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  • Four South-West governors visit ailing Akeredolu in Ibadan

    Four South-West governors visit ailing Akeredolu in Ibadan

    Four South-west Governors on Tuesday morning  paid a courtesy visit on ailing Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu who has been recuperating in his Ibadan residence, Oyo State, since he returned to Nigeria from abroad where he had gone for medical treatment.

    While Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State was absent, due to his visit to Kogi state, the visiting governors are Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State and Abiodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State and they  were hosted on Tuesday by Governor Makinde of Oyo State in his office at Agodi, Ibadan.

    Akeredolu has remained in Ibadan since he returned from his medical trip to Germany.

    After a private meeting at the Governor’s Office, they proceeded to the residence of Governor Akeredolu at Jericho Ibadan.

  • Why Akeredolu is governing Ondo from Oyo state – Aide

    Why Akeredolu is governing Ondo from Oyo state – Aide

    The Special Adviser on Special Duty and Strategy to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, Doyin Odebowale, has revealed that his principal is governing Ondo state fron Ibadan the Oyo state capital.

    According to Odebowale, his principal chose to work from Ibadan and not Akure due to accomodation challenges.

    Odebowale made this known  in an interview with Channels Television on Tuesday.

    Akeredolu has been absent from the state since his return from a medical vacation abroad.

    The Ondo leader has been working from Ibadan, Oyo State and the move has caused ripples within the state, with the youths of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday, issuing an ultimatum to the governor to return.

    Shedding more lights, Odebowale said due to Governor Akeredolu‘s state of health, he needed a better apartment to carry out his task of marshalling the affairs of the South-West state.

    “Aketi came back in September. Where he used to stay – the Presidential Lodge built for the visiting president at that time Olusegun Obasanjo – is a two-bedroom apartment,” he said on the show.

    “Now, he is back. He cannot occupy that place again. The Old Governor’s Office – the Governor’s Lodge built by the previous administration is now the office of the investment outlet called the ODIPA. That’s the office,” the governor’s aide added.

    “So, the governor has been managing a two-bedroom apartment for six years. But his current state of health would not permit him to pretend that all is well.

    “He would need all the things for him to recover properly. That’s why the new place that is being arranged for him is almost completed.

    “When they say they want to see Aketi, do they want to see him at the site so that he would be carrying cement or following workmen?

    “What exactly? The civil servants have been paid all their salaries. Aketi has been signing laws since he came back,” he maintained.

  • Ondo state Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu loses mother

    Ondo state Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu loses mother

    The death has been announced of Lady Evangelist Grace Akeredolu.

    Grace Akeredolu is the mother of the Ondo state Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.

    She died peacefully in her sleep in the early hours of Thursday.

    She was aged 90.

    Her death was confirmed by Chief press Secretary to the Governor of Ondo state, Richard Olatunde through a statement made available to pressmen.

    The statement reads in part “She is survived by her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and other family members.

    “Further announcements will be made by the family in due course,” he stated.

     

  • LAWAN: APC Chairman made a pronouncement beyond his competence- Akeredolu

    Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has said the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, made a pronouncement beyond his competence, by announcing the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, as APC presidential consensus candidate.

     

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that on Monday, the APC national chairman announced Lawan as the consensus candidate for the presidential ticket, but the party’s national working committee (NWC) led by Sulaiman Argungu, the national organizing secretary, said it would align with APC governors on power shift to the south.

     

    Reacting to Adamu’s choice in a statement issued on Monday, Akeredolu said the decision made by the national chairman is beyond his competence.

     

    He said the chairman’s choice runs contrary to that of the majority in the party, and as such it is dangerous.

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    Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu

     

    In his words: “My attention has just been drawn to the expensive joke purportedly enacted by the national chairman of APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu. The speculation is rife that the chairman took a flight of fancy and decided to make a pronouncement beyond his competence.”

     

    “He has, allegedly, made public his preferred choice as the candidate of the APC for the office of the president in the next general elections. This alleged pronouncement runs contrary to the position of the majority of northern governors in APC and their counterparts in the south.

     

    “Our agreement is unanimous on this issue. The office of the president should be contested for by qualified persons from the southern part of the country if the move to get a consensus candidate fails. There has been no shift from this settled issue.

     

    “Let it be known that the chairman or anyone who holds a contrary opinion does so at a personal level. He is at best embarking on a frolic which reasonable people will consider dangerous. We are grieving but have not forgotten that power must shift to the south. On this, we stand.”

  • No equivocation, it is turn of the south to produce Nigeria’s next president – Akeredolu

    Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) of Ondo  State says it is the turn of southern Nigeria to produce the next president.

    He stated against the backdrop of heightened preparations for the June 6 APC National Convention to select the party’s standard bearer.

    In the statement posted on his social media handle on Thursday, the Governor opined that APC stakeholders must not keep party men and women guessing about the position of the leadership of the party.

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    “This is the time to weigh in and take control of the process. No statement must suggest, even remotely, that the party harbours certain sentiments which may predispose it to consider throwing the contest open. This is certainly not the time for equivocation.”

    His post warned the All Progressives Congress against giving its presidential ticket to a northern candidate the way the opposition PDP has done by fielding Atiku Abubakar.

    Akeredolu charged the party to work hard to retain power by rotating the Presidency to the South.

    He said, “APC must work to retain power. We must rotate power to retain power!!! Rotate to the South. …Shikena.”

    Akeredolu had also in May warned the All Progressives Congress against zoning the 2023 presidential slot to the northern part of the country, saying that would lead to a crisis.

    According to him, it is the turn of the southern part of the country to produce the next president.

    Akeredolu said the agreement reached when APC micro-zoned party’s offices during its National Convention must be adhered to.

    “Our party, the All Progressives Congress, has started the process which will eventually culminate in the presentation of elected political leaders, who must steer the affairs of the country for another term. We have been able to hold the party’s Convention successfully.

    “New officers of the party have emerged in a process that is widely acknowledged as rancour-free. The level of understanding and maturity displayed by all and sundry has been commendable. Known adversaries have been forced to accept the emerging fact that our party is formidable and ready for the next general elections.

    “The current socio-economic crises are surmountable. It is commendable that the Government is addressing these issues without drama. The Federal Government and leadership of our great party will come out stronger. We cannot, therefore, afford any internal bickering which holds the potential promise of causing distrust and militating against cohesion, harmony and the zeal to achieve set objectives.

    “The current democratic dispensation is anchored on the unwritten convention driven by a principle of Equity.

    “Political expediency dictates, more appealingly, that while adhering to the spirit and letters of the laws guiding conduct of elections and succession to political offices, we must do nothing which is capable of tilting the delicate balance against the established arrangement which guarantees peace and promotes trust.

    “Our party just elected officers on the established principle of giving every part of the country an important stake in the political calculus. The focus has now shifted to the process which will culminate in the participation of our party in the general elections scheduled for next year.

    “All lovers of peace and freedom must do everything to eschew tendencies which may predispose them to taking decisions which promote distrust and lead to a crisis, the end of which nobody may be able to predict.

    “The leadership of the party ensured that the principle of rotational representation guided its decision at the just-concluded Convention. The party Chairmanship position has gone to the North. All other offices have been filled on this understanding.

    “This is the time the leaders of the party must make a categorical statement, devoid of equivocation, on the pattern of succession.

    “The party Executive Committee has fixed a fee for the purchase of the nomination form for the office. It is expected, fervently, that it will proceed to complete the process by limiting the propensities for disagreement to a region for possible micro-management. It is very expedient that we avoid self-inflicted crises before the general elections.

    “It is the turn of the Southern part of the country to produce the next President. The party leadership should have no difficulty in making pronouncements on this very important issue, just as it has fixed various fees for the purchase of forms.

    “This must be done without delay. The principle of Federal Character is enshrined in the 1999 Constitution, as amended. It will be disingenuous for anyone to argue against rotation at this period.”

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu are jostling for presidency next year.

    Other APC presidential aspirants are the Senate President Ahmad Lawan and former ministers Rotimi Amaechi, Ogbonnaya Onu, Godswill Akpabio, and Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba.
    Serving governors who are also aspiring to be president are Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Yahaya Bello (Kogi), Dave Umahi (Ebonyi), Ben Ayade (Cross River) and Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa).

    Also interested are former Senate President Ken Nnamani, former House of Representatives Speaker, Dimeji Bankole, and serving senators Ibikunle Amosun, Ajayi Boroffice, and Rochas Okorocha.

    President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in 2011, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Uju Ken-Ohanenye, Nicholas Felix, Ahmad Rufai Sani, Tein Jack-Rich, Ikeobasi Mokelu are also in the presidential race.

  • Ondo Gov, Akeredolu calls on Emefiele to quit CBN job

    Ondo Gov, Akeredolu calls on Emefiele to quit CBN job

    Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu SAN, has called on the Governor of the Central Bank, Mr Godwin Emefiele, to quit his job, saying “he cannot combine partisan politics with the very delicate assignment of his office”.

     

    Adding: “Should he refuse to quit, it becomes incumbent on the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to remove him forthwith. This is a joke taken too far.”

     

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Emefiele obtained the presidential nomination form of All Progressives Congress (APC).

     

    Calling on the President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the CBN Governor, Akeredolu, in a statement he signed on Friday, said Emefiele’s purported action, “if unchecked timeously portends great danger to the fragile economy of the country.”

     

    The governor said, “It is incontrovertible that Mr Emefiele enjoys a constitutionally protected right to belong to any group or association and participate fully, just as any Nigerian. It is, however, difficult to imagine that a person who occupies the exalted and sensitive office of the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria will be this brazen in actualizing his ambition.

     

    “There is no gain asserting the obvious. The combined effect of the Public Service Rules, CBN Act and the 1999 Constitution, as amended, exposes not only the oddity inherent in this brash exercise of presumed right to associate. It also confirms the illegality of the act should he proceed to submit the forms while occupying the seat as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.”

     

    Similarly, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Debo Ologunagba, noted that the CBN Act clearly stated that the governor and deputy governors of the bank must be fully dedicated to their jobs.

     

    Ologunagba berated the ruling APC and the President for promoting impunity and refusing to force Emefiele to leave office.

     

    He added, “The CBN governor is governed by the CBN Act. Section 9 is unambiguously clear about what the CBN governor and deputies should do and it says they shall devote the whole of their time to the service of the bank and they will not engage in any other vocation.

     

    “Now, his action is completely in contravention of that Act and that amounts to gross misconduct and that qualifies him to be removed from office in line with Section 11 of the Act. This is completely irresponsible and at variance with our laws.”

     

    The PDP spokesman said it was unfortunate that the CBN governor, who ought to be focused on the nation’s monetary policy, had the time to engage in partisan politics, adding that it was time for Nigerians to vote in the PDP to restore order.