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  • Ekiti deputy governor disowns fake social media accounts

    The Deputy Governor of Ekiti, Chief Bisi Egbeyemi, has alerted members of the public on fake social media accounts opened in his name by unknown individuals to defraud innocent Nigerians.

    Egbeyemi said the unscrupulous individuals opened the accounts on Facebook and other social media platforms with his name and picture.

    He said the account was under the pretence of getting employment opportunities and facilitating government contracts for unsuspecting members of the public.

    The deputy governor, in a statement on Friday by his Special Assistant (Media), Odunayo Ogunmola, advised members of the public to disregard such offers of jobs and contracts being promised by fraudsters on the social media.

    Egbeyemi emphasised that anybody who transacted business or enters into negotiations with suspected fraudsters on social media in search of jobs or contracts in Ekiti does so at his or her own risk.

    The deputy governor advised any individual or corporate body who had any suspicious discussion with such faceless individuals to take a step further by informing relevant security agencies or clarify from the appropriate government Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

    He expressed surprise that some individuals could use his good name to defraud innocent Nigerians through the opening and operation of fake social media accounts.

    Egbeyemi said he cherished the good name, image and unblemished integrity he had built over the years and would not engage in any discussion or correspondence on employment or government contracts or having any dealings with anybody on the social media.

  • Supplementary poll: APC in early lead in Ekiti

    Supplementary poll: APC in early lead in Ekiti

    The supplementary election in five Polling units in Ekiti East Local Government Area of Ekiti State is gradually coming to an end as collation of results has commenced.

    The election in Ekiti East constituency 1, was suspended by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on March 9, when the governorship and House of assembly elections were conducted across the states of the federation.

    The electoral battle is between Mr. Juwa Adegbuyi of the All Progressives Congress and the present occupier of the seat and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon Ojo-Ade Fajana.

    See results of four out five polling units below:

    The results of the supplementary election in five polling units in Constituency 1 Ekiti East Local Government:

    Ward 9 unit 9 APC 106, PDP 006,

    Oda Odo Unit APC 132 PDP 002

    Ayaalafe Unit APC 145,; PDP 00

    Odo Uro Unit APC 99 PDP 001

    Details later……

  • Crush, bury PDP completely in Ekiti before 2022, Fayemi charges APC members

    Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi on Friday called on members of the Presidential Campaign Organisation, Ekiti State Chapter and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to ensure the dominance of the party ahead of 2022 gubernatorial election.

    Fayemi said the next task is to ensure that the influence of the rival People Democratic Party (PDP) was reduced to the barest minimum.

    The governor further disclosed that unity of purpose and togetherness that earned the party victory during the just concluded general elections are sustained ahead of the 2022 governorship election in the state.

    A successful outing for the APC in the 2022 governorship election in the state, according to Governor Fayemi would confirm the party’s dominance in Ekiti politics as well as ensure continuation of good governance that would put the state firmly on the path of irreversible development.

    He stated this in Ado-Ekiti on Friday, during a meeting to appreciate members of the Ekiti State Council of the PMB/PYO Presidential Campaign Organisation and leaders of the party, for the success of the Presidental, National and State Assemblies elections in the state.

    Fayemi who lauded the members of the campaign organisation for their demonstrated dedication and commitment to the success of the party, said the credit for the peaceful conduct of the election and timely collation recorded in Ekiti State should go to them.

    He said the unity of purpose demonstrated by both the council and the party leaders during the elections made the party record enviable result.

    The Governor who also conveyed the appreciation of President Buhari to the members, later presented letters of appreciation to the council members.

    He said: “When we inaugurated the Council, I was very clear the job the council would do in conjunction with the party leadership would produce a report that everyone would be proud of and that is exactly what the
    council has done as the results have shown.

    “I remember I was with Mr President a couple of days ago, to discuss some challenges facing our state, and as soon as he came into the meeting, the very first thing he said was Mr 100 percent.

    “That credit really goes to the work that we all did and I think it leads to what happen when we have unity of purpose. We all started on this journey from different points, but ultimately, we came together, we decided
    that we need to give the election all the attention it deserves and everybody pulled in their weight to ensure that we succeeded.

    “However, the outcome of the election tell us some things, that we cannot be complacent about this issue, we still have to work to completely crush the PDP in all our local government areas and state to a point where they are a minute fold rather that a sizeable number that can threaten the consolidation of our gains in the course of next couples of election.

    “The only way to guarantee this effort you have all put in this election is to ensure that the 2022 governorship election in Ekiti goes to APC.

    That’s the message we have to take from this exercise, we would put in every effort to ensure that this happen.”

    Fayemi explained that after the heat of election, there is now need to focus more on governance adding that he would soon appoint more people into positions for ease of governance as well as make them more useful for the
    services of the state.

    “By now, we would have a respite to now focus on governance which is really the reason why our people have put us in charge of the state. Yes, we started that process and we have to invigorate it now, we have to energize by putting more people in positions so that they can be of service to our party and the state.

    “As much as our resources can carry us, we must put our people first in the ‘Project Ekiti’ via empowerment programme or appointments. Not everybody can get appointments, but everybody can have access to feeling that they are also major contributors to the party’s success.”

    Speaking earlier, the Director General of the Campaign Organization, Oluomo Segun Osikolu appreciated Governor Fayemi for giving them opportunity to
    serve in that capacity.

    Osinkolu said party’s successful outing at the polls was as a result of the commitment and hardwork of members of the council as well as party leadership.

    He, however, commended members of the council for their cooperation in the prosecuting the entrusted project without any flaws.

  • Fayose loses ward, polling unit to APC in Ekiti

    Mr Ayodele Fayose, former Governor Ekiti, has lost his ward and polling unit in Afao Ekiti to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Saturday’s house of assembly election.
    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the APC candidate, Hakeem Jamiu, polled 168 votes to defeat Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate, Sunday Omosilade, who garnered 26 votes.
    NAN reports Fayose voted at Unit 016 in St David’s Primary School, Afao Ekiti, Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state.
    Fayose also lost his Afao/Araromi Ward where APC scored 648 votes to beat
    PDP which got 67 votes.
    The APC candidate said that the result was a victory for the people of the area and the party in general.
    He commended the electorate for the trust in him and promised to justify the confidence of the electorate.
    Jamiu said the time had come for all to come together and move the state forward in order to regain its lost glory.
  • Low turnout mars Ekiti Assembly Election

    Low turnout mars Ekiti Assembly Election

    The House of Assembly elections recorded a very low turnout across the 16 Local Governments in Ekiti State.

    The election was contrary to the remarkable turn out of the voters during the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly polls, when voters walked several kilometres to exercise their voting rights.

    In several polling units visited in Ado Ekiti, including Odo Ado, Oke Ori Omi, Atikankan, Oke ila and Eregburu where the aide to Presidential Mohammadu Buhari on political Affairs, Babafemi Ojudu, casts his vote, electorate were seen in few numbers from about 7am on Saturday.

    Meanwhile, accreditation and voting have begun as at 8am with presence of securities operatives noticeable virtually in all the polling units.

    The security personnel were relaxed unlike the presidential election when each unit had four policemen apart from other sister agencies.

    The Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, attributed the low turnout to the fact that there was no governorship election in Ekiti .

    He said this after voting in ward 008 unit 009A at Ereguru Area in Ado Ekiti metropolis.

    Ojudu added that the light security in the state was connected with the peace enjoyed in the state during the presidential poll.

    “There was no incident of arrest or violence in Ekiti in the presidential election. Nobody was arrested and no single gunshot was fired.

    “The strategy must be that more security men were deployed in some other states considered as flashpoints.

    “Again, don’t forget that there was no governorship election here today, so the stake seems low”.

    The former governor of the state and the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Deputy Chairman, Niyi Adebayo, described the poll as peaceful.

    Adebayo voted at his unit in ward A, Iyin Ekiti in Irepodun/Ifelodun local government area of the state.

    Ojo Pelumi said electorates are tired of fake promises from the politicians which they said have been deceiving them since 1999.

     

  • Fayemi’s ex-commissioner escapes assassination, husband’s fingers chopped off

    A former commissioner in Ekiti State, Mrs Funke Owoseeni, narrowly escaped being killed by suspected assassins, on Thursday at her Ijesa Isu, in Ikole local government area of the state.

    The armed men, who allegedly besieged the former commissioner’s residence with dangerous weapons, however, descended on her husband, Mr Paul Owoseeni, when they could not locate their target.

    The attackers dealt with Mr. Owoseeni with machete and other dangerous weapons, chopping off five of his fingers in the process.

    Mrs Owoseeni, who also served as the caretaker chairman of Ikole council and at a time, the women leader of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in the state told journalists that the assailants stormed her house at about 8.30pm and turned off the generating set outside, thereby subjecting the house into total blackout.

    Mrs Owoseeni described the attack as a politically motivated assassination attempt.

    She said while some students resident with her were about restoring light to the building, the bandits swooped on them and started requesting for where she (Mrs Owoseeni) was at that time.

    According to her: “When the light went off, we suspected that the generating set was still running outside and we asked those students living with us to go out and check what was happening.

    “Few minutes later, we heard them saying please save us, save us and my husband who was not with torchlight rushed out to see what was happening. The impression we first heard was a case of electrocution.

    “While my husband rushed out to save the situation, I tried to get my torchlight to be able to see clearly.

    “Shortly, the voices changed and I started hearing thief, thief, thief but my husband was already in their midst with those children. But because I went with torchlight, I was able to see them and I had to rush back inside and hid myself somewhere.

    “They brought my husband inside and started asking ‘where is your wife? We are here for her and not you’. When he didn’t tell them where I was, they started macheting him with dangerous weapons and they did that until they chopped off his fingers and they fled when they saw that he had passed out.”

    Mrs Owoseeni said they immediately took her husband to the General Hospital to stabilize him before he was referred to Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH) for intensive medicare.

    The Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti division, DSP Caleb Ikechukwu, said the case has not been reported at the police headquarters in Ado Ekiti.

  • Panic as residents shut Ekiti monarch out of palace

    Residents of Odo Ora in Ido/Osi Local Government Area, Ekiti State have locked their monarch out of palace.

    The aggrieved residents faulted the procedure that produced the monarch, saying he failed to observe traditional rite, an act they claimed was antithetical to the tradition of the town.

    The kingmakers and other community leaders also alleged that the monarch was not formally installed as traditional procession were circumvented.

    One of the community leaders, Prof. Olawumi Ajaja, disclosed Odo Ora indigenes had nothing against the embattled monarch but the process produced him.

    Ajaja, former Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, said the locals still see the monarch as an Oba-elect alleging that traditional rites were yet to be performed.

    The monarch Obalemo of Odo Ora, Oba Samuel Akinola Adeyemo appealed to the State Government to save him from being deposed from the throne.

    The monarch in his Save My Soul (SOS) petition forwarded to the State Government on the crisis told the Deputy Governor Bisi Egbeyemi that he had been locked out of the palace by suspected hoodlums allegedly mobiliSed by some interest groups in the community.

    Egbeyemi, during a peace meeting in his office on Wednesday, condemned the violence that recently rocked the community.

    According to statement by his Special Assistant (Media) to the Deputy Governor, Odunayo Ogunmola, Egbeyemi warned that the full weight of the law would be visited on individuals fomenting trouble in Odo Ora.

    Egbeyemi said government had to summon the peace meeting following intelligence report from security agencies on possible outbreak of violence over the kingship crisis.

    The deputy governor warned stakeholders in Odo Ora to maintain peace stressing that government won’t depose any monarch in the state.

    He advised Odo Ora indigenes aggrieved with the emergence of Oba Adeyemo as the Obalemo to seek redress in the court of law.

    Egbeyemi further stressed that government would not fold its arms and allow the situation to degenerate into anarchy adding that anybody caught fomenting trouble would be arrested and prosecuted.

    The deputy governor urged parties in the crisis to report back in his office on February 21 for a follow-up peace parley to resolve the impasse.

  • I inherited over N155.79b debt from Fayose – Fayemi

    Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has expressed concern over the state’s debt profile under the immediate past Ayodele Fayose administration.

    The governor said his predecessor left an humongous debt profile of N155,791,785,214 as at October 16, before he assumed office.

    Fayemi made the allegations in his “State of the State” address marking his administration’s first 100 days in office on the floor of the House of Assembly in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.

    He said the debt profile figures, which encompass the accounts of the state from October 2014 to last October, were arrived at after engaging the services of an external auditing firm, the Price WaterHouse Cooper, to thoroughly audit the state’s books.

    The breakdown of the debt profile, the governor said, included loan, N57,694 billion; salary arrears, N16,777 billion; outstanding leave bonus, N4,402 billion; outstanding (National Youth Service Corps) Corpers’ allowance, N28,883 million; outstanding subvention, N4,770 billion; pension and gratuity arrears, N39,775 billion and outstanding contractors claims, N28,575 billion.

    Others include outstanding furniture allowance, N470,266 million; outstanding severance allowance, N586,144 million; monetised vehicle arrears, N101,243 million; outstanding warrants, N386,777 billion; outstanding (Federal Inland Revenue Service) FIRS obligation, N184,215 million; traditional rulers’ arrears, N150,214 million; judgment debts, N95,048 million and other outstanding liabilities, N1,792 billion.

    Fayemi noted that though his administration had tried to distance itself from political witch- hunt and media trials, but “the fact that the present is the product of the past is incontrovertible”.
    He added: “We must examine our tortuous path with a view to charting a new path to economic recovery and value restoration.”

    Fayemi said his administration inherited a state that was in chaos and a people severely disoriented under a suppressive government that allegedly raised and promoted deceit into a stagecraft.

    “The last 100 days have clearly shown to us, in a very practical manner, that with clarity of vision, the resolve to push through and the unflinching support of the people, there are endless possibilities in our capacities to steer our state on the path of progress.

    “Despite the meagre resources at our disposal, we are meticulously delivering on our promises to the people through our various short, medium and long-term socio-economic intervention programmes.

    “We must examine our tortuous path with a view to charting a new course for a prosperous destination, not only for us but also for our unborn children,” he said.

     

  • Ekiti killer truck not ours – Dangote

    Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) has denied the ownership of the truck that caused the accident at Iworoko Ekiti.

    Fifteen people allegedly died in the accident on Saturday night.

    In a statement on Sunday, the management of Dangote Industries Limited frowned at what it called the misleading and unverified report carried by an online medium that a Dangote truck was responsible for the accident.

    The company wondered why some journalists rushed to the press without verifying information at their disposal, thereby reporting falsehood.

    It said the truck does not belong to Dangote, as reported by the medium.

    The statement said: “While we commiserate with the families of the deceased and pray for God’s strength to bear the loss of their loved ones, it is important to state that the affected truck does not belong to our company.

    “DIL does not import or produce rice for the market or for any individual or entity. Our trucks are also not meant to carry third party goods as we have consistently requested the public to report any such illegal action by our drivers to us for monetary rewards.”

    The management of DIL recently issued an appeal to the public to monitor and report recklessness and illegal haulage of contraband by any of its truck drivers with a cash reward of N250, 000 per report.

    The company, in a paid advertisement in electronic and print media, warned those “illegally transporting unauthorised goods with the company’s trucks” to desist from such.

    It said the drivers and the owner of such goods would be arrested and prosecuted.

    To clarify its position, the management listed its products and the goods the over 10,000 trucks operating across the country and neighbouring West African countries could convey.

    It said: “Dangote trucks are permitted to transport only the following materials: Dangote Cement Plc – Dangote cement, limestone, high grade gypsum and coal; Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc – Dangote sugar; NASCON Allied Industries Plc – Dangote salt and DanQ seasoning; Agrosacks Industries Limited – Bags; Dangote Flour Mills Plc – Dangote wheat, flour and Danvita.”

     

  • Gunmen kidnap another senior Ekiti LG official, driver

    A Director of Administration in Gbonyin Local Government Area in Ekiti State, Mr. David Jejelowo and his driver have been kidnapped by a group of unidentified gunmen and whisked away to unknown destination.

    Jejelowo was kidnapped on Monday evening along Ado-Ijan road while returning from Ode Ekiti, the local government headquarters to Ado Ekiti capital city.

    The incident occurred few days after an accountant with Emure local government, Mr Abayomi Ajayi was killed and two other officers of the Emure local government were kidnapped along Ise-Ikere road.

    Jejelowo was returning to Ado Ekiti around 7.15pm with his official car when he was abducted on the way.

    The Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti Command, Mr. Caleb Ikechukwu, confirmed the incident, saying the driver had been released.

    “We confirmed the kidnap incident on Monday. It happened along Ado-Ijan road and it involved the Director of Administration of Gbonyin local government and his driver.

    “But the driver has been released, we can confirm that to you. We are monitoring the situation and our men are working assiduously to ensure that the man is rescued from the hideout.

    “The driver has been giving us useful information that we are going to work on to facilitate the release”, he said.

    Ikechukwu added that the command is strategising on the way to tame the pillaging kidnappers, who were fond of abducting men of affluence with the sinister intention to collect ransom from them.

    The spokesman charged the members of the public to give sensitive and veracious information that would help in tracking down these miscreants.