As they say, there are always two sides to a coin. It is unfortunate that Mutalubi, at this time will still consider “the electorates as deluded or acted “mobbly” by preferring Kola Balogun over the suave, urbane, widely exposed and experienced Senator Abiola Ajimobi” at the 2019 election that brought Kola Balogun in as Oyo South Senator. I must say Mutalubi should be told the fact. One would have preferred to allow the soul of Sen. Abiola Ajimobi rest peacefully by not dragging his names into unnecessary negative memories as our energies should by now be concerted on making peace…
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Dr. Festus Adedayo is a political communication scholar, author and lawyer. He was a media adviser to two executive governors. In this interview with ROTIMI AGBOLUAJE, he spoke on the challenges facing media in Nigeria today. How can the media industry produce quality hands for this generation? IT’S distressing when you look at the media industry. At the time we got into journalism, our predecessors told us that we didn’t meet the industry at its prime. Even the one we met was such that we were encouraged. I told some of my colleagues recently that then, if you were going…
There was tension inside the main bowl of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, on this day, December 11, 2014. President Goodluck Jonathan, having been rendered one of the most worthless clothes a people could wear on their festive day by the demolition propaganda machine of the All Progressives Congress (APC) it was obvious that whoever scored a bullseye inside the Balogun Stadium was the next president of Nigeria. On parade were Buhari himself, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; ex-Kano state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso; ex-Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha and Sam Nda-Isaiah, publisher of Leadership newspapers. All the candidates attempted to…
Just four days after Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III joined his ancestors, Prince Adebayo Adeyemi alias D Gov is reportedly dead. The State Affairs NG reliably gathered that the Oyo kingdom Prince died of diabetes. Prince Adebayo was candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 house of representatives election in Oyo federal constituency but lost the election to his brother, Prince Akeem Adeyemi, who was re-elected for the second term. He was appointed by Governor Seyi Makinde as Chairman of the Oyo State Local Government Pension Board. More Details Later…
The Speaker of Bauchi State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Abubakar Sulaiman, on Saturday night, announced his defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Abubakar, who is the chairman, Conference of Speakers of State Houses of Assembly, made this known during the Ramadan Iftar (breaking of fast) hosted by the State governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, for PDP stakeholders from Ningi, Toro, Warji and Dass Local Government Areas of the State at the Government House, Bauchi. The Speaker said that his decision to defect to the PDP was in recognition of the exemplary…
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, on Friday, said it won’t support the presidential ambition of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and All Progressives Congress National Leader, Bola Tinubu. Ohanaeze National Publicity Secretary, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, who stated this in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH, emphasised that it was the turn of the South-East to produce Nigeria’s next President and not the South-West. He added that separatist agitations would increase in the South-East if the zone does not produce the next President. Ogbonnia urged both Osinbajo and Tinubu to drop their 2023 ambition and back a competent aspirant from…
Engr. Joseph Tegbe has confirmed his defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State. The former governorship aspirant of the opposition party made this known in a statement issued on Thursday and made available to journalists. The State Affairs NG reports that the technocrat cum politician has left all WhatsApp groups of his former party. The statement reads: Many years ago, I made a commitment to always contribute to the development of our society in whatever God-given capacity. In 2018, after serving government in different non-political capacities, I offered to serve…
Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo State, has netted a big fish, his biggest in close to three years in office. The crisis in the All Progressives Congress, APC, claimed its first casualty its first casualty, it has lost an influential member. Joseph Tegbe, Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU-trained engineer, management consultant, tax advisor and senior partner and head, technology advisory and markets for KPMG in Nigeria, is no longer a member of the opposition party in the state. Like a typical Ibadanman, he will move from Ibadan South East in Oyo South to his village in Ona-Ara local government in…
The essential currency of a politician is trustworthiness! Gov Seyi Makinde works hard at creating the image for the public that he is trustworthy, that he keeps his promises, that he can be trusted. Alas, this is nothing but a front and a prentention, the political class discovered too late, the good people of Oyo State should not suffer the same. When a man who pretended to be humble and trustworthy, to obtain the platform of a political party, PDP from her custodians and the support of a Coalition to come to power, turns his back on the Coalition immediately…