In today’s Politics, our women across the Nation have been sidelined and deprived of serving their country due to the influence of Gender Propaganda, Gender Intimidation, Frustration and Oppression in political period.
Let’s give kudos to our Feminist friendly Governor for having in mind women inclusiveness in Government especially in his administration, given room for them to serve in different capacities.
Your Excellecy Sir, I want to implore you, Sir to please effect your promise on TWO REP Slots you promised Female demographic.
Having said that, the thirteen aspirants in Ibadan North have only two females aspiring i.e Hon Toyin Balogun former part time member of the Library Board who has been supporting party faithful since 2018 and Hon Bolanle Sarumi former Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Diaspora matters who has also proven her mettle since she joined this govt in 2019.
They are both highly versatile, extremely intelligent, trusted and tested nationally, both globally exposed, both staunch GSM Advocates who can represent the good people of Ibadan North Federal Constituency creditably.
Meanwhile, out of the Eight aspirants from Akinyele/Lagelu Federal Constituency, only one gallant female is among them whose nickname has been ringing the bells of all and sundry, Hon. Ramota Agberemi Dabo (RAD).
As I conclude, for the interest of our party not gender biased, always gender concerned, gender inclusive and gender friendly under the distinguished leader of the Party and The Executive Governor of Oyo State, Gov. Seyi MAKINDE, that if we are to have our fourteen Federal representatives at the green chamber from Oyo State, the leadership should please consider our women especially in these two major strong Federal Constituencies to produce two female candidates in Ibadan North and Akinyele/ Lagelu Federal Constituencies in the coming Primaries.
May I use this avenue to charge all eligible voters, delegates at the primaries to watch out for their conscience as they elect their possible destiny fulfillment on behalf of the people in that representations.
Yours GSMist,
✍🏽 Signed:
EGALITARIAN, DIG. COM. MOYOSOREOLUWA OLAMILEKAN ELDREEZ (MOE) IBADAN NORTH EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT FOUNDER/CEO FOT/MOECAMPORG/MICE GCON GCOAF CONVENER OSM IRE DEEEEEEEE IRE WOLUUUU NI IPINLE OYO
The Dapo Abiodun Campaign Organization DACO has claimed that erstwhile Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun is behind the smear campaign being sponsored against the incumbent governor, Dapo Abiodun.
In a statement made available to newsmen by the Campaign Organization as read in part:
“The attention of the Dapo Abiodun Campaign Organisation (DACO) has been drawn to a terse and watery press statement issued by the “SIA Media Office”, making a feeble denial that “Sen Amosun is not involved directly or indirectly, in any campaign against Governor Abiodun or any person for that matter.”
“There is no doubt that the said statement of denial was an unsuccessful attempt to mislead and divert the attention of the discerning public away from the political machinations and shenanigans of the “SIA Media Office”. Senator Ibikunle Amosun, by the denial, is simply hiding behind a finger.
“In a publication obtained by ODUDUWA NEWS, on April 19, 2022 and other platforms, the loser in the 2019 gubernatorial polls in Ogun State, Hon. Abiodun Akinlade, not only owned-up to the fictitious, baseless, misleading and hate-filled petition written against Governor Dapo Abiodun to the headquarters of the All Progressives Congress (APC), by one unknown petitioner claiming to be a “leader” in our party, Hon. Akinlade actually named Senator Amosun as the sponsor/director of the petition.
“Akinlade stated and we quote: “I need to come and tell my people that if what we are looking at (petition) goes through and there is opportunity, I will come out to mobilise my people and I will run. But if the petition is jettisoned by the party and the party decides otherwise, we will stand with the party. That is the directive of our leader, Senator Ibikunle Amosun.”
“Since then, the statements and outputs from the “SIA Media Office” are nothing but storylines packed with political chicanery. Not unexpectedly, and true to well known character, as we saw in the buildup to the 2019 general elections, Senator Amosun and his people became more desperate when notable members in their now fractured camp started deserting in droves; saying they were tired of persistent deceit and failed promises. This set of serial petitioners became very desperate and peeved after Senator Lekan Mustapha, Amosun’s former Commissioner for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye, and several others from Amosun’s camp visited Governor Abiodun few weeks ago in Abeokuta to pledge their loyalty to Mr. Governor and his second term aspiration.
A man should be able to stand by his actions. In the words of Maya Angelou: “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
The “SIA Media Office” should tell the story of its cowardly denial to the marines.
The Ibadan North Local Government Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday 11th May 2022 played host to thousands of party faithfuls, leaders, stakeholders and general constituents of Ibadan North Federal Constituency who witnessed the declaration of the current serving Honorable, Prince Olaide Akinremi popularly known as Jagaban who had come to intimate the good people of Ibadan North of his intention to run for a second term of office.
Hon. Prince Olaide Akinremi who was elected as the House of Representatives member for Ibadan North Federal Constituency under the APC in 2019 was heartily welcomed amidst singing and fanfare by teeming numbers of his constituents at the Oke Apon venue of the weekly APC Local Government meeting in Oje-igosun area of Ibadan North, and characteristically, he also joined the people in singing and dancing, even as encomia, good wishes and prayers rented the air.
The well performing Honorable in his address expressed profound gratitude to the entire rank and file of All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders and members in Ibadan North Federal Constituency, for their consistent support and goodwill that he has enjoyed since 2019. He also acknowledged greatly, the uncountable numbers of Ibadan North constituents who continue to show enormous affection and appreciation towards him.
While giving account of his stewardship, Hon. Prince Olaide Akinremi (Jagaban) highlighted human capacity development as a special category in which he has been able to make far reaching impacts, with over 350 jobs for graduate & less graduate youths, vocational & entrepreneurial trainings for over 800 women and youths, and various forms of empowerment (over 1000) for skilled & unskilled members of his constituency.
He went further to itemize infrastructural projects which includes multiple blocks of fully equipped classrooms in no less than 10 schools, modern bore hole for a number of communities, road rehabilitation works, erosion control works and street lights in multiple hundreds so far. He also enumerated construction of health and maternity centres, skill acquisition centre, community town hall, cassava processing plant, glaucoma centre among other landmark infrastructures for the benefit of the good people of Ibadan North.
More so, he highlighted grants and scholarship to indigent students, health programmes where free treatment and provision of free medical aids were available, and payment of hospital bills of stranded constituents among others as part of his social impact in the lives of numerous people in Ibadan North Federal Constituency.
Hon. Prince Olaide Akinremi assured members of his constituency of even more democratic dividends, as so much is still in store for this calendar year, and many more communities and individuals are earmarked to benefit from different projects and empowerments. He thereby solicited for everyone’s support to once again represent Ibadan North Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives.
In what could be described as an act of one good turn deserves another, apex leaders of the All Progressives Congress in Ibadan North Federal Constituency unanimously agreed to support Hon. Prince Olaide Akinremi (Jagaban) for a second term, and presented him with an automatic ticket for his second term bid to that effect, to the admiration and applause of thousands of party faithfuls present.
Excitingly, this epoch declaration event also witnessed the official acceptance of defectors from other political parties into the Ibadan North All Progressives Congress (APC) fold by the State Chairman of the Oyo APC Hon. Isaac Ajiboye Omodewu, and alongside Hon. Prince Olaide Akinremi (Jagaban) and the apex leaders of the party, these new set of stakeholders, stalwarts and members who have now added to the intimidating numbers of APC members in Ibadan North Local Government were gracefully received.
Hon. Isaac Omodewu in his address lauded Hon. Prince Olaide Akinremi for been a pride to Oyo APC, for all his giant strides and enviable representation, and he called on party faithfuls present to support people like Hon. Jagaban who continues to shine lights of hope into the lives of his constituents.
Among the political heavyweights received into the Ibadan North chapter of the APC are Hon. Demola Omotosho, Alhaji Wasiu Emiola, Alhaji Omilabu Ghandi, Hon. Leke Olawuyi, Mrs Adebola Babalola etc. Hon. Prince Olaide Akinremi stated that he is elated to welcome them all, and encouraged party members to integrate with them as the party focuses on winning all elective positions in Oyo State in the 2023 general elections.
Engr. Rauf Olaniyan, the deputy governor of Oyo state has said that he was not involved in selecting candidates for the Peoples Democratic Party PDP for the forthcoming elections in the state. He made this disclosure on May 11, 2022 while responding to questions from journalists in Ibadan, Oyo state.
According to Olaniyan, no fewer than four political parties are wooing him with their governorship tickets adding that his defection to another political party became the talk of the town because he had stayed aloof. ODUDUWA NEWS reports.
He said: “You are not suppose to guess because on Sallah day I told the people the truth from my heart. I am a Muslim, let Almighty Allah determine your movement. So, if Allah says, wait in PDP, I’ll wait, if He says I should go to APC, I will go, and if He says I shouldn’t go to either APC or PDP but go elsewhere, that’s what I will do. If He says I should go away from politics, I will go away. I am not looking for what to eat or drink, let’s just wait for Almighty God to speak and we will know what to do.
Waterfield Luxury Hotel, Akobo, Ibadan.
“Why the speculation is always coming up is because I have decided to stay aloof, all through the nominations and so. I haven’t bought any nomination form and I didn’t participate in the PDP shenanigans. I called it shenanigans because we know all the anomalies that have been going on.
“You can claim some people are not important, but let’s wait and see. Like I have been telling people, I am still a bonafide member of the PDP as at now, but 24 hours is a long time in politics. Anything can happen anytime.”
When asked on the rumour of being courted by some parties in the state, the deputy governor said: “About five parties are wooing me with their ticket. Four of them are wooing me with their governorship ticket.
“I have paid my dues in so many parties. I was part of the founding members of ADC in Oyo State. The parties all offered me tickets but I have told them to allow God to speak. To be the governor is not my headache.
“I may not have money but I have two things. I have my Omoluabi ethos and I have people who cherish Omoluabi. In Yoruba land, if you say money and integrity, we place premium more on integrity more than money.
“I did not confirm to you that I have joined another party or left the PDP because I haven’t actually.”
On why he did not participate in the politicking and endorsement of PDP candidates in the state, Olaniyan said: “Because when they are doing things, they sideline me. Should I pretend that they called me? No.”
While reacting to the meeting the governor had with members of the House of Assembly on May 10, 2022, Olaniyan stated that the governor has the right to meet with the lawmakers on any issue at anytime.
“The governor of the state has the right to meet with state lawmakers for the state to move forward. There are more burning issues that they have to be discussing. What is wrong with the governor meeting the members of the state House of Assembly? People are just speculating what is not, please don’t join them to make any issue out of nothing. I also know that the governor has a right to meet the House of Assembly members,”
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) would commence a 2-week industrial action with effect from Monday 16th of May 2022 .
The Academic Staff of the polytechnics disclosed the decision in a statement released after its emergency meeting of the Union’s National Executive Council on Wednesday.
The union in a statement signed by ASUP president, Anderson Ezeibe said the federal government is yet to meet the union’s demand.
ASUP suspended its industrial action declared on the 6th of April 2021 on the 10th of June, 2021 following the signing of a Memorandum of Action (MoA) with the government.
The signed MoA contained a clear path to a sustainable resolution of the issues in dispute with timelines attached to each of the items in dispute.
Part of the demand includes the non-release of the approved revitalization fund for the sector, Approved N15bn, yet to be released 11 months after approval by the President.
“Non-release of arrears of the new minimum wage: The owed 10 months arrears for the Polytechnics is yet to be released. The composite amount covering all Federal Tertiary Institutions to the approximate figure of N19Bn currently exists as an AIE in the Accountant Generals Office.”
“We are deploying this medium to equally appeal to members of the public to prevail on the government to do the needful within the two weeks period so as to avoid an indefinite shutdown of the sector.” the union threatened.”
The former Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has denied sponsoring propaganda against the incumbent governor of the State, Prince Dapo Abiodun.
This was contained in a statement made available to the newsmen by Amosun’s media aide, Ajibola Bola Adeyemi as read in part:
“The attention of Senator Ibikunle Amosun has been drawn to a publication alleging that he was planning a smear campaign against the Governor of Ogun State, Mr Dapo Abiodun.
“Ordinarily, we do not respond to such wild accusations. However, this is one callous accusation that should not be allowed to pass unaddressed.
“For the record, Sen Amosun is not involved, directly or indirectly, in any campaign against Governor Abiodun or any person for that matter.
“Sen Amosun implores Governor Abiodun to employ every legal means to bring whoever is involved in any such campaign against him, as alleged, to book”.
The Chief Press Secretary to Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, on Tuesday, flayed Senator Teslim Folarin, a governorship aspirant on the platform of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, for claiming that none of the opposition party’s gubernatorial aspirants is as worse as Makinde.
Waterfield Luxury Hotel, Akobo, Ibadan.
Adisa, in a statement in response to Folarin’s attack on Governor Makinde, said that the Senator “dished out lies about Makinde” while declaring his governorship ambition at the APC Secretariat in Ibadan.
The governor’s aide, who wondered why Folarin turned an event designed for him to declare his 2023 governorship ambition into a fiesta of lies, said the Oyo State electorate would not fall for the lies of APC chieftains, including Folarin, against Governor Makinde.
The governor’s aide declared that it was laughable that despite the massive infrastructure development, improvement in the education and health sectors and other efforts of the Makinde government in the last three years, Folarin could still say he was coming to rescue Oyo State “because every tangible project in the state was done by the previous government.”
According to Adisa, rather than Folarin articulating details of his agenda in comparison to Makinde’s globally acclaimed Roadmap to Accelerated Development of Oyo State, 2019-2023, he only marshaled a couple of lies, which insulted the sensibilities of Oyo State residents across the five zones of the state, who have continued to laud Governor Makinde for good governance in the state.
Adisa, however, commended Folarin for telling residents of Oyo State what they already suspect; that governorship aspirants in APC were bad products, as according to him [Adisa], there is no basis to compare Makinde with any of them.
Adisa said: “We have read with amusement words credited to an Oyo APC governorship aspirant, Senator Teslim Folarin, that he is coming to rescue Oyo State and that none of the aspirants in the ill-fated APC, Oyo State chapter is as bad as Governor Makinde.
“Indeed, we must commend Folarin for letting the Oyo State public know that governorship aspirants in APC are bad products. However, there is no basis to compare any of the APC governorship aspirants with Governor Makinde.
“Nobody can compare light with darkness. In three years, Makinde has done what the APC government failed to do in eight years; building over 500 kilometres of road, putting in place a free and qualitative education system, improving the health and security sector and all that.
“Senator Folarin was also credited to have said that all tangible projects in the state were done by the previous government. This is an outright lie and we are sure that the people of Oyo State do not need such a lie. The people will not fall for cheap lies and deceit.
“It is easy to ask whether it was the previous APC government that built the 65 km Moniya-Iseyin road, the 45km Saki-Ogbooro-Igboho Road, the 12km Awotan- Akufo concrete road, the 38km Oyo-Iseyin road and the 76 km Ogbomoso-Iseyin road, which are at various stages of completion as we speak.
“The people will also ask whether it was the failed APC administration of 2011 to 2019 that built the magnificent Bus Terminals at Ojoo and Challenge as well the Terminals at Iwo Road and Old Ife Road, which are nearing completion.
“It can be seen that Folarin has not been in touch with the reality in Oyo State, he thus needs to connect with Oyo State people and his followers, who could tell him the state of things regarding infrastructure development under the Makinde government.
“He needs to at least be conversant with his local government, Ona-Ara, where massive developments are ongoing. He needs to be told that in his Ona-Ara Local Govt of origin, the Makinde government is building the 37-kilometre Akanran-Olorunsogo-Dagbolu and 21 Ajia-Airport Road with spur to Amuloko and the two will be commissioned shortly.
“In order to end his apparent lack of information or is it denial of reality, we will volunteer to take the senator on a tour of tangible projects across the state, from Moniya-Iseyin Road, to Asipa-Sabo-Gedu-Oroki Road to the Saki Township Road, and also visit ongoing road projects in Oyo-Iseyin and the 76-kilometre Iseyin-Ogbomoso roads and end the trip in Ona-Ara.”
Adisa warned Folarin to stop his unnecessary obsession with attacking Makinde, urging him to focus on how to convince his partymen in the APC to accept him as candidate despite his undemocratic credentials.
“We urge Folarin to focus his energy on convincing those he met in APC, when he defected from PDP which he ruined with his undemocratic tendencies, rather than inciting the people and engaging in baseless conspiracies against a government that is delivering good governance,” the statement added.
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan said on Tuesday that the Senate will intervene in the lingering dispute between the Federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) by bringing back the two parties to the negotiation table.
Lawan made the promise to the officials of the National Association of Nigerian Students(NANS) who were led to his office by a concerned Methodist Bishop, Dr. Sunday Ndukwo Onuoha.
The NANS President, Sunday Asefon who spoke for his other colleagues lamented their continued stay at home and disruption of their academic programme and urged the Senate President to intervene in the dispute between the Federal government and the University teachers.
Responding, the Senate President expressed unhappiness about the turn of events, recalling that the Senate had intervened in the past before everything broke down again.
He however promised that the Senate would wade in again and expressed optimism that the issues would soon be resolved.
“You are in the right place. We are going to intervene. We will make concerted and sustained efforts to bring back ASUU and the Federal government to the negotiating table so that we are able to resolve as quickly as possible those issues that are now very knotty and have stopped our Universities from reopening, that is now making our students walking the streets all over the country.
“But I want to appeal to you too, since we are going to make effort to bring back everybody back to the negotiating table, you should give us a chance to do that believing that we are going to find a solution because it is not only enough to bring them back to the negotiating table, but we will participate and I want to make sure that we find the solution when we start the negotiation again.
“Now that you have come here, we are going to make sure that everybody in this sector especially those in public sector who has responsibility and mandate perform their functions. We will make sure they do that.
“Because you have come, I think we also have some tonic enough in us. Time is of essence and we must do whatever is necessary to get this issue resolved.
Also responding to the threat by the students to distrupt political activities, Lawan appealed to them to continue in the path of consultation and avoid confrontation.
“I want to also advise, I don’t think it will be necessary to distrupt political activities. We shouldn’t do that and we don’t need to do that.
‘What we need to do is to continue to follow the path of consultation, consolidation and avoid confrontation. It is when you emphasise consultation, it is much easier for us to find something that you can consolidate.
“Your prayer that you want the Federal government and ASUU back to negotiate and resolve the issues. We have taken this prayer. We have endorsed it and we will work for it as quickly as possible.
“It is an opportunity for me also to appeal to ASUU to suspend this strike period because there is no way ASUU can negotiate with the Federal government when it is on strike. So it is an opportunity for us to have them, at least create a window, suspend the strike for a certain period and let us see how far we can go.
“I want to be very positive that we are going to resolve this issue as soon as possible by the Grace of God,” Lawan said.
The Senate President said the 2009 agreement which is the Crux of the matter was not properly thought out before it was signed.
“Somebody just wanted ASUU to go back to the classroom and just signed everything there.We must understand that there are things that when we promise we should do, we must do,” Lawan said.
The erstwhile PDP Senator representing Oyo South Senatorial District, Sen. Kola Balogun has alleged that the Light Up Oyo Project is a scan that was set up to serve milk the resources of the State dry and serve the personal interest of some few individuals in the state.
Waterfield Luxury Hotel, Akobo, Ibadan.
He made the allegation yesterday at an event organised to formally announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). “They claimed they are lighting up Oyo State with streetlights. Ask them, whose company is selling the diesel they use to power the generator they use to run the streetlight. They are just serving their personal interests,” he said. Senator Balogun also berated the PDP-led administration, under the leadership of Governor Seyi Makinde, for the pervading high level of insecurity in the state.
He alleged that hoodlums have taken over Oyo State, maiming and killing recklessly and unchecked, especially in the Ibadan metropolis. Senator Kola Balogun also described his defection from the PDP to the main opposition party in the state as a journey back home.
He said he did not defect to the APC but “came back home” and appreciated President Muhammadu Buhari, the APC national leadership, the state chairman of the party, Mr Isaac Omodewu and other party executives and leaders for accepting him back to the APC fold. “I didn’t decamp into the APC. Rather, I came back home. I went to the PDP on sabbatical,” the senator representing Oyo South Senatorial District said on his speech.
Speaking on his sojourn in his former political party, the PDP, Senator Balogun said he helped to secure victory for the party in 2019, when its ticket was not attractive to anybody. “The senatorial ticket the Oyo PDP gave to me was fake, ‘gude’. Everyone else they gave it to rejected it. I accepted and secured victory for the party. Now they are making a useless case out of it,” he said.
Senator Kola Balogun was joined in the defection by several members and of his political team, the MKB Gladiators, and supporters in his former party to the APC. Prominent among those who defected with him are Prince Adeniran Adeyanju, chairman, Providence Coalition Nigeria (Ibadan North Local Government); Alhaji Teslim Omilabu Gandhi (former chairman Ibadan North), Alhaji Adebayo Aruna, legislative aide, National Assembly (Egbeda) and Hon Adeniyi Ajani Possible, former House of Representatives aspirant (Ibadan North).
Others included Dr. Kayode Hamzaat- Legislative Assistant (Ibadan North West); Akintoye Akinyemi, a former member, Governing Council Alayande College of Education (Ibarapa Central); Hon Adebowale Adeyoju, aspirant, House of Assembly (Ibadan North) and members of the Itesiwaju Oyo Group, represented by their president, Comrade S.O. Olawale.
The lawmaker representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju State Constituency, Hon. Dele Adeola has made it known to the people of his constituency on his legislative roles towards the establishment of tertiary institution in Iseyin.
He said keen observers would recall some of his activities at the State Assembly to ensure the realization of the campus.
He stated further that the journey to the sighting of the campus kickstarted when he personally asked Governor Seyi Makinde during budget presentation on the imperative of the establishment of LAUTECH Satellite Campus in Iseyin.
Adeola revealed this while he was answering to some questions on a radio programme tagged Legislative Chambers on AGIDIGBO FM, Ibadan.
Adeola further averred that some of the monumental achievements of the executive arm of government especially in Oke-Ogun, including the Iseyin/Moniya road, OYSADEP building, LAUTECH Iseyin, ongoing Iseyin/Ogbomosho road, Iseyin/Oyo road among other projects were carefully backed up with motions he had sponsored on the floor of the State Assembly.
He however enlightened the populace on the primary responsibility of the legislature which has been enacting of law for overall betterment of the citizenry.
He also highlighted some of the community development services he had embarked on which include several boreholes, construction of maternity hospital, free medical check-up and surgeries for thousands of people, football competition, scholarships to students, essay competition, palliatives to aged and widows, empowerment of farmers, grading of roads, facilitation of employment opportunities for constituents and the recent mega empowerment where sewing machines, grinding machines, generators, farm equipment, cash gifts among others were given to the constituents.
He therefore commended Gov Seyi Makinde for the synergy and peaceful relationship between the executive arm and legislative arm which has brought growth and development to Oyo State.
