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The newly inaugurated Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, has frozen all government accounts in the state. Adeleke directed this in his first executive order upon inauguration on Sunday. Adeleke, in his speech delivered at the inauguration, alleged that the erstwhile governor of the state, Adegboyega Oyetola, carried out some actions “maliciously” after he (Adeleke) won the July 16 governorship election, including “hurried” employments without provisions to sustain them. He claimed these actions were roadblocks channeled at making things difficult for his administration. Adeleke also reversed the state name from ‘State of Osun’ to ‘Osun State’, saying the former was…
Immediate past Governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola has disclosed that his administration is leaving behind for the incoming government a total sum of N14billion cash in the State’s coffers. Oyetola also revealed that his government had successfully paid N97billion from the total debt inherited in 2018 when he assumed office. He disclosed that his administration didn’t borrow a dime anywhere in the world to finance the economy of the State, saying he successfully kept faith and maintained fidelity with his electoral promises since the assumption of office. The former Governor made the disclosure in his farewell statement to the…
Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State on Thursday approved the appointment of Permanent Secretaries to fill existing vacancies in the State Civil Service. The top government officials have occupied the positions of Coordinating Directors of their various ministries awaiting their appointment into the position of PS. Head of Service, Festus Olowogboyega Oyebade, in a memo announced the appointment of the new Permanent Secretary on behalf of the state government. But the Governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke, threatened to sack them when he takes over two days from now. Adeleke, who spoke through his media aide, Olawale Rasheed, warned the officials that they…
A policy think tank, Nextier, has revealed in a survey that the South-West has been recognised as the battleground for major presidential contenders from various parties in the 2023 presidential election. The independent survey was carried out among registered voters in rural communities across the country. The study, which our correspondent saw on Monday, was a face-to-face poll of registered voters in rural communities across 12 Nigerian states. Rural communities were characterised in the study as local government areas with no tertiary educational institutions. The survey team conducted the polls in two states in each of the six geopolitical zones…
Impeached Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Gboyega Aribisogan, has called on prominent indigenes of the state to intervene in the crisis rocking the state legislative house. Aribisogan, at a press conference in Abuja on Monday, particularly urged legal luminaries from the state to rise up and stop the political crisis in Ekiti over what he called external interference in the election of the speaker of the Assembly. It would be recalled that 17 out of the 25 members of the Assembly, on Monday, impeached Aribisogan and elected Olubunmi Adelugba as the new Speaker. The Assembly complex had…
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has officially endorsed Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, for the 2023 general elections. Ohanaeze said Obi represents “Nigerian conscience, moral probity, generational hope, redemption epiphany, and above all, the Igbo collective unconscious.” The Igbo body, which stated this in a statement on Sunday titled, ‘2023: On SMBLF Position We Stand,’ signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Alex Ogbonnia, noted that the Labour Party’s candidate had filled what could have been a sad gap if he had not been on the ballot. The statement said, “In the first place, going by the principles…
The five governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dubbed as G5 say they are open to reconciliation on the crisis battling the party. Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, and his colleagues from other states met in Lagos to discuss issues on the crisis facing the PDP. Other governors in the G5 group led by Wike are Seyi Makinde of Oyo, Samuel Ortom of Benue, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu. Olusegun Mimiko, former governor of Ondo, Ayo Fayose, former governor of Ekiti, Donald Duke, former governor of Cross River, Bode George, former deputy national chairman, were…
President Muhammadu Buhari and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, yesterday, led governors of the party, ministers, National Working Committee members and other party leaders to Jos, Plateau State to flag off the presidential campaign rally of the party. During the rally, held at Jos Township Stadium, Buhari, assisted by Adamu, handed over the party’s flag to Tinubu. The President also reiterated his promise to lead the party’s campaign for the 2023 presidential election. The flag off had in attendance vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, Senate President Ahmed Lawan and Speaker of the House Representatives, Femi…
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has responded to the criticism of Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra. In a recent interview on Channels Television, Soludo had said the investments Obi made for Anambra while he was governor are now “worth next to nothing”. Also, in an article published on Monday titled ‘History Beckons and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1)’, the former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), said the LP candidate does not have the necessary structure in place to win the presidency. Speaking on Tuesday at the Lagos Business School (LBS) 2022 alumni…
The apex socio-cultural organisation in Igboland, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has lashed out at Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, over his comment on a former Governor of the state and presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi. This was as the Igbo group said it had dragged Soludo to two deities in Igboland, for discrediting the legacies of Obi. The group said this in a statement signed by its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, on Tuesday. Soludo, had in a lengthy letter, maintained that Obi was not ready for the presidential race, declaring he was merely catching…
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