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  • Group cautions Ajimobi over truce with Ladoja

    A Socio – Cultural Group, Oyo Patriotic Front (OPF) has commended the reported truce initiative between Governor Abiola Ajimobi and Senator Rashidi Ladoja being brokered by the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes (CCII).

    The group however cautioned Governor Ajimobi not to get swayed by the truce with a resumption of his benevolence towards Senator Ladoja emphasising that based on previous experiences, the Accord Party leader will never reciprocate Ajimobi’s good gestures towards him but will continue his campaign of calumny to bring down Ajimobi’s government with lies untruths and negative comments warning that it is better to keep one’s avowed enemy at arms length.

    The Group’s chairman, Chief Jare Adepoju urged Governor Ajimobi to consider the antecedents of Senator Ladoja, who has always repaid governor Ajimobi’s gestures with ignoble acts since 2011, noting that Senator Ladoja is on the path to political oblivion and does not possess much political currency. He is therefore totally undeserving of any consideration for a truce.

    According to him, “the peace move by the CCII to resolve the entire imbroglio in Ibadan and Oyo State as a whole is commendable. However, we want to caution Governor Ajimobi not to get carried away. He should remember that his gestures in the past were repaid ungraciously. Through Governor Ajimobi’s magnanimity and benevolence, the Accord Party leader’s family member and loyalists were part of Ajimobi’s government between 2011 and 2013, they were part and parcel of the Executive council where major decisions affecting the state were taken and despite this, all the projects executed by the present administration were cynically viewed and condemned by the Accord party chieftain.”

    He said that Senator Ladoja’s fruitless efforts and forlorn dreams to govern Oyo State again may have had an adverse effect on him, saying that the former governor’s recent utterances are bordering on frustration especially the statement on a private radio interview in Ibadan that the Oyo State Housing Corporation gave him a land and not Governor Ajimobi.

    Adepoju explained that any sane mind will know that the Oyo State Housing Corporation cannot give land free of charge to to anybody without the consent of the governor, noting that as a former governor, he should know better, wondering how he managed to govern a state without a comprehensive appreciation of the statutory and executive powers of a governor.

    He added that the former governor’s recent urge that the police should probe the state government over the violent attack on Olubadan should not be taken seriously but seen as a diversionary attempt from the real issues, stating that the general public knows that Ajimobi’s name is synonymous with peace while Ladoja’s name is synonymous with violence.

    The Chairman regretted that the governor whose tenure was riddled with violence could be pointing accusing fingers at the government that has been preaching and practicing the sustainability of peace, stressing that the traces of the violence that trailed the primary elections of Accord Party prior to 2015 general elections is a pointer to his personality.

    Adepoju appealed to the general public to consider the sustainability of peace in the state as a collective responsibility adding “the achievements of Ajimobi’s administration should be seen as our collective patrimony and guarded jealously.”

  • Ajimobi warns traders against street trading

    Ajimobi warns traders against street trading

    Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has warned that traders who prefer to display and sell their wares by the roadsides instead of moving into the neighbourhood market stalls freely allocated to them by the state government will soon lose them.

    Ajimobi while restating the government’s decision against street trading during an unscheduled visit to the neighbourhood market at the Scout Camp, Molete, Ibadan, on Thursday lamented the loss of lives and property attributed to street trading in some parts of the state.

    The governor enjoined the traders to join hands with the government in its determination to end the practice once and for all.

    The market was built and inaugurated in 2013 by the Ajimobi-led administration, with over 3000 spaces and lock-up shops, which were allocated to traders free of charge.

    Ajimobi had by then said that the initiative was meant to create a safety net for traders who could not afford to rent a shop and particularly as part of the administration’s long-term plan to eradicate street trading.

    For the market to be self-sustaining in the area of cleaning and security, the governor advised the traders to meet and decide on the modality for the collection of tokens as levies for its development.

    “I’m appealing to you to hold on to the spaces allocated to you in this market. Those who were allocated spaces here, but decided to trade by the road will soon lose their allocation. We have preached and sensitized our people enough. We say no more to street trading.

    “It’s unimaginable that some traders that were allocated spaces in this market free of charge along with you have decided to abandon them and move to the roadsides. In fact, we shall revoke their allocation. We shall start to enforce the law against street trading.

    “There is nowhere in the whole of this country where government constructed this kind of modern market without collecting money from those allocated spaces. Henceforth, you should find a way of levying yourselves so as to have the financial strength to do things like cleaning of the environment and maintenance of security.”

    He, therefore, called on the leadership of the market to urgently come up with an affordable payment scheme for the sake of keeping the market environment safe and clean.

    Babaloja of the market, Mr. Kehinde Tewogbade lauded the initiative of the Ajimobi-led administration on the construction the market, which, he said, was completed within the promised six months.

    Tewogbade said his members would be delighted if the government could go ahead and enforce the laws against street trading, adding that only by strict regulation and enforcement could ensure compliance occur.

    “Ajimobi has always supported us. He promised to construct and complete the market within six months and that came to pass.

    “We will not forget the N20million revolving loan he approved and gave us in 2013. All these are attributes of a good leader that cares for the downtrodden.

    “I can say it openly that the leadership of this market is in agreement with the decision of the governor to enforce the law against those that have continued to trade by the roadside; they deserve it”, he said.

  • May Day: We’ll clear 4months salary arrears, Ajimobi assures Oyo workers

    Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has promised to spare no effort in ensuring that the state clears the four months outstanding salaries of workers in the state.

    He made the disclosure in a statement signed by his Special Adviser, Communication and Strategy, Mr Yomi Layinka on Sunday, ahead of the commemoration of 2017 Workers’ Day celebration.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the state owes the workers four months salaries, having cleared the backlog till December 2016.

    Ajimobi urged the workers to continue to put in their best and key into the state government’s reform agenda aimed at enhancing productivity.

    “I congratulate the entire workforce in the state, including those in the private and informal sectors.

    “This year’s workers day has provided another opportunity for you all to take stock and assess your performance.

    “I can say without any equivocation that workers in the state are among the very best you can find anywhere in the country.

    “But, for the few yet to embrace the new order of hard work, accountability, dedication and commitment, I urge you join the trend,” he said.

    He said that the government was exploring many opportunities to enhance the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of the state, promising that no effort would be spared to clear the four months salary arrears.

    “No doubt, times are hard because of the pervading poor state of the economy.

    “I feel your pains and I’m optimistic that we shall soon sing a new song of prosperity and abundance. May none of you be missing by that time,.” he said.

    Ajimobi prayed for a hazard-free 2017 for workers in the state as the year enters the second quarter, and that God would give them good health to celebrate more workers’ days to come.

     

     

     

     

  • Ajimobi ruling Oyo with impunity, despotism – Shittu

    Ajimobi ruling Oyo with impunity, despotism – Shittu

    …Says the governor does not invite him for stakeholders meeting

    Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu, has said that the Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi was ruling the state with impunity and dictatorial tendencies.

    The minister stated this while featuring on a programme on television at the weekend.

    The enraged minister said: “This impunity must stop; it must be checkmated at all costs.”

    Shittu expressed concerns over Ajimobi’s “continued appointment of handpicked people to serve as caretaker chairmen,” saying it must be roundly condemned.

    He noted that the refusal of the governor to conduct local government election “is not only a disservice to the people of the state, but also a disservice to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

    According to him, “Facts should be said. The stakeholders are frustrated by the way the executive has been treating them.

    “The governor does not even deem it fit to invite me to the stakeholders meeting; this issue of impunity must be checkmated”.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Ajimobi had last Friday in Ibadan inaugurated caretaker chairmen for the 55 local governments and local council development areas in the state.

    He also assured people of the state that elections into the 33 local governments and 35 local council development areas (LCDAs) would be held as soon as the suit against the election was settled.

    A Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice John Tsoho, had in January 2017 ordered the Oyo State Independent Election Commission (OYSIEC) not to proceed with its plan to conduct the election earlier slated for February 11.

    The order was sequel to a motion ex-parte filed on behalf of 16 Baales from Oyo Federal Constituency by their lawyer, Mr Ahmed Raji, SAN, pursuant to the creation of 35 LCDAs in the state.

     

  • APC won’t rig Feb. 11 LG election in Oyo State, Ajimobi assures

    Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not rig the Feb. 11 Local Government election in the state.

    Ajimobi stated this on Friday at the Empowerment Programme of Sen. Monsurat Sunmonu held at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan.

    ‘’We won’t rig the local government election. We must all come together as a party to win the election.

    ‘’We must all sit down together in selecting the best candidates for the elections, so that we don’t lose the election,’’ he said.

    The governor opined that the appropriate method for the party to pick its candidate was by consensus, where all delegates would come together and pick the candidates.

    While describing the direct primaries in the electoral process as cumbersome, Ajimobi said that the party can also go for indirect primaries if consensus would not work.

    ‘’Our best option in APC is consensus or the indirect primaries.

    We can only continue winning elections if there is unity among our members,’’ he said.

    The governor called on members to welcome all new members defecting to the APC, and urged them to imbibe the art of forgiving one another.

    According to him, the local government election will determine if APC is still strong and formidable in the state.

    Ajimobi said that he remained the leader of APC in the state, and urged those who did not believe in his leadership to establish their own party.

    He said that that there were no factions in the APC in Oyo State, saying those championing Sen. Abiola Ajimobi Campaign Organisation (SENACO) and Lamidi Adesina Loyalist (LAMIST) are mischievous.

    ‘’Let me tell you that there is nothing like SENACO and LAMIST in Oyo State again, they are all dead. I remain the leader of the party in the state’’, he said.