“If you are unlucky not to have a representative in the judicial council, even if you are innocent, you can be found guilty – B’eyan o l’eni ni’gbimo, bo ro’jo are, ebi lo mi a je.” This very profound saying of the Yoruba, translated into a pithy musical line in one of the tracks of Alhaji Ayinla Omowura, late Yoruba Apala musician, point unmistakably to the fact that corruption and favouritism predate colonialism in Africa. When you jointly read this line and D. O. Olagoke’s 1962-written play entitled The Incorruptible Judge, you will understand why it is almost an impossibility…
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Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ibadan North local government have raised the alarm over the anti-party activities of a member of House of Representatives representing the Federal constituency, Hon. Musiliu Akinremi popularity known as Jagaban. The members – Mr. Ibrahim Jokanola and Hon. Isaac Aransi said aside the directive the lawmaker gave to his supporters to work for Governor Seyi Makinde of PDP, Akinremi also mobilised them with fund to buy votes at various polling units at The Polytechnic Ibadan, University of Ibadan and Sango areas of Ibadan North LGA. The party members who spoke with our…
The battle for the Agodi Government House job might have been narrowed down to two candidates in Oyo State barely 24hours to election, if information in some quarters is anything to go by. Before now, the race was touted to be between the incumbent Governor Seyi Makinde (PDP), Senator Teslim Folarin (APC) and Oloye Adebayo Adelabu (Accord). A top source who spoke on the condition of anonymity but close to the powers-that-be in the state said the candidate of the Accord might have “agreed” to collapse his structure and work for the re-election bid of Governor Makinde. But,…
Jittery over the last week endorsement of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Teslim Kolawole Folarin by Christians in Ogbomoso land, the governor of the state, Seyi Makinde has asked Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Oyewo Oyelowo and Chairman of the state’s Pilgrims Welfare Board (Christian Wing), Bishop Ademola Moradeyo who are both from Ogbomosoland to bribe pastors in Ogbomoso with the sum of N200million, oyoecho.com reliably gathered. Impeccable source told our correspondent in Ibadan on Wednesday that the duo of Moradeyo and Oyelowo had been given N200million to distribute to pastors in…
Makinde has done his best but honestly as a critical stakeholder with understanding of the working system of governance, expectations and deliverables, he failed in very critical aspects of governance. Governance is serious business. Not trials and error, just like flying an airplane, it’s about managing peoples lives and you can’t afford to experiment with it. Here are some of the several errors of GSM and why he does not deserve a second term. 1. Insecurity of the worst level. His unrepentant attitude of hobnobbing with touts and dangerous gangsters is appalling. We had thought that Ibadan and Oyo State…
Members of ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State are currently rioting at Sango, Eleyele, Mokola, Oje and Adeoyo area of Ibadan to stage a protest against cash and fuel scarcity ahead of Thursday APC Presidential Campaign in the state capital. Recall that similar protest was staged on last week Monday, which forced the APC to postpone the rally. The State Affairs reliably gathered that Governor Seyi Makinde has given secret order to PDP members to frustrate the APC Presidential Campaign, scheduled to take place at Mapo Hall on Thursday. A top member of aggrieved PDP group in the…
In 1984, Nigeria happened to Ayanyemi Atokowagbowonle. Atokowagbowonle was a musician whose style was unique, his delivery peculiar and he was the official musician of the stormy petrel of Ibadan politics, Adelabu Adegoke, a.k.a. Penkelemes, of the National Council of Nigeria and Cameroon (NCNC). The then-new head of state, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, had just violently seized the reins of power in Nigeria. That year April, Buhari had ordered the colours of all banknotes in circulation to be changed. The currency trafficking prevalent at the time and stolen funds by politicians must be repatriated, he said. The Naira’s official exchange…
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Trade Union Congress, TUC, and the Joint Negotiating Council in Oyo state has issued a January 31, 2023 date to embark on strike should the state government fail to fulfil its promise to pay the unions five months check off dues and cooperative deductions. Rising from a meeting on Thursday in Ibadan, the state capital, the executive members of the unions who lamented the pitiable conditions of Nigerian workers in the face of crushing poverty, general insecurity and increasing cost of price of petrol, urged the Federal Government to revert to the N169 per litre…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state has challenged Governor Seyi Makinde to provide detailed account of what he has done with the sum of over N706billion believed to have accrued to the state government coffers, the 33 local government councils as monthly allocations from the federal government and the state internally generated revenue in the last 42 months or be ready to face the wrath of the law after May 29, 2023 when his tenure of office would have ended. Oyo APC’s challenge came against the backdrop of President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent revelation about state governors hiding under…
Bala-blu-blu-bulaba, All Progressives Congress (APC’s) festival of incoherences, should attract a writer. So also the celebration and justification of its impending fatality. Feeble and laughable as it may seem, Festus Keyamo’s Ananias and Saphirra role in this frightening reality too should not escape a dissection. I would have loved to ask Keyamo, in the words of Peter Tosh, “Where are you gonna run to” on judgment day? However, about the time of this meaningless waffle, I was presenting a paper entitled Between Ayinla Omowura and Ayinde Barrister: Conflicting Notions of Superstardom in Fuji and Apala Music at the African Studies…