyega Adegoke got 53 votes, Bimbo Adekanmbi 98 votes, Sarafadeen Alli who had earlier withdrawn from the primary got 107 votes, Dr Kola Balogun 93 votes, Idris Kola-Daisi 212 votes, Waheed Olajide 2 votes, Rotimi Francis Adeniyi 4 votes while 6 votes were void.
At the end, the presiding officers on Sunday night could not announce the winner of the primaries due to the 20.5 percent over voting.
Recall that Kolapo Kola-Daisi had earlier been announced as the winner of the primary which held on Sunday at the Le Chatteau Event Centre, Bodija, Ibadan.
The Seven (7) aspirants who participated in the contest include — Adegboyega Adegoke, Bimbo Adekanmbi, Sarafadeen Alli, Kola Balogun, Idris Kola-Daisi, Waheed Olajide and Rotimi Francis Adeniyi.
Meanwhile, Adesoji Akanbi and Ayodeji Karim withdrew shortly before the contest commenced.
The Lagos Command of the EFCC on May 30, 2022, secured the conviction of one Adeyemi Emmanuel before Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos for offence bordering on retention of proceeds of crime to the tune of $150.
He was accused of engaging in illegal online activities to defraud his victims in an investment scam.
The charge reads: “Adeyemi Oluwashina Emmanuel, sometime between the period of March 2020 and October 2021, within the Ikeja Judicial Division of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, retained the aggregate sum of $150 obtained from unsuspecting members of the public.”
He pleaded “not guilty” to the charge when it was read to him.
The member representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Iwajowa/Kajola Federal Constituency, Hon. Shina Peller has opened up on what transpired on the Senatorial primaries held in Oyo North.
This was contained in a statement made available to ODUDUWA NEWS as read in part:
“There have been calls from loved ones, supporters, close associates and family about the controversy surrounding the All Progressives Congress (APC) Oyo North Senatorial Primaries which was scheduled to hold on Saturday 28th May 2022 at the Iseyin District Grammar School (IDGS), Iseyin as well as assassination attempt on my life.
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“This statement will therefore state the true picture of what actually transpired. The APC primaries ought to have been held on Saturday peacefully and transparently, but couldn’t hold due to selfish interest of some bad elements within the party who are determined to impose a candidate on all.
“To set the record straight, there are five aspirants contesting for the APC Oyo North Senatorial ticket in the forthcoming 2023 general election, and they are my humble self, Honourable Shina Peller, the incumbent occupier of the seat, Senator Fatai Buhari, who is determined to return to the Senate for the third term by whatever means, Honourable Saheed Alaran, Chief Ogunbode and Mrs. Adeola Adeboyin.
“At IDGS, the supposed venue for the primaries, the delegates and all aspirants including myself had arrived since 10am, except Senator Fatai Buhari who was nowhere to be found, as well as the party officials who were supposed to conduct the primaries.
“We were all there waiting for several hours with no sight of Senator Buhari and party officials until when we got an information that secret accreditation of delegates was ongoing at Sharapy Hotel, Odo-Omu area, Iseyin-Oyo Road, Iseyin. We moved to the hotel and we saw that truly a lot of buses were parked around with so many people engaging in illegal accreditation. When they saw us, they started running away.
“Whilst we were at the hotel, we got another information that they had moved to the residence of the former Iseyin Local Government Chairman, Engineer Abolade and that some aggrieved people were already on their way to his house to disrupt their illegal process. To avoid any violence, myself, other three aspirants had to move to the place so that we could control the situation. When we got there, we discovered that truly kangaroo primaries was already ongoing with some unaccredited delegates with result sheets and membership registration slips that have no passports.
“This kangaroo primaries was being conducted with close supervision of the former Oyo State Commissioner for Works and Transport, Alhaji Wasiu Dauda Azuzu and Senator Fatai Buhari. When they realized that there was no way they could continue with their secret voting, we were invited to a meeting at premier hotel to resolve the issue. We were surprised to be informed that they decided to postpone the primaries until the following day and unconstitutionally moved the venue from Iseyin to Saki to enable them manipulate the process and impose Senator Buhari on us all.
“This was the true picture of what transpired on Saturday, and as God would have it, gentlemen of the press were on ground at the IDGS; they witnessed and reported everything. Arise TV, AIT, Punch, Nation, Thisday, Tribune, Sun, Independent newspapers, Radio Nigeria, Oke Ogun FM and other notable media outlets were on ground and as evident in their reports, they spoke to all other four aspirants right there at the venue except Senator Fatai Buhari who was somewhere else with other bad elements in the party trying to manipulate the primaries. Also, the police, Civil Defense Corps, INEC officers and observers were on ground and they can easily be contacted to verify our claim. Any other writeup or report contradicting this should be regarded as lies and you can as well query the source of such reports.
“So having failed in their attempt to manipulate the primaries on Saturday, they unconstitutionally moved it to Saki on Sunday, and they were able to succeed in carrying out their kangaroo primaries with fake delegates’ list under the protection of hoodlums who had been massively mobilized to the venue.
Regarding the report on the assassination attempt on my life, this was true. I was at Premier Hotel in Ibadan for the meeting with other APC Oyo North Senatorial aspirants who were not satisfied with what happened in Iseyin on Saturday. After the meeting, I left Premier Hotel for Oke Ogun in my convoy.
However, a few minutes after we had left, I got an intel that six vehicles (Four cars, and two buses) loaded with thugs and ammunitions were on my trail to take my life. They gave the description of the vehicles, and I passed the information to my security details.
Whilst still on our way, we got another information that the vehicles were parked about one kilometer away from my house in Iseyin. When we got to the spot, we actually noticed that the vehicles in question matched the same description we had been given earlier and had campaign stickers and face caps of Senator Teslim Folarin. My security details then decided to disarm and arrest them.
My life is seriously being threatened just because I am trying to protect the interest of my dear people from the Oke Ogun region. I am using this opportunity to call on President Muhammadu Buhari, relevant stakeholders and security agencies to call Senator Teslim Folarin and his evil machinery to order, as people will hold him accountable if anything happened to me, my family or my aides”.
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has extended the registration time for school-based applicants for the 2022 Examination (SSCE).
Azeez Sani, NECO’s Head of Information and Public Relations Division, made the announcement on Monday.
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The council, he claims, has agreed to extend the registration deadline for this year’s examination by three weeks.
The registration period, which was set to finish on May 30, has now been extended until June 20 at midnight.
There will be no more extensions, NECO notified the Ministries of Education, principals, commandants, and other stakeholders in various states and the Federal Capital.
It was stated that the NECO SSCE in 2022 would begin on June 27 and end on August 12.
Afolake Abiola, a 47-year-old accountant, has committed suicide by drinking a pesticide.
On Friday, May 27, 2022, in her 1 Abayomi Kukomi Close apartment in Osapa London, Lekki, Lagos, the tragedy occurred.
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According to reports, Afolake, who is single and childless, had been depressed for some time before committing suicide.
“She has been battling sadness for a while due to the lack of a spouse and child,” a family source said, requesting anonymity.
The event occurred on May 27, 2022, according to the spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin.
“When the cops arrived, her family members were there, and they officially requested that the body be released to them,” he added. Based on compassionate grounds her corpse was released to her family for burial.”
She will be buried her according to Islamic rites.
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo state has called on security Operatives especially the Nigerian Police, Oyo state command, to as a matter of urgency investigate Senator representing Oyo Central senatorial district, Teslim Kolawole Folarin, over the alleged assassination attempt on Honourable Shina Peller life noting that such allegation readily confirms its fears about Folarin’s desperation.
It would be recalled that the ruling PDP in Oyo state had earlier cautioned Senator Folarin over what was described as brazen and public flaunt of a double edged sword at a public event in the state earlier in the month.
The ruling party said such disregard for law and decorum by the senator was the height of political rascality born out of Folarin’s unrestrained desperation to be governor of the state by all means including his alleged attempt on his co-partyman, Hon. Peller’s life as well as unleashing terror on anyone on his way.
Oyo state PDP in a press release on Monday May 30, made available to journalists by its State Publicity Secretary, Akeem Olatunji, noted that Senator Folarin’s alleged involvement in the gruesome death of former leader of the proscribed transport union, NURTW, in Oyo state, ‘Eleweomo’ still remains fresh in the minds of many residents especially members of the proscribed union.
The party wondered what business of Governor Seyi Makinde it is as to what happens in the opposition party. It described Folarin as a political neophyte whose disposition to public Office is always “me against them” saying Makinde as the Executive Governor of Oyo state has continued to receive and host top politicians in the opposition party both in the state and entire country stressing that the world has move far past Folarin’s kind of “gutter” politics which could pass for “abula politics”.
While cautioning Folarin to keep Governor Makinde’s name out of his mouth in his political misery the party said Folarin’s penchants for the number one seat was born out of self delusion by thinking he has any political pedigree or character required for such exalted office stressing that late baba Adedibu of blessed memory and the PDP in their bid to groom younger breeds into positions of leadership made him whatever he is today.
The statement added that despite the PDP’s efforts on Folarin’s political career, the lawmaker has yet to learn the rudiments of decorous politics as obtainable and practicable in a twenty first century society across the globe apart from the senator’s usual show of political hooliganism and his ‘jaagba’ politics using thugs and hired political machineries on perceived opponents such as Hon. Peller.
“Senator Folarin has through his conducts and attitude toward politics continued to bring shame and reputational reproach to our political space in Oyo state in the eyes of others from other parts of Nigeria because he has continued to wallow in self delusion and unrestrained desperation for the number one office in Oyo state.
“We know Folarin’s political history and antecedents including his capabilities in terms of relationship with political thugs which was evident in the Eleweomo’s saga. The news of how ‘Eleweomo’ was gruesomely murdered and his alleged link with the incident still remain fresh in our minds till date. We fully understand his disposition and core beliefs as the king of ‘jagba’ politics wherever he goes but we assure him, there will be no place for him to hide this time should he be found culpable in the assassination attempt on Hon. Peller’s life as alleged because this is purely a security matter.
“We’re also not unmindful of Folarin’s unbridled penchants for tying his political woes to Governor Seyi Makinde’s hard earned reputation because it is his best way of getting himself into the news. A politician and a serving senator of the federal republic who has been privileged to be beneficiary of political struggles and sacrifices through sweat and blood of others but still refuses to learn the rudiments of playing decorous politics as obtainable and practicable in other saner clime can clearly pass for a misfit and a total failure.
“Instead of providing the people his three years stewardship so far in the Senate, Folarin continued in his usual manner of political hooliganism of unleashing terror on others perceived to be his opponents especially in his APC. Thank God those boys the whole world know are his political thugs have been apprehended by the gallant security agents, we dare Folarin to deny having connection with them as we await outcome of further investigations by the police.” The PDP stated.
Kunle Adeyanju, the Nigerian man who has been biking from London to Lagos has finally arrived in Nigeria.
Kunle arrived Nigeria on Sunday May 29. He was cheered by a crowd which gathered in anticipation of his arrival.
In the last few weeks, Kunle has taken a journey on his motorbike, nicknamed The Eagle, to create awareness and raise funds to end Polio. He rode from London to Lagos and chronicled his journey on Twitter.
Kolapo Kola-Daisi has won the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Oyo South Senatorial District.
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Kola-Daisi polled 212 votes to defeat the incumbent, Kola Balogun, who scored 93 votes; former Oyo State Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Sharafadeen Alli (107 votes); Adegboyega Adegoke (53 votes); Bimbo Adekanmbi (98 votes), Rotimi Adeniyi (four votes) and Waheed Olajide (two votes).
Six votes were voided in the primaries.
Recall that the Incumbent Oyo South Senator Kola Balogun, the younger brother of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Lekan Balogun, defeated the late Governor Abiola Ajimobi to win the seat in 2019.
Kola-Daisi is a son-in-law to the late Governor Ajimobi.
Balogun won the seat on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) but recently defected to the APC after he was denied a second term ticket by Governor Seyi Makinde.
The primary, which could not hold on Friday as earlier planned, was rescheduled for Saturday and later Sunday due to inability of the aspirants and party leadership to resolve the discrepancies that arose on delegates’ lists.
The election held yesterday at the Le Chatteau Event Centre at Bodija in Ibadan, the state capital, amid heavy security.
In a related development, the senator representing Oyo North, Fatai Buhari, also won the party’s primary for a third term with 570 votes.
Buhari’s runner-up, Saheed Alaran, polled six votes, while the member representing Iseyin, Kajola, Itesiwaju and Iwajowa Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Shina Peller, had five votes.
The Oyo North senatorial primary which was supposed to hold on Saturday in Iseyin but couldn’t hold took place at OYSADA Sports Complex in Saki, Saki West Local Government Area.
However, member representing Iseyin, Itesiwaju, Kajola and Iwajowa Federal Constituency, Hon Shina Peller has rejected the outcome of the congress.
Peller who wasn’t present at the venue of the election alleged that the delegate list has been tampered with.
Similarly, a former Commissioner of Works And Transport in the administration of former Governor Abiola Ajimobi, Dr Yunus Akintunde, has won the All Progressives Congress (APC) tickets for Oyo Central Senatorial District.
Akintunde polled 238 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Engr. Faozey Oladotun Nurudeen, who scored 176 votes in the keenly contested election.
Wakil Oyedemi had 43 votes to place third, Bimbo Kolade recorded 30 votes while Kazeem Kolawole Raji polled five votes. Kolapo Kola-Daisi has been elected to represent Oyo South Senatorial District on the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket.
Kola-Daisi received 212 votes to defeat incumbent Kola Balogun, who received 93 votes; former Oyo State Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Sharafadeen Alli (107 votes); Adegboyega Adegoke (53 votes); Bimbo Adekanmbi (98 votes), Rotimi Adeniyi (four votes); and Waheed Olajide, who received four votes (two votes).
In the primaries, six votes were thrown out.
In 2019, the incumbent Oyo South Senator Kola Balogun defeated the late Governor Abiola Ajimobi to win the seat. Kola Balogun is the younger brother of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Lekan Balogun.
Kola-Daisi is the late Governor Ajimobi’s son-in-law.
Balogun was elected on the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) ticket, but recently deserted.
Kolapo Kola-Daisi has won the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Oyo South Senatorial District.
Kola-Daisi polled 212 votes to defeat the incumbent, Kola Balogun, who scored 93 votes; former Oyo State Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Sharafadeen Alli (107 votes); Adegboyega Adegoke (53 votes); Bimbo Adekanmbi (98 votes), Rotimi Adeniyi (four votes) and Waheed Olajide (two votes).
Six votes were voided in the primaries.
Recall that the Incumbent Oyo South Senator Kola Balogun, the younger brother of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Lekan Balogun, defeated the late Governor Abiola Ajimobi to win the seat in 2019.
Kola-Daisi is a son-in-law to the late Governor Ajimobi.
Balogun won the seat on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) but recently defected to the APC after he was denied a second term ticket by Governor Seyi Makinde.
The primary, which could not hold on Friday as earlier planned, was rescheduled for Saturday and later Sunday due to inability of the aspirants and party leadership to resolve the discrepancies that arose on delegates’ lists.
The election held yesterday at the Le Chatteau Event Centre at Bodija in Ibadan, the state capital, amid heavy security.
In a related development, the senator representing Oyo North, Fatai Buhari, also won the party’s primary for a third term with 570 votes.
Buhari’s runner-up, Saheed Alaran, polled six votes, while the member representing Iseyin, Kajola, Itesiwaju and Iwajowa Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Shina Peller, had five votes.
The Oyo North senatorial primary which was supposed to hold on Saturday in Iseyin but couldn’t hold took place at OYSADA Sports Complex in Saki, Saki West Local Government Area.
However, member representing Iseyin, Itesiwaju, Kajola and Iwajowa Federal Constituency, Hon Shina Peller has rejected the outcome of the congress.
Peller who wasn’t present at the venue of the election alleged that the delegate list has been tampered with.
Similarly, a former Commissioner of Works And Transport in the administration of former Governor Abiola Ajimobi, Dr Yunus Akintunde, has won the All Progressives Congress (APC) tickets for Oyo Central Senatorial District.
Akintunde polled 238 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Engr. Faozey Oladotun Nurudeen, who scored 176 votes in the keenly contested election.
Wanted drug kingpin behind the 2000.6kg Cannabis Sativa seized in a concrete mixer truck in Adamawa State on 2nd December 2021, Henry Chukwuneku Okamaru (a.k.a. hiLawrence Ik Okamaru) has been arrested in Ondo state after five months of manhunt by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
Two suspects: Matthew Donuwe and Friday Nmborgwu were arrested in connection to the consignment last December. They had confessed that the concrete mixer truck with Lagos registration number SMK 890 XB was loaded with the illicit drug in Ogbese, Ondo state while they travelled for two months on the road before arriving Adamawa where they were eventually arrested by NDLEA operatives.
Investigations reveal that Okamaru is one of the leaders of a cannabis cultivation cartel that operates in the Ondo-Ekiti axis, while he shuttles between Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo and Delta State from where he coordinates supplies of illicit consignments to Northern parts of the country and Lagos State. The drug lord has also been identified as a member of an international drug trafficking ring, while he shuttles between Nigeria and South Africa where he settles his family.
Meanwhile, a 36-year-old Nigerian based in Italy, Nwakanma Michael Uche has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA Abuja for ingesting pellets of heroin.
Nwakanma who hails from, Arodizuogu Village, Ideato Local Government Area of Imo State was nabbed while trying to board Air France Airline enroute Abuja-Paris-Milan, Italy on Sunday 15th May 2022. He was thereafter kept under observation during which he excreted 95 pellets of the illicit drug.
He claimed he came to see his parents in Nigeria after 12 years in Italy and to complete his fathers traditional marriage rites. He added that he was to be paid N1.5million after a successful delivery of the drugs in Milan.
The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed a panic-laced message making the rounds on social media purporting that motorcycle riders in the state have concluded plans to disrupt social and commercial activities in Lagos State from June 1, 2022 in protest of the ban on the use of motorcycles within six LGAs in Lagos State.
A statement released by SP Benjamin Hundeyin, spokesperson of the state police command, says the Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, assures all Lagosians that all necessary human, material and operational resources have been deployed across the state to forestall any breakdown of law and order.
”A carefully drafted security architecture, resulting from a detailed crime-mapping of the state has been emplaced across the length and breadth of the state. In addition, all Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and tactical commanders have been placed on red alert towards any eventuality.
CP Alabi, therefore, enjoins all residents of Lagos State to go about their lawful businesses without fear of harassment or intimidation before, during and after the touted date for the purported civil disturbance, as officers and men of the Command are fully on top of the situation. ”the statement in part reads
The Lagos state government on May 18th placed a total ban on the operations of commercial motorcyclists aka Okada riders in six local government areas in the state.
The affected local government areas include Ikeja, Surulere, Eti-Osa, Lagos Mainland, Apapa, and Lagos Island.
