President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met with elders and leaders of thought from Ogun State.
The meeting started around 3.04pm at the Council Chamber of the State House, Abuja.
Those at the meeting include the Governor Dapo Abiodun, former governors, Olusegun Osoba and Gbenga Daniel.
Also at the meeting are Segun Awolowo, traditional rulers and members of the National Assembly from the state and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha.
The meeting was still in progress at the time of filing this report.
Details shortly…
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BREAKING: Buhari meets with Abiodun, Osoba, Daniel, others in Aso Rock
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Photos: Osoba, Ogun gov elect, deputy present Certificates of Return to Buhari in Aso Rock
Ogun State Governor-Elect, Dapo Abiodun; and Deputy Governor-Elect, Mrs. Noimot Salako-Oyedele, have presented their Certificates of Return to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Accompanied by a former Governor of the State, Olusegun Osoba, the incoming governor and deputy met Buhari at the State House, Abuja, on Friday.
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I regret spending all my money on Amosun to emerge Ogun gov – Osoba
A leader of the All Progressives Congress and former governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, has said he regretted working for the emergence of the incumbent Ogun governor, Ibikunle Amosun, in 2011.
Osoba said this on Friday while addressing leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ogun State Chapter, during a visit of the governorship candidate of the APC in the state, Dapo Abiodun, to the secretariat of the union in Abeokuta, the state capital.
Osoba said he was proud to say that he spent all the money that he had to make Amosun governor in 2011 on the platform of the Action Congress.
He said, “I spent all the money that I had on me to make him governor.
“He requested for four commissioner nominees from me and I took the list to him in his office. Thank God, Leke Adewolu (former Commissioner for Special Duties), was on seat that day.
“The only regret I had was that I gave him the list containing the four names and he tore it in my presence. He then asked me to write a fresh one and bring it to him. I looked stupid. That was my only regret.”
Osoba however, said he is optimistic Abiodun would succeed Amosun as next governor of the state during next month’s general elections.
Osoba said he wished to stand as a guarantor for Abiodun before the NLC, pledging that he would not maltreat workers in the state if elected into office.
He said, “We will set up a committee that will comprise those who have served in various capacities in the state government, look at the monthly internal generated revenue, how much are being owed and other things.
“So, we will engage you, labour unions, so that when Abiodun is sworn in on May 29, he would have the record and hit the ground running.”
In his remarks, Abiodun said that he would work closely with the NLC in the state once elected into office.
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2019: Oshiomhole, Tinubu, Osoba behind political crises in Ogun – Amosun
Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State, on Monday, accused the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, a national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and former governor of the state, Aremo Olusegun Osoba of allegedly masterminding the political chaos in the state.
The governor said the aforementioned party leaders are plotting to foist Dapo Abiodun on the party in the state, as its governorship candidate in the 2019 election.
Amosun alleged that the trio of Oshiomhole, Tinubu and Osoba wrote a fake result showing Abiodun as the winner of the party’s primary election and thus its governorship candidate.
He had alleged that the duo of Tinubu and Osoba had played roles in what he termed ‘electoral fraud’, adding that their silence over the matter smacked of complicity.
The governor made the allegation in an interview shortly after swearing-in the new Chief Judge of the state, Mosunmola Dipeolu.
The event held at the Governor’s office Chamber in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
He said, “The President already knows there was no election in Ogun State. He knows that they just went to Lagos, wrote all results and that what they did is fraud.
“If the National Working Committee or the National Chairman said there was an election in Ogun State, it’s all fraud. That is what I said.”
The governor insisted that the National Working Committee panel of the party sent to the state didn’t conduct a genuine primary election. He argued that the only authentic primary was the one which produced Adekunle Akinlade as governorship candidate.
He added, “Mr President already knows, there was no election in Ogun State, other than the one we held.
“The issue of Chief Osoba and Asiwaju and co, what we said was that there was a definite silence from their end, and silence means consent. You can record me and publish it in your newspapers.
“We have not heard one word from any of them. Was there any election in Ogun State? Yes or No? They should come out.
“People at this level should be courageous enough to take a position, to come out, to come and tell us whether there was an election.
“The one governorship election that we had, there was live telecast, people even witnessed it.” -
Botched primary: Tinubu, Osoba, others hold secret talks with Ekiti APC aspirants
Sequel to the postponement of the Ekiti governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held on Saturday due to alleged irregularities and violence, the National leader of the party, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor of Ogun State, Aremo Segun Osoba and a select group of APC leaders from the South West are holding a secret meeting at the Lagos State Government Lodge Annex in Abuja.
The meeting which started about an hour ago, was part of efforts to find a common ground on the way forward after the botched Ekiti State APC governorship primaries.
According to a report by The Punch, the meeting has in attendance most of the contestants.
A source privy to the meeting said the meeting which was scheduled for 2:00 pm was shifted to 4:00 pm because some of those expected for the meeting were held up at the Akure Airport.
This is even as the party has announced Friday as the new date for the conclusion of the botched exercise.
National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi told reporters that the party’s National Working Committee took the decision after considering the report of its panel sent to conduct the primaries.
Details later…
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Ekiti, Osun 2018: Don’t underrate Fayose, Osoba tells APC
A former governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, has warned the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and members of the party not to underestimate the clouts of Governor Ayodele Fayose in the coming gubernatorial election in both Ekiti and Osun States.
Osoba noted that the results of the Ekiti and Osun elections in 2018 will determine the outcome of the elections in Ogun and Oyo states in 2019.
He also warned the party not to underestimate the threat of the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, who had vowed that the Peoples Democratic Party would trounce the APC in the governorship election holding next year.
He advised them to work in unison to win the elections, even as he declared that the Ogun State chapter of the party had not zoned the governorship slot in 2019 to any senatorial district.
The APC party leader spoke on Wednesday while addressing party leaders and supporters in his Ibara Government Reservation Area, Abeokuta residence.
He said no single individual within the party, no matter had highly placed, could determine where the next governor of the state would come from.
The former governor noted that the APC needed to embrace internal democracy and shun all manner of imposition to strengthen its chances in the coming elections.
Osoba said some ex-governors that installed ‘anointed candidates’ became sworn enemies with them months after.
He stressed that Ogun East Senatorial District was equally eligible to contest the governorship seat just as the Yewa-Awori people of Ogun West.
“Don’t let us underestimate Fayose. You must fight him. We cannot afford to play with Osun either. Those two states are important. If we can do clear primaries in these two states and APC wins, then whatever happen in Ekiti and Osun must happen in Oyo and Ogun when it gets to our turn to deliver.
“As a party, we have not zoned the governorship seat. There was nothing like zoning of offices in the past. We give opportunity to anyone to aspire, but we have always used maturity to settle it among us. That is unwritten, it is a convention. It is not the rule and nobody will go against the agreement.
“Now, so many things have divided us. The Ijebu now come together to be claiming the Ijebu agenda. We must leave the field open. We must examine the Yewa and Ijebu agenda,” he said.
Osoba called for cohesion and unity, warning that it would be counterproductive for anyone to set up structure outside the party.