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…
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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…
Ahead of the Saturday state congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, leaders and stakeholders of the party have asked party leaders in Oke-Ogun Zone to produce consensus candidate for the position of state chairman. The State Affairs NG reported that Hon. Isaac Ajiboye Omodewu (Itesiwaju LGA), Alhaji Abu Gbadamosi (Kajola LGA), Engr. Yekeen Abolade (Iseyin LGA) and Hon. Dele Akinleye (Itesiwaju LGA) have been cleared by Engr. Idris Adeoye-led Screening Panel to vie for state chairmanship seat of Oyo APC in the Saturday rescheduled congress. The party leaders and stakeholders at their Thursday meeting held at…
Oyo State Former Transition Committee Members (OFORTRACOM) has accused leaders the Unity Forum within the All Progressives Congress (APC) of being behind fake news that are causing crisis among party gladiators in the state. OFORTRACOM, in a statement released by its State Coordinator, Hon. Bakare Akomola and State Secretary, Hon. Ganiyu Tajudeen, accused Unity Forum leaders of being behind the news stories titled “PHOTOS: Florence Ajimobi, Ogunesan, Buhari, Others Moves Against Omodewu Ahead of APC Congress”; “Oyo: Concerned APC Members Counter Rumours Against Florence Ajimobi, Slam Slanderers”; and “Oyo APC Chair: Oke, Florence, Adeolu, Peller, Ogunesan, Back Unity Forum Leader,…
Facts have emerged as to why the state congress of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has been rescheduled to hold on Saturday, 30th of October 2021. The State Affairs NG reported how the congress was postponed on two different occasions. A member of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the APC and federal lawmaker representing Ibadan North Federal Constituency, Hon. Olaide Akinremi announced the new date on Tuesday in Abuja, after the decision was reached by APC CECPC. He stated that the State Congress Committee would arrive Oyo State any moment and the committee members have been instructed…
As Nigeria approaches 2023 general election, Wale Olaleye writes that the choice the country makes is critical to her future How do you write about Nigeria’s political trajectory especially, her contemporary history and not devote generous pages to both Senator Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, who is one of the most noted leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president and presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election? Misgivings notwithstanding, these two men have not only paid their dues, they have also…
Oga, mek we kill am!, the gangling police constable had told my father. This was sometime in the early 1980s and the scene was the ever-busy Ilesa-Akure expressway, in the old Oyo, now Osun State. My father, an Inspector in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), headed the Ilesa Signals Corps of the police. However, short of officers to lead police patrols, in the light of the ever-bludgeoning criminal activities in the Ife-Ijesa zone of the time, the Divisional Police Officer authoritatively yanked the Inspector from his signals unit office drudgery. He then drafted him to the road. On this particular…
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has reignited his penalty row with Manchester United’s Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ahead of Sunday’s Premier League clash at Old Trafford by saying United are given a “quite exceptional” number of spot-kicks by referees. Klopp claimed last January, following the failure of the referee to award a penalty during a defeat at Southampton, that United “had more penalties in two years than I had in five-and-a-half years.” Last season alone, United were awarded 11 Premier League penalties compared to Liverpool’s six, but since the start of this 2021-22 campaign in August, both teams have been awarded one…
Muslim convert and Manchester United football star Paul Pogba has revealed the reason why he holds the late boxer Muhammad Ali up as one of his heroes — and it was not because of his legendary record in the ring. The Arab News reports that the French national team star was responding to a question from Sky Sports asking who his hero was as a child. The 28-year-old midfielder said: “Muhammad Ali. He was someone that I think kind of saved lives. A hero is somebody that saves lives, that helps people, and I think that is what he did.”…