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 Members of Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) rose from a peace meeting in Ibadan, on Sunday, with a resolve to dislodge Governor Seyi Makinde come 2023. Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State made this disclosure on Sunday in his Jericho Ibadan residence after an expanded reconciliation meeting, which he convened. “Former Adebayo Alao-Akala remains the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state. Oyo APC is working assiduously to attain unity with a view to dislodging Governor Seyi Makinde-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)” he said. When told that some members of the party in the state were against Alao-Akala as the leader of Oyo APC, he said the former governor remained the leader of the party, adding that he was not aware of such dissenting voices. “I am not aware of any group. I am aware of stakeholders in our party, some who for one reason or the other are aggrieved and felt that certain things ought to be done to bring everybody...

   Soun of Ogbomoso land, Oba Oladunni Oyewumi Ajagungbade III, has expressed sadness over the passing of Emir of Zazzau and Chairman of Kaduna State Emirate Council, Alhaji Shehu Idris. Acknowledging his age-long personal relationship with the late Emir, Oba Oyewumi described the deceased as a reliable and dependable friend, adding that the exemplary qualities of the late Emir were worthy of emulation by all leaders. Lamenting the demise of the monarch, the first class traditional ruler, who is also the Chancellor of Plateau State University, Bokkos, stressed that the traditional institution has lost a great asset. In a condolence message by the monarch, signed by his Private Secretary, Toyin Ajamu, Oba Oyewumi extended his heartfelt condolences to the Zazzau Emirate Council, people and government of Kaduna State, over the sad loss. “I was pained when I received the news of the passing of my good friend, Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Shehu Idris. My relationship with the late Alhaji...

    The Executive Governor of Oyo state, Engr. Seyi Makinde has described the victory of Governor Godwin Obaseki and Deputy Governor, Phillip Shaibu as well deserved in the just concluded Edo gubernatorial election. On Sunday afternoon, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced re-election of Obaseki as governor of Edo State. He polled 307,955 votes in Saturday’s governorship election to defeat his closest rival, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the Peoples Democratic Party, who scored 223,619 votes. Obaseki, who is the incumbent governor of Edo State, won in 13 local government areas to secure his reelection for another term. Ize Iyamu won in 5 local government areas. The PDP candidate won in Egor, Esan Central, Esan North East, Esan South East, Esan West, Ikpoba-Okha, Oredo, Ovia North East, Owan West, Uhunmwonde, Igueben, Orhionmwon and Ovia South West LGAs. Ize-Iyamu won in Akoko-Edo, Etsako Central, Etsako East, Etsako West and Owan East LGAs. Obaseki was d...

POLITICS       By Muyiwa Adeyemi and Rotimi Agboluaje          • As Warring Factions Fail To Back Down They are bonded by one political platform, but Oyo State All Progressives Congress’s (APC) members are not pushing a common front. And efforts to unite the warring factions had been unsuccessful, decapitating the party from playing its opposition role to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Efforts to ensure peace returns to the party started after the 2019 general elections, when the late Isiaq Abiola Ajumobi set up a 16-member reconciliation committee headed by former Governor Adebayo Alao- Akala. Some aggrieved party members greeted the announcement of the committee’s members with condemnation, saying the former governor was incompetent, wondering why a new entrant into the party should be saddled with such a responsibility. They also said Alao-Akala, a non-progressive, to them, was given the responsibility by Ajimobi to mai...

  A Chieftain in Oyo All Progressives Congress, Barrister Adebayo Shittu has said his party in the state has many qualified and experienced political leaders, so it will be difficult to centred leadership control on one person. Shittu, the former communications minister, opined that, to reinstall peace in the party, the party need a collegiate leadership system.   The Oke-Ogun born politician on radio, at Splash FM, Ibadan last Saturday said with the ongoing reconciliation of aggrieved group and individuals in the All Progressives Congress in Oyo state, all have decided to bury their grievances and work for the success of the party. When asked if he is ready to align with former governor Alao Akala as the party leader in the state, Shittu explained that, saddling the party leadership on single hand is needless, as what the party now is a collegiate leadership system. “Without doubt, Akala is an elder and he has served as a governor. And even me as a small boy, I have been a po...

  Ajayi Crowther University (ACU), Oyo, has unveiled Prof. Timothy Adebayo as the new Vice-Chancellor to succeed Prof. Dapo Asaju by end of October. Chief Wole Olanipekun SAN, the Chairman of ACU governing council, unveiled the new vice-chancellor on Thursday in Oyo. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that Adebayo, a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, is the 4th vice-chancellor of the university. Olanipekun said that the institution’s governing council had approved the appointment of Adebayo as a successor to Asaju, having satisfied all the requirements of the institutions. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria said that the council observed all the due process of appointing a vice-chancellor. “Today, Council has approved the appointment of Prof. Timothy Abiodun Adebayo, a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, as a successor to Prof. Asaju, as new vice-chancellor. “This is t...

  Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Account, on Friday, drilled the management of the Ladoke Akintola University Ogbomoso and the Technical University Ibadan over what they call missing links in the deployment of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). The committee, which is on oversight function to Oyo State, quizzed the heads of other schools, parastatals and organizations, including the Federal College of Education, Oyo, handlers of N-Power, homegrown school feeding programme, and State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) at a session held in Jogor Centre, Ibadan.   Chairman of the inspection committee to Oyo State and lawmaker representing Ibadan North-West/Ibadan South-West Federal Constituency, Honourable Stanley Adedeji, said though the committee was yet to visit sites of projects listed in the submitted documents, the committee had uncovered some missing links in the presentations made by the heads of the schools. Other members of th...