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The Adegboyega Oyetola Campaign Council has slammed Senator Ademola Adeleke’s assertion that he had amassed enough real currency to buy Osun and its people for the July 16 governorship election as ludicrous, impossible, and absolutely unacceptable.

The Campaign Council said in a statement signed by its Director-General, Senator Ajibola Bashiru, that Osun was not for sale to the highest bidder, and that the PDP candidate was showing to the Osun electorate on a daily basis that he had nothing to give.

Senator Ademola, the PDP candidate had over the weekend during the party’s Osun Central Campaign rally, said “Osun people, you are the ones to decide. If it is about money, I have enough. I came with plenty money (hitting his pocket with his right hand). And it is not only naira, I came with dollars, pounds and Euro. This time around in Osun, it is fire for fire.”

Reacting to Ademola’s comment, the Oyetola Campaign Council said: “Osun people are not gullible. We have left them in no doubt of the quality our party, the APC and our Administration are made of, including the capacity of our candidate to deliver in the past three and half years. We have proved through our inclusive governance strategy that our people are our strength and that we do not take them for granted and we will never take them for granted. This explains why in spite of the way the 2018 election went, our administration began infrastructure intervention from Ede, the hometown of the PDP candidate.

“Osun people are enlightened, they Know that the State and its citizens are not up for sale to the highest bidder. Therefore, the PDP candidate should keep his money. Or better still, he could deploy those resources to establish industries to provide jobs for the people. This way, he will also be supporting the present Administration’s noticeable efforts in the last three and half years to industrialise the State and change its narrative as a Civil Service State, to one bubbling with economic activities.

“It is on record that the Oyetola-led administration has since inception taken concrete steps to open up the State for investments, and has been able to attract a number of investments into Osun, contributing to the economic growth of the State.

“We assure the PDP candidate that, like the Administration did to other players in the private sector, we will provide a level playing ground for his business to thrive and ensure Osun and its people derive maximum benefit from the investment.

The Campaign Council also cautioned Adeleke against overheating the polity with his incendiary comments and violent tendencies, wondering what he meant by saying ‘it’s fire for fire this time around’.

“As a responsible party, we urge Senator Adeleke and his party to embrace peaceful conduct and decorum in their political engagements and electioneering. We must avoid any comment or action that can jeopardise the peace and stability of our State,” the statement added.

Olasupo said Adelabu’s comments on Fresh FM, an Ibadan radio interview program, on Sunday morning that the construction of the Moniya-Iseyin, Iseyin-Oyo, and Iseyin-Ogbomoso roads was a waste of State resources and unnecessary reeked of a lack of basic economic knowledge and a poor view of human capital development.

Adelabu, who appeared on a Sunday radio interview show, accused the Makinde-led administration of wasting resources on the construction of the 76-kilometer Moniya- Iseyin road, claiming that less than half of the budget was spent on it because less than fifty vehicles ply the road daily. The former legislature opined that Chief Adelabu made the statement out of hatred for the people of Iseyin and Oke-Ogun in general, adding that the submission of the former banker showed his myopic worldview about leadership.

He further hinted that from his personal assessments, over hundred trucks, carrying yam, maize and other farm products traversed the Iseyin-Moniya road in less that one hour while others bring household goods, fabrics and other items back to the region from the cities.

“I listened to an interview granted by Oloye Bayo Adelabu on Fresh FM Ibadan and I was like waooo! This is a man that is seeking to rule Oyo State, words coming out of his mouth were unbelievable, this man is suppose to be a First Class graduate of Economics!

“Well let me be specific, especially on the issues he raised that concern me and my root, Iseyin, he made reference to Iseyin-Moniya road being constructed by Governor Seyi Makinde as being a waste of resources and death trap and that you can count no more than fifty vehicles plying the road, haaaaa!!! That is a blatant lie!

Honorable Abiodun Olasupo, the former member of the Federal House of Representatives representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa, has revealed that the All Progressive Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate, Chief Bayo Adelabu, despite being a first class graduate of Economics, lacked basic economic knowledge.

“This is obviously a gateway road to the Oke-Ogun region and the majority of foods being consumed in the urban centers of the State and the Southwest States come from this axis, I have on several occasions, as a community leader, stood by the road to count the number of trucks daily taking yam and other food items from Iseyin and the rest of Oke-Ogun to Ibadan and our neighboring States, you can count hundreds within an hour everyday, how could he say that does not have economic value?

“He said Oyo-Iseyin road is a waste, this is a road that has historical and economic value as well, it has historical forbearance on the people of Iseyin and Oke-Ogun, he even said Iseyin-Ogbomoso road also does not have a value, how could somebody striving to lead a State under which the people of Iseyin and Oke-Ogun are crucial part, say that?

“If for a singular reason, LAUTECH’s of Agricultural Science and Natural Resources that has been moved to Iseyin is enough, the fact that there is a road that connects the whole Oke-Ogun and Iseyin to Ogbomoso now, makes it easy for lecturers, researchers, students, motorists and other people to travel to and from Ogbomoso from Iseyin under thirty to thirty-five minutes, lecturers will do their lectures and go back to Ogbomoso if they wish, this means there is transfer of knowledge in a conducive economic-driven environment.

“How would somebody that seeks to rule Oyo State in this time and age now say these roads do not have positive economic impacts, three things I understand or take from his rants are that it could be probably out of hatred for the people of Iseyin, secondly and without mincing words, Oloye Bayo Adelabu lacks basic knowledge of Economics and thirdly, his world view about economic development, social and human capital development is very myopic,” Olasupo submitted.

Students in Oyo State have embarked on protest to demand for an end to the long-running ASUU strike.

Students are calling on the Federal Government and academics to reach an agreement and terminate the strike.

Students at LAUTECH University in Ogbomosho barricaded the main road in front of the school, asking on the state governor, Seyi Makinde, to opt out of ASUU, as several other state universities have done, so that academic activity could continue.

The SUG President stated that LAUTECH has already been through numerous industrial crises and should not be subjected to further suffering.

In Ibadan, the southwest arm of Nigeria, a similar protest is taking place in Ibadan by the arm of National Association of Nigerian Students NANS, Southwest Chapter. The students who displayed series of placards with various inscriptions too to the streets and barricade major access to suburb of Ibadan.

Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, a former Director General of the Bola Tinubu Campaign Organization, has explained why the ex-governor of Lagos State abandoned his presidential campaign on the APC platform (APC).

Jibrin stated in a statement yesterday that after defecting from the APC to the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), led by former Kano governor and NNPP presidential hopeful, Rabiu Kwankwaso, he had no alternative but to withdraw from Tinubu’s presidential campaign.

But the former member of the House of Representatives insisted that his beef was with Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, not Tinubu.

The ex-lawmaker said in a statement titled ‘Why I Left the APC – Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin’ that his political life had been terrible for the past seven years due to the overbearing nature of the party’s leaders in his home state in Kano. He said, “in my twenty-three years of postgraduate experience, the last seven years were my most unremarkable, so much that my long-established career almost reached a point of utter implosion.

“The horrifying disappointments of my past seven years revolved around this character who’s determined to destroy anybody that activates his glaring inferiority complex. His sadistic instincts make him quite a frightening ally, so much that he feels the need to treat his allies as the marginalized black Africans in apartheid-era South Africans to feel a sense of superiority and misguided advantage. I dedicated everything to the political interests of this man, but he kept asking for more. This circus became too embarrassing that I had to take a step back for soul-searching to redeem myself. There’s a difference between service for the common good and a quest to be worshipped by one’s allies. We must never confuse loyalty with slavery.”

“This man yearned for that and put me through a mentally draining phase in my life that I had to step aside to reflect on my political choices. It’s unsurprising that all his political principals and lieutenants are deserting him, and he risks becoming an island at the end of his stewardship.

Honourable Joshua Oyebamiji, Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Oyo State, has intimated that Engineer Rauf Olaniyan, the Deputy Governor of Oyo State, may shortly decamp to the APC.

Former Chairman of the Oyo House of Assembly Committee on Information and Security Matters, Aanuoluwapo Omorinde, responded to questions from Aanuoluwapo Omorinde on BOTTOM LINE- a political program on IBR 92.5fm Ibadan today, saying Governor Makinde is now left with a crowd without political relevance, adding that the real people are no longer with him.

“How can someone say he doesn’t have a political father?” Is it possible to achieve anything without a mentor? He has lost the popular support that propelled him to power. He’s losing heavyweights on a daily basis, which indicates something.”

“People are leaving the PDP and they are coming into the APC on daily basis. His Deputy is coming to join us very soon, I can confirm that to you, you will see it.

But reacting, the State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Elder Dayo Ogungbenro said as the Chairman of the party in the State, he is not aware the Deputy Governor intends to leave the party. His words, “I am not aware the Deputy Governor who is one of our leaders wants to leave the party. If it is true, we can only wish him well”

He denied the insinuation that the Governor has hijacked the party structure stressing that the Governor has never given him or his Executive Council any problem in the daily running of the party. “I laugh when people say these things. Some people who are not informed talk of imposition. They don’t know what they are saying. We are the ruling party and we want to win elections that is why we adopted consensus. I give you an instance, in Ogbomoso North local government area, there are about 17 Aspirants. Primary is like a war, do you now expect us to allow all of them to go into primary? That was why we adopted consensus and the governor never imposed anyone on the Elders or anybody”.

He also announced that the Governor has instructed that Oloye Jumoke Akinjide be adopted as the statutory delegate from Ona-Ara local government at the National Convention.