The Chairman of State Congress Committee for Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Gambo Lawan has disclaimed a news report that said the national secretariat has cancelled the last Saturday Congress in the state. According to him, APC CECPC only called for reconciliation among the warring parties, thus, invited all stakeholders, leaders and gladiators to a meeting on Thursday. Speaking with journalists on Tuesday evening, Gambo said the National Headquarters of APC under the caretaker chairmanship Governor Mai Buni only directed him to invite all the aggrieved parties to Abuja on Thursday to resolve all the grey areas, noting…
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Following the emergence of Hon. Isaac Ajiboye Omodewu and 35 others as state executives of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State last Saturday, Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has called for a meeting of party’s gladiators in the state. A party source at the national secretariat of the party told our Abuja correspondent that the CECPC has summoned a meeting of Oyo APC Stakeholders for Thursday. According to the party chieftain, the move is to reconcile the warring groups. Meanwhile, the Chairman, Oyo State Congress Committee for the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Gambo…
As 2019 election was approaching, there were serious agitations from various quarters, the major players were the Asorosoboto and Akigbemaru teams. The Akigbemaru accused Asorosoboto of taking leadership decisions all by himself being the main man at the helm of affairs then, all they wanted was leadership but Asorosoboto being an intelligent, outspoken, smart and highly principled man called those who matter in the scheme of politics and went ahead in executing his plan, but his anointed candidate didn’t make it to the end, in the spirit of sportsmanship he acceded to the party decision. On the other hand, the…
The Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC), Professor Adeolu Akande has called on members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State to remain calm over the lingering crisis trailing the conduct of the party’s state congress, which saw Hon. Isaac Omodewu as new state chairman of the progressive family. Adeolu, in a statement he personally signed and made available to journalists in Ibadan on Sunday, stated that each of the three levels of the congress held in the state remains contentious and calls for the resolute intervention of the national leadership of the party. The statement read in parts:…
Following the eventual conduct of State Congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State on Saturday, October 30th 2021, minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare has called for calm among members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) while insisting that only an all inclusive, transparent and fair congress can save the party in Oyo state from imminent crisis. The minister, however, assured that the national leadership of the party will make the right decision in the matter at hand. “The different parts of Oyo APC forged the unity required by all. This later day seeming hijack of…
The newly-elected State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Hon. Isaac Ajiboye Omodewu has lauded solid foundation laid by his predecessor in office, Chief Akin Oke; saying he has kicked off reconciliation moves. Hon. Omodewu, in a statement he personally signed and made available to journalists in Ibadan on Sunday, stated that he would neither grandstand nor bask in the euphoria of self-conviction that all is well within APC Oyo State, when indeed the facts on ground are very obvious. He noted that the newly-elected party executives could not carry out the great tasks of uniting…
Few hours to the State Congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, a group within the party, The United Front (TUF), says it has uncovered plot by the Unity Forum in sync with Mr. Tiri Olowoposi-led faction of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) to incite violence at Obafemi Awolowo Stadium Ibadan, venue of the exercise. TUF, in a statement signed by its Coordinator – Hon. Razaq Bello and made available to journalists in Ibadan on Friday, said it was informed of this by Unity Forum members who are seeking allegiance with mainstream Oyo State…
The Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on party members in Oyo State to discountenance a statement credited to the parry’s State Caretaker Committee Chairman, Chief Akin Oke that ward and local congresses results have been falsified. A member of APC CECPC, Hon. Musiliu Olaide Akinremi, in a chat with journalists on Friday evening, stated that only the national secretariat of the party can determine authentic results of the congresses. “The statement credited to Chief Akin Oke is to stoke tensions among our teeming members in Oyo State. I want to confirm that the…
One of the four Oyo APC chairmanship aspirants, Alhaji Abu Gbadamosi and his supporters are conspicuously missing in an ongoing meeting of party leaders from Oke-Ogun Zone 1. Abu’s absence at the ongoing meeting may be as a result of altercations he had with former deputy governor Iyiola Oladokun on Thursday at Oke-Ado. The State Affairs NG gathered that Alhaji Abu accused Oladokun of scheming to force his personal assistant, Mr. Dele Akinleye on party members in Oke-Ogun Zone 1, though the former deputy governor countered the Ilero-born politician. The State Affairs NG reports that former deputy governor of Oyo…
As the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State holds its state congress on October 30th 2021, prominent party leaders who have served in the executive and the legislative arms of late former governor Abiola Ajimobi’s administration are throwing their weights behind Hon. Isaac Ajiboye Omodewu as next State Chairman of the party. Omodewu who served as honourable commissioner for local government and chieftaincy matters as well as honourable commissioner for Lands and Housing under late governor Ajimobi, was a governorship aspirant of the party in the build to 2019 general elections. In a statement jointly signed on behalf of…