Architect Bashiru Lawal Appointed as Director General of the Senator Olufemi Lanlehin Campaign Organization, this was made known in a press release by ADC. Oyo State ADC governorship candidate, Senator Olufemi Lanlehin (SOLAN), has ratified the appointment of Architect Bashiru Lawal as Director General of the Senator Olufemi Lanlehin Campaign Organization (SOLANCO). Architect Lawal, a veteran politician and erstwhile State Chairman of Accord for nearly six years, is expected to coordinate the governorship campaign activities of Senator Olufemi Lanlehin (SOLAN) under the banner of the ADC. Architect Lawal, who had his primary and secondary education in Ghana, and tertiary education at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, was a three time elected Chairman, Saki West Local Government, a grassroots politician and mobiliser of repute, and one of those who stood firmly by former governor Ladoja, on the side of truth and history, in the defence of democracy during the 2006 illegal ...

The Presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, met former governor Rashidi Ladoja at his Ondo Street, Bodija residence, in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital. OYO INSIGHT recalled that Ladoja was governor under PDP between 2003 and 2007. Though details of the meeting is still sketchy as at press time, Atiku, who was in town for the Southwest rally of the party ahead of 2019 elections, visited him to solicit support for his ambition. The visit came few minutes after Ladoja defected from the African Democratic Congress, ADC, to the Zenith Labour Party, ZLP. Kindly call 08165603597 for Adverts, Sponsorship and summoning us to cover Newsworthy events. Click  here  to WhatsApp Us.

Lagos East Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Sikiru Osinowo has promised to donate his entire salaries for four years to the party, women and youths within his Senatorials district, should he wins the 2019 general elections. Osinowo, a fourth-term lawmaker in the Lagos State House of Assembly made the pledge at a Reconciliation Stakeholders meeting organised by party leaders in the Lagos East Senatorial District recently. He added that apart from his salaries for four years, he would use the office to bring more dividends of democracy to the people especially the women, youths and children in the constituency as well as organise welfare packages that would make life more meaningful for them. Osinowo, representing Kosofe constituency II at the Assembly, commended leaders and members of the party for their support and commended his rivals in the party primaries. “I am not the best, the most educated or intelligent, but everything was divinely plan...

Former Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, has described the statement credited to Governor Kayode Fayemi that his administration was an error as a mere political statement that shouldn’t be taken serious. Fayose, who reacted through his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, said Ekiti people knew that his administrations, both the first and second, were never an error, rather they brought unparalleled blessings and development to the state. Adelusi said: We are not surprised by what Governor Fayemi said because in the first instance going by Nigeria and the kind of politics being played, he cannot praise the good works of Fayose and besides that, as a new governor he must say something to impress the people no matter how ridiculous it may be. “If Fayemi said the administration of Fayose is an error, then the road projects, the High Court Complex, the Adunni Olayinka Women Development Centre, the Governor overnor’s Office, the Ministry of Finance building, the flyove...

The immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has insisted that his administration did not commit the State to any financial institution in form of bonds and commercial loans, describing the claim by Governor Kayode Fayemi that the State was indebted to the tune of N170 billion as false and “a way of preparing grounds for his impending failure just as he did when he assumed office in 2010.” Fayose’s Media Aide, Lere Olayinka, said in a statement issued on Wednesday that Ekiti State indebtedness was under N60 billion and that the debt was either directly incurred during Fayemi’s first tenure or as a result of the loans restructuring done at the instance of the Federal Government and the Federal Economic Council. He gave the breakdown as follows: Commercial Bank Loan, N2,087,788,065.28; CBN Grant for Water Project, N163,450,000; Excess Crude Account Backed Loan, N9,545,173,472.78; Bailout, N9,083,761,215.40; FGN Bonds, N18,226,699,707.18; State Bonds, N3,484,469,345...

Ibikunle Amosun, governor of Ogun state, says he was under “enormous pressure” to defect from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the outcome of the primary elections in the state. Amosun was among the APC governors who locked horns with the national working committee (NWC) of the ruling party over the primaries for 2019 polls. Abiodun Akinlade, the governor’s preferred choice as successor, did not make the list of candidates that the NWC certified for 2019. This had irked Amosun who backed a parallel primary organised by the state chapter of the party but the NWC insisted on the choice of Dapo Abiodun as governorship candidate of the state for 2019. The governor held several meetings with President Muhammadu Buhari but that did not change the situation. There were reports that Amosun finalised his plans to defect to Accord Party after falling out with the leadership of APC. But the governor described the report as a figment of the writer(s) imaginati...

Indication has emerged that the outgoing Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, may dump the Peoples Democratic Party for the Labour Party, reportedly owing to the failure of his Sokoto State counterpart, Governor Aminu Tambuwal, to emerge as the presidential candidate of the main opposition party. Fayose had recently threatened to leave the PDP, following Tambuwal’s failure to win the party’s presidential primary. Speaking in an interview in Abeokuta, the LP State Chairman, Comrade Abayomi Arabambi, said that Fayose had shown interest in contesting for the presidency on the platform of the party. Fayose is welcome. He didn’t tell us that it was because of Tambuwal Arabambi, who noted that Fayose did not tell the leadership of the party that he wanted to dump the PDP because Tambuwal did not emerge as the presidential candidate of PDP, said that the Ekiti governor wanted to join LP because he felt he lacked the necessary support in the PDP. The LP state chairman, however, ...

Frontline presidential contender, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has called for a televised presidential debate with President Muhammadu Buhari and other party flag bearers participating in the lead up to the February 2019 elections. Ezekwesili, who is running on the platform of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, said it is imperative that all candidates vying for the nation’s highest political position take part in debates to present their plans and policy thrust to the people. She went on to call on all Nigerians to say no to debates by proxy, adding that those who refuse to present themselves before the people do not deserve to lead them. According to the former Minister of Education and Solid Minerals, President Buhari should be bold enough to face the Nigerian people and present his plans and track record of achievements or lack thereof. She said in a statement on Sunday: “It appears that there is a conspiracy of the minority to trivialize the issue of presidential debate in a b...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has pleaded with south-east leaders to accept the decision of Atiku Abubakar to choose Peter Obi as his running mate for the 2019 election. The VP pick of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate has elicited a protest from south-east leaders who say they were not consulted. PDP governors and leaders of the region met on Saturday, reaching a resolution to meet with Atiku over the matter. Reacting to the development on Sunday, Jonathan said a presidential candidate has a right to pick a running mate of his/her choice. He said Atiku’s decision does not require “regional review and approval”. A statement signed by Ikechukwu Eze, Jonathan’s media aide, read: “The task before us is to build on this firm foundation and momentum by pulling in one direction and working assiduously for the victory of these candidates at the polls. “It is against this backdrop that I appeal for calm and understanding in ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed the Nigeria Immigration Service and other security agencies to bar some high profile Nigerians from leaving the country and selling their assets worth over N50 million. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, revealed this in a statement on Saturday. Shehu said the move by President Buhari was in the implementation of the Executive Order 6, which the court during the week described as legal. He said in the statement: “Following the instant judicial affirmation of the constitutionality and legality of the Executive Order 6 (EO6), President Muhammadu Buhari has mandated the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice to implement the Order in full force. “To this end, a number of enforcement procedures are currently in place by which the Nigeria Immigration Service and other security agencies have placed no fewer than 50 high profile persons directly affected...

The governorship candidate of African Democratic Party in Oyo State, ex-Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala has picked Prof. Abideen Olaiya, as his running mate for the 2019 governorship election. This information was contained in a statement signed by Abraham Ojo, Alao-Akala’s Chief Press Secretary and made available to newsmen in Ibadan on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Olaiya, an associate Professor of Crop Eco-physiology, was a governorship aspirant of Accord Party in the state before his appointment. Alao-Akala said the renowned scholar was picked after due consultations with stalwarts and key stakeholders of ADP in the state. Olaiya, an indigene of Ibadan, holds a doctorate degree in Agronomy from the University of Ibadan and lectures at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. He joined politics in 1995 and was in 1998 elected to represent Ibadan South East/North East at the House of Representatives on the platform of Grassroots Democratic Move...

Alao Akala A former governor of Oyo State , Otunba Adebayo Alao -Akala , on Sunday emerged as the governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party ( ADP) in Oyo state . Akala’ s political aide, Mr Wale Owu confirmed the development on Sunday while appearing on an Ibadan based radio station , Fresh FM 105. 9 political affairs programme , Crossfire , which was monitored by our correspondent . According to Owu , Akala decamped from the All Progressives Congress ( APC) on October 1 , 2018 . It would be recalled that Alao -Akala was one of the seven aspirants cleared by the National Working Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress to contest the Oyo State governorship primary , which held last week Saturday. But Akala boycotted the primary on the ground that the incumbent Governor Abiola Ajimobi had perfected all arrangements to favour his anointed candidate , whom Akala said would be Joseph Tegbe, an international consultant . Things, however took a different turn at...

Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has praised former President Olusegun Obasanjo for the role he played in his development in politics. The Waziri Adamawa paid tribute to Obasanjo on Sunday while giving his acceptance speech at the PDP convention venue in Port-Harcourt, Rivers state. Concise News had reported earlier that the former Vice President emerged winner of the party’s presidential primary with 1,532 votes while his closest contender, Aminu Tambuwal, polled 693 votes. In his acceptance speech, Abubakar said he learnt a lot under Obasanjo when he served as his deputy from 1999 to 2007. The PDP Presidential candidate also described the primary election as the most credible since the return of democracy in Nigeria. His words: “Today, we are witnessing a landmark event. A landmark event in the sense that since the rebranding of our great party, the PDP, and infact I daresay, since the return of de...

It is no longer news that the screening of aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress , APC, with some of its interesting outcomes, has come and gone . One of the interesting fallout was the audacious disqualification of two serving ministers from seeking the governorship tickets of the party in their respective states . Minister of women affairs, Senator Aisha Alhassan , aka Mama Taraba , as well as her counterpart in the communications ministry , Mr . Adebayo Shittu , was sensationally screened out by the Comrade Adams Oshiomhole- led national working committee , NWC, in what has turned out to be novel in the nation ’s fourth republic politics . The development , indeed , represents a turning point in the administration of political parties especially that of the governing party . Ordinarily , the governing party would have pampered those in the corridors of power as a mark of reward for political correctness and other considerations, particularly now that the APC h...

Tegbe, Babalola Owolabi, Olusola Ayandele now bow out of the APC gubernatorial primary race. As at present, Chief Bayo Adelabu and Chief Niyi Akintola remains in the race which therefore connotes, the game is now a 2-man race. In the speech of , Babalola Owolabi and Olusola Ayandele they both hereby declared they step down for Chief Bayo Adelabu. Details later

Dr. Adeduntan Azeez As Oyo APC decides who shall be given ticket to run the gubernatorial race with other political party, many of the aspirants has been bowing out of the primary election. Dr Adeduntan bowing out was revealed in a press statement released from the aspirant PRO Olaoluwa Bilau. Though it was as well recorded yesterday that Akala also has bow out of the game which then deduced the aspirants to six out of the initial 8 that was cleared. "One of the last seven governorship aspirants under the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Dr. Azeez Popoola Adeduntan will not be participating in the APC governorship primary holding on Sunday, September 30, 2018. "A statement from his campaign office through his media aide did not give any reason for the decision of the APC guber hopeful. "However, the statement indicated that Dr. Adeduntan will in due course provide further clarification on the matter. He concluded

Formal Gov. Alao Akala In a press statement released by Alao Akala's campaign manager, called on the National leadership of the party to come to the aid of the Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress which he said was on the way to sink due to imposition of candidate on delegates "former Governor of Oyo state and Gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in the State Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala has called on the National Leadership of the Party, President Mohammadu Buhari and other Leaders of the party to come to the aid of the Oyo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress which is on the brink of collapse due to the high-handedness and Imposition of candidate on delegates who will vote at the Primary Election of the party taking place tomorrow by Gov. Abiola Ajimobi . "  Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala wishes to state categorically and put the leadership of the party and the General Public on Notice that Governor Abiola Ajimobi ha...

Dr Azeez Adeduntan. Osun election declared to be inconclusive on Sunday as become matters arising in the society and has caused pandemonium between the two major parties in Osun state and beyond. All hands on deck as the intellectually sound ones in the society stands as watchdog over INEC decision. Though INEC decision has prompted instability between the candidates and parties involved PDP and APC to be exact. Dr Azeez Adeduntan of APC, who look forward to getting All Progressive Congress gubernatorial tickets to contesting in Oyo State in the primary this Saturday has sharply made is view and fear known to the people. Speaking explicitly in an interview with Mr Double A of Splash FM "APC is carrying a dead son! Oyetola was imposed on the party from Lagos. Adeoti is the right candidate they ought to make use of. APC is using the wrong candidate in Osun " who is Adeleke? Adeleke, as at now should be in court because he cannot provide his secondary school certificate and...

Alhaji Attahiru Bafawara A presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) , Alhaji Attahiru Bafawara, on Wednesday said the he was seeking to be president not for personal interests , but to serve the nation. Bafawara, a former governor of Sokoto State , made the statement while addressing party members in Lagos . The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that Bafarawa’s visit to the party secretariat was in continuation of his nationwide tour of state chapters to seek support for his aspiration. He said the nation needed somebody with a good understanding of governance and track record of performance to address the country’s challenges. The former governor said the All Progressives Congress ( APC) had failed to deliver of its promises and a change was needed to salvage the country. “I am coming for damage control ; I am coming to right so many things that are wrong with governance in the country . “I am contesting not for personal interests b...

Fani Kayode and Buhari Former Minister of Aviation and a national leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has declared that the police invitation to the governorship candidate of the party in Saturday election, Senator Ademola Adeleke was a desperation of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to win the election in Osun State . Fani-Kayode expressed worry on why Adeleke should be invited by the police in just two days to his election, saying it was an attempt to frustrate him ahead of the election. He said “this is nothing but a reprehensible act and I am not surprised. It shows the level of desperation of the APC and its government. APC is determined to win the Saturday’s election in Osun State.” “I’ve never heard of any governorship candidate being invited by the Police in less than two days to his election. This act of the Police is condemnable and I want all Nigerians to condemn it. “Buhari will do anything to...