…as Ganduje presents governor-elect to Buhari
Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, on Friday described those protesting against the result of Osun State governorship election as being mentally unstable.
Recall that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus were among the PDP leaders that staged a protest against the outcome of the election at the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja.
Aregbesola spoke with State House correspondents on Friday after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Chairman of the APC Governorship Election Campaign in Osun State and Governor of Kano State, Umaru Ganduje and Governor Aregbesola, on Friday, also formally presented the Governor-elect of the Osun Election, Gboyega Oyetola to President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The governors also thanked the President for his support during the election.
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Osun Rerun: Aregbesola speaks on protests by PDP leaders against Oyetola’s victory
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Osun Rerun: Buhari summons Aregbesola, Oyetola
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met behind closed doors with the outgoing Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola.
He arrived the President’s office along with the governor-elect, Gboyega Oyetola.
Oyetola emerged the winner of the governorship election in Osun State after rerun election that followed the September 22nd election in the state.
The meeting with the President started around 12 noon.
It was still in progress at the time of filing this report.
Meanwhile, leadership of the opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are currently protesting at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the rerun elections.
They are demanding that INEC its governorship candidate, Ademola Adeleke winner of the elections.
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OSUN 2018: Aregbesola resumes payment of full salaries to workers
As the governorship election nears in Osun State, Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s has started paying full salaries to all categories of workers in the state.
The Chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress, Osun State chapter, Jacob Adekomi, disclosed this on Wednesday, according to The Punch.
Adekomi said local government workers and primary school teachers had started receiving payment alerts from their banks, adding that he had also received an alert of full salary for the month of July.
He said, “The state government has started paying us full salaries. But we are waiting for the payment of arrears of the balance of modulated salaries. We have already given them a 21-day ultimatum and we hope they will pay the arrears before the expiration of the ultimatum.
“Negotiation will soon commence and we are waiting for them to start paying us the arrears. But I can confirm that they have started paying us full salaries and I received the alert yesterday.”
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No document lost, serious damage in Aregbesola’s office inferno – Official
The Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Osun, Adelani Baderinwa has refuted media reports that important documents, equipment were lost in the fire incident which happened in Governor Aregbesola’s office on Monday evening.
Recall that the office was said to be on fire on Monday evening while efforts were in place to put it off. The governor was said to be on an official outing when the fire raged.
According to the commissioner, the fire incident was as a result of power surge which occurred at one of the Air Conditioners inside the office of the Governor.
The commissioner stated this in a statement released in Oshogbo on Monday night.
Read full statement below:
Osun Governor’s Office Catches Fire, No Document, Equipment Destroyed
The Office of the Governor of the State of Osun caught fire on Monday evening.
The fire incident was as a result of power surge which occurred at one of the Air Conditioners inside the office of the Governor.
It is heartening to note that not a single document, or equipment was destroyed and nobody was hurt.
We reiterate that every document in the governor’s office is intact.
It is not a serious fire outbreak.
The fire mainly affected the office of the Governor alone; no other office is affected.
It is regrettable that the electricity suppliers have been persistently unable to regulate the supply of power to meet the necessary standard.
Many Nigerians have lost their properties to power surges and other electrical malfunctioning.
We urge the electricity supplier to save this situation by conforming with the rules and regulations of electricity supply.
Adelani Baderinwa
Commissioner for Information and Strategy
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BREAKING: Fire guts Aregbesola’s office in Osogbo
The office of the Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, at the State Secretariat, Osogbo is currently on fire.
Investigations revealed that the fire started from an air conditioner inside the governor’s office, but the governor was not around.
A source said the fire was devastating because the security doors leading to the office could not be opened as the fire raged.
Aregbesola was reportedly not around when the fire started.
According to online publication, Osun Defender, “the fire outbreak occurred at the White House office of Governor Rauf Aregbesola in Abeere on Monday evening.”
Eyewitness account revealed that the inferno started around 4pm.
“The Deputy Governor, Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori, and other top government functionaries were seen at the scene making frantic efforts to arrest the situation,” Osun Defender claimed.
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Osun guber: Aregbesola’s SSG, Adeoti resigns appointment, dumps APC
The Secretary to the Osun State government, SSG, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, who vied for the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship ticket in the just-concluded primary election of the party has resigned his appointment and dumped the party.
The SSG’s actions may not be unconnected with the mode and pattern in which the APC primaries were conducted, as he and many other aspirants had vehemently opposed the direct system of primary election.
The APC had adopted a direct primary election system which enabled the participation of all members of the party in the election that led to the emergence of the Governor’s Chief of Staff, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola as the party’s flag bearer.
Angered by this development, Adeoti, who withdrew from the exercise, proceeded to resign his membership of the APC in the state.
In the resignation letter duly signed by Adeoti, which he addressed to the Ward Chairman of APC, Gidigbo 2, Ward 12, Iwo Local Government Council Area, he said, “with gratitude to Almighty God, I hereby wish to notify you of my decision to resign my membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
“While thanking you and the entire membership of the party for your support while my membership lasted, I wish to reiterate my commitment to the progress of the state in whatever capacity I found myself in the future.”
The letter entitled: “Resignation Of My Membership of The All Progressives Congress (APC) was dated Saturday, July 21, 2018 and was copied the state chairman of the APC.
Meanwhile, reports have it that Adeoti has joined the Alliance Democratic Party and would be contesting the September 22 governorship on its platform.
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Osun 2018: Aregbesola’s Chief of Staff, Oyetola wins APC governorship ticket
Alhaji Isiaka Gboyega Oyetola has been declared winner of the Osun All Progressives Congress governorship primary, ahead of the 22 September election in the state.
In the direct primary which held on Friday, the incumbent Chief of Staff polled 127,017 votes as against his closest rival and Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Yusuf Lasun who scored 21,000. Speaker of the Osun House of Assembly Nojeem Salaam came third.
Oyetola, who is a cousin to the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has been Governor Aregbesola’s chief of staff since 2010.
Announcing the results at about 10:45 pm on Friday at the party’s secretariat in Osogbo Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege said Oyetola, scored 127,017 votes.
Omo-Agege, who represented Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara, the Chairman of the Election committee, said that Mr Lasun Yussuff, Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives came second with 21,975 votes.
” Having won the majority votes, I declared Adegboyega Isiaka Oyetola as the official flag bearer for the Sept. 22 governorship election”, Omo-Agege said.
He commended all other aspirants for displaying maturity during the exercise.
Omo-Agege who described the election as a family contest, said there was no victor and no vanquished.
The direct primary was conducted in 332 wards across the state.
Meanwhile, some aspirants have expressed their dissatisfaction at the process, with some insisting to challenge it in court.
One of the aspirants, who participated in the primary, Mr. Kunle Adegoke, described the exercise as a charade, saying it was skewed to favour the winner.
Adegoke said, “What we experienced in Osun today is not a primary in any way. It was a charade and it was in contravention of basic tenets of democracy.
“I will not dump the party because of the issues. I will remain in the party and correct this anomaly by challenging the process in court.”
He lamented that the party conducted the primary without a verifiable membership database despite using the direct primary method instead of a delegate system.
He also alleged that hoodlums were used to harass and coerce members of the party to vote for Oyetola and that those that resisted were beaten by the thugs.
Among the 17 aspirants who contested for the party’s ticket, several withdrew at the last minute. They were Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, who is the Secretary to State Government, Sen. Babajide Omoworare, representing Osun East at the Senate and Mr Peter Babalola, Chairman of State Civil Service Commission.
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Osun 2018: Aregbesola installs countdown beam on office exit
Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has installed an electronic beam indicating a daily countdown to the November 17 expiration of his tenure.
The beam, installed at the reception hall in the Governor’s Office in Osogbo, indicates on a daily basis, the number of days left for the governor to spend in office.
When the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, visited the governor on Monday, the countdown indicated 191 days.
The beam reads: “191 days Home Run Countdown”, meaning the governor and his executive council (exco) have 191 days to the end of their tenure and to vacate office.
Speaking to newsmen on the countdown beam, Mr Ismail Ademola, the special adviser to the governor on Wealth Creation, said it was meant to bring to the consciousness of every member of the executive that the administration was winding down.
He said it was also meant to spur them to intensify speedy delivery of democracy dividends to the people.
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I would have made Osun an ‘Eldorado’ if not for Jonathan – Gov Aregbesola
Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday, said the only regret he can never erase from his memory as a governor is the fact his administration coincided with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led administration between 2010 and 2015.
Aregbesola said this while responding to questions from journalists at a social interactive programme tagged: “Ogbeni Till Daybreak,” in Osogbo.
According to him, the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan is the worst in the history of Nigeria and the country experienced the most terrible economic life during the period.
“As a matter of fact, PDP superintend is the most irresponsible government in Nigeria and was the most traumatised era in the history of Nigeria.
“If I had the opportunity of working with serious government at the Federal level between 2011 and 2015, it would have been an eldorado,” Aregbesola said.
Speaking on the executed projects in the state, Aregbesola, expressed happiness that his administration has, without doubt, outsmarted its predecessors in office, especially in the area of infrastructural development. He said before the expiration of his tenure, more goodies would be experienced by the people of the state.
On the civil service in the state, Aregbesola remarked that the state accommodates the largest number of pensioners across the South West region, saying: “We inherited a very large civil service and pensioners since the state contributed the largest number of civil servants during Western region, and the Western state.”
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Osun 2018: I have no anointed candidate – Aregbesola
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun says he has no anointed candidate for the forthcoming governorship election in the state.
Aregbesola, who disclosed this while addressing the All Progressives Congress (APC) members on Saturday in Iwo, in Osun West Senatorial District, was reacting to consistent agitations by the people of the zone to produce the next governor of the state.
He said that he was not ready to impose any candidate on the people.
He said that there would be a free, fair and credible primary to pick the party’s flag bearer.
Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had fixed Sept. 22 for the governorship election.
The governor, however, appealed to party members not to allow the outcome of the primary to divide or disturb the peace and progress of the party.
He said the outcome of the primary should rather unite the party to make it stronger and indivisible.
” Every party member is free to support any aspirant of his or her choice.
” But after the party’s primary, any candidate that emerges as the party’s flag bearer should be supported by all to enable the party to win the election convincingly,” the governor said.
The APC Chairman in the state, Mr Adegboyega Famodun, urged the party members to remain strong and united for the election.
Famodun said that with the achievements of Gov. Aregbesola in education, health and infrastructure development, among others, victory was guaranteed for the party.
The Asiwaju of Iwoland, Mr Gbadegesin Adedeji, urged the governor and party members to allow Osun West Senatorial District to produce the next governor of the state.
Adedeji said the zone had been marginalised for long and urged the governor to consider the zone whenever decision on who would be party’s flag bearer was being taken.
“The entire people of Iwo constituency are solidly behind Mr governor.
” And I am using this opportunity to tell you that we want the next governor to be from this zone.
” We have many responsible, cultured, experienced, qualified and well trained people that will not disappoint the state if given the opportunity,” Adedeji said.