The Chairman of Progressive Governors, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved February 2022 for the conduct of the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC). President Buhari, on Monday, met with some of the governors of the party led by Chairman of APC national caretaker committee and Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni. Also present at the meeting were governors Atiku Bagudu and Abubakar Badaru. Speaking to correspondents after the meeting which took place in the president’s office, Bagudu disclosed that the meeting was to convey the decision of Sunday night meeting of the…
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The Nigeria Union of Journalists Oyo State council on Thursday dissociated itself from the purported disqualification of some Members of the Union in the ongoing election into the offices of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), State chapter. This clarification becomes imperative following the members’ outcry laced with several petitions by NAWOJ members concerning the alleged irregularities in all the processes adopted by the 3-man Credentials committee and the external forces that is attempting to foist chaos ‘on our peaceful council.’ ”We have been inundated with complaints by NAWOJ members over the secrecy and cult-like approach so far adopted…
At No 9, Rumuibekwe Road in Port Harcourt on November 10, 1995, the devil sat in a corner, having a saturnalia. No one could see him. He wore dark goggles, donning the uniform of a five-star Army General, wrapped up in a huge celebratory mood. His arch-enemy, Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists had just been hanged at the Port Harcourt Prison. Inside No 9, Rumuibekwe, family members sat on the hood of parked disused cars, weeping profusely, others holding their heads in anguish. By that instant the most recently widowed woman in the world, Hauwa Saro-Wiwa, was…
A group known has the Southern Nigeria Movement for Justice, has warned, that it would resist further attack on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele. The group said it is determined, to henceforth challenge what it called the series of orchestrated campaign of calumny, against the CBN Governor, Mr Emefiele, and by extension, the management of the nation’s apex bank, under his leadership. In a joint statement by its leaders and signed by Comrade Uche Osadebe, Olu Akindele and Ebede Benedict, the group said it has noticed the persistent call by those it described as…
More lights have been shed into the modalities in which the positions of the newly elected executives of All Progressives Congress (APC), Oyo State were shared across the geo-political zones and among the party stakeholders in the State. The sources within the party have disclosed that all the positions were shared among all the party gladiators including those opposing to the October 30th Congress in Liberty Stadium, Ibadan, the state capital. The sources further disclosed that the State Chairman, Hon. Isaac Ajiboye Omodewu (Itesiwaju LGA) is from Ajimobi Legacy Forum, who was two-term honourable commissioner under the administration of late…
A three-time former commissioner in Oyo State, Dr. Morohunkola Thomas, has attributed the crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state to the inexperience of some gladiators in the party. According to him, the crisis is a result of the selfish interest of major players who have no political experience. “There are many tendencies in the party but majority of them don’t understand the game. Where did they learn their politics? I mean which school? These are issues! Thomas who disclosed that he has stepped aside from partisan politics spoke while featuring on BOTTOM LINE – a weekly…
The Chairman Congress Committee of Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC), Gambo Lawan has descended on a Chieftain of the party in the state, Chief Niyi Akintola (SAN), saying he is a serial liar and not qualify to query his integrity. Gambo made the assertion while reacting to a statement credited to Akintola that national secretariat of the party in Abuja has no knowledge of his presence and appeal committee chairman in Ibadan on Friday. Reacting to this on Saturday, Lawan said considering the antecedents of Akintola, his outburst on him and others was nothing but figment of his imagination,…
Peace has finally returned to Oyo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as critical stakeholders met on Friday to approve harmonised list of Oyo State Executives of the party. The meeting, which was held at Awosika residence of former governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, was attended by zonal leaders and members of Oyo APC Elders’ Advisory Council. The Chairman of Oyo APC State Congress Appeal Panel Chairman, Chief (Dr.) Samuel Ogbuku was in attendance to authenticate the reconciled list of new state executives of the party as directed by APC CECPC. The resolution of the meeting reads in full:
Irked by the ongoing unpleasant scenarios within the rank and file of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Oyo state, one is constrained to sound a note of warning to the warring groups and individuals. Perhaps, such intervention can avert the looming dangers of permanent damages to the party. The despicable acts perpetrated by some selfish groups and individuals with an intent to control the party structure in their grand plan to clinch the party tickets as candidates of the party against the 2023 general elections is the main cause of the ‘roforofo’ fights which have bedeviled the party. Greed,…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has suspended the Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission, Prof. Adeolu Akande and the outgoing Secretary of the party, Hon. Mojeed Olaoya indefinitely for allegedly involving in anti-party activities. The indefinite suspension of both learders is coming on the heels of controversies that trailed the recently concluded state congress which produced Hon. Isaac Omodewu as the new Chairman of the party. It was gathered that there has been no end in sight to the internal crisis of the party which is allegedly sponsored by the likes of Akande and Olaoya with a purpose…