The importance of Oyo State in National Politics dates back to the advent of Democracy and Party Politics. While Lagos was seat of power in the center during the first Republic, Ibadan, now capital of Oyo State was the seat of power of the Western Region. It is safe to say that Oyo had been home to highly cerebral and flamboyant politicians who have made great marks on the sand of history. When you consider the exploits of likes of Ladoke Akintola, Adegoke Adelabu, Adisa Akinloye, Richard Akinjide, Lamidi Adedibu and many others, Oyo State never lacked characters who have…
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It’s interesting how the late former Governor Abiola Ajimobi kept scoring goals against Governor Makinde from all angles. If issues of policy formulation were a football game between the duo, I bet the late Ajimobi must have outscored Makinde by dozens margin. Governor Makinde’s cosmetics approach to governance are beginning to give way under his second term tagged Omi Tuntun 2.0. Most of the laudable policies of late Governor Ajimobi were reversed by Makinde during his first term. The School Governing Board system which Ajimobi came up established to interface between the parents, Alumni associations and the school authorities with…
Former governor of Oyo State and Otun Olubadan of Ibadan land, Sen. Rashidi Ladoja, has dragged the state governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde; Olubadan of Ibadan land, Oba Lekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II, and 10 members of the Olubadan-in-Council, who were recently elevated to Obas to court over the chieftaincy review. An online medium, 9jaSpectators, disclosed this on Wednesday. Oba Balogun had last Friday crowned the high chiefs as Obas, following the review of the state’s chieftaincy law by Makinde. However, Ladoja, who had kicked against the crowning of the high chiefs as obas, shunned the ceremony. Recall that Ladoja also…
Unarguably, Local Government Administration In Oyo State is in a state of comatose. Since the inception of Governor Makinde’s administration in 2019, his disdain for freedom of the third tier of Government is visible even to the blind. There are empirical evidence to conclude that local government administration have never been so stifled as it is now. Infrastructures in the local governments across Oyo State has totally collapsed due to paltry release of local government monthly allocation by the Governor. There is no doubt that the relationship between the Governor and the local government chairmen is like that of a…
Local government election in Nigeria have been perceived as a one sided affair where the ruling Party in a state just put together a charade to select pre-determined individuals to run the affairs of the Local governments. In fact, the general believe is that an opposition political party can not win a local government election conducted by the states Independent Electoral Commissions. Those who hold this view are largely but not totally correct. I think the only reason this perception have continue to resonate is the lack of will and strategy by opposition political parties to take on the ruling…
Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose says he is with the government of President Bola Tinubu but he won’t hesitate to criticise the current administration if it fails to fulfill its campaign promises to Nigerians. “If the government in power is not doing the right thing, we’ll be courageous enough to tell the government in power,” Fayose told State House correspondents after a meeting with the President on Thursday. “When (Muhammadu) Buhari was President in this country I didn’t shy away from telling him the truth and the government. If President Ahmed Bola Tinubu is shying away from his…
“About the ministerial list, the simple truth is that, you know, this is an executive presidency, we’re not running a parliamentary system “So the president, the bucks stops on his table, and he decides when it is fit and proper for him to make his cabinet list public. “So, we are not unaware of all the speculations, and innuendos and rumours, all kinds of things in the media. Now, I as a media man, I chuckled to myself that people just want to sell, so they just fabricate. “I can tell you all of those things you’ve been reading in…
When a person is privilege to have a final say in a matter, Yorubas will say, “…ati isu, ati obe, lowo e lo wa”, meaning, such a person holds the knife and the yam and is expected to cut as he likes. There is also a Yoruba panegyric of the “Olofamojos” which interestingly align and seems to complement how the holder of both the knife and the yam is expected to cut the yam and it goes, “…ikan o gbodo ju kan….bi ikan ba ju kan, ogun nii da sile nile baba won” and it translates to mean that in…
AS former governor Nyesom Wike gains prominence in speculations over likely ministerial appointees to form President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has denied ceding the ministerial slot of the state to Wike. Rivers APC in response to media reports suggesting the party has ceded ministerial slot to Wike said in Port Harcourt Wednesday that the thought has never crossed its mind and the burden would be on President Bola Tinubu to respect party supremacy and not consider Wike for appointment. The Amalgamated Bola Tinubu Campaign Council, an APC interest group under the headship of…
Major stakeholders of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers state, have urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to strongly consider the former governor of River State, Nyesom Wike, in his Ministerial appointments. The stakeholders under the aegis of Amalgamated Bola Tinubu Campaign Council Rivers State, led by former Chief of Staff to the Rivers State Government and stalwart of the party, Chief Tony Okocha, explained that the call was premised on the ‘enormous’ roles played by Wike which ensured Tinubu’s sustained victory in the state, during the February 25 presidential election. Furthermore, he called on the general public, at a briefing…