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  • Lagos assembly holds clearance for Abayomi, Adeyoye, 15 others

    Lagos assembly holds clearance for Abayomi, Adeyoye, 15 others

    The Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday withheld the confirmation of 17 commissioner-nominees.

    Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on July 28 sent the list of 39 intending members of the state Executive Council (EXCO).

    After screening by a committee of 12 members, the report of the panel was considered by the House Committee of the Whole yesterday. They confirmed 22 nominees through voice vote after the names were called by Speaker Mudashiru Obasa.

    There was no reason given by the House to withholding the confirmation of the 17 nominees.

    Read Also: List of 17 commissioner-nominees rejected by Lagos Assembly

    Most of those yet-to-be confirmed served with the governor in his first term. They are: Mrs. Folashade Adefisayo (Education); Prof. Akin Abayomi (Health); Gbenga Omotoso (Information and Strategy); Olalere Odusote (Energy); Sam Egube (Economic Budget and Planning); Mrs. Solape Hammod (S.A. on Sustainable Development Goals/Lagos Global); Mrs. Cecilia Dada (Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation); Mrs. Aramide Adeyoye (Works and Infrastructure).

    Others yet-to-be confirmed are: Yomi Oluyomi; Mrs. Folashade Ambrose; Ms. Barakat Bakare; Rotimi Fashola; Olalekan Fatodu; Mosopefolu George; Seun Osiyemi; Rotimi Ogunwuyi and Olumide Oluyinka.

    The confirmed nominees are: Layode Ibrahim; Mobolaji Ogunlende; Dr. Dolapo Fasawe; Mrs. Bola Olumegbon; Idris Aregbe; Ms. Abisola Olusanya; Moruf Akinderu-Fatai; Kayode Bolaji-Roberts; Abiola Olowu and Mrs. Toke Benson-Awoyinka.

    Others confirmed are: Dr. Oreoluwa Finnih-Awokoya; Yakub Alebiosu; Lawal Pedro (SAN); Tunbosun Alake; Gbenga Oyerinde; Adekunle Olayinka; Jide Babatunde; Afolabi Ayantayo; Tokunbo Wahab; Olakunle Rotimi-Akodu; Jamiu Alli-Balogun and Abdulkabir Ogungbo.

    Speaker Obasa said the confirmation followed rigorous and detailed screening by an ad hoc committee.

    The speaker hailed the committee for its effectiveness, urging the confirmed nominees to remember they are in office to serve.

    He also promised that the House would continue to do its best in the interest of the state.

  • Primaries: Abayomi dumps APC

    A senatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Ondo State, Dr. Tunji Abayomi has dumped the ruling party for the Action Alliance(AA), alleging  irregularities, marginalisation and unconstitutional action by the APC leadership. The incumbent Ondo North Senator, Prof Ajayi Boroffice was cleared by the National Working Committee(NWC) to re-contest the seat for the senatorial district in 2019 while the APC leadership in the state favoured Abayomi as its candidate for the seat.

    Abayomi in a letter to Governor  Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, described as unacceptable to his people the denial of their constitutional rights which was against the  laid down constitution and rules of the party. His words ” It is never the leaders who at any rate are expected to be chosen by the people that impose candidates in democracy. This is why the constitution of APC defines candidates as “any person who has been nominated at a primary or party election to contest at a general election”.

    “In keeping with long standing determination to fight for my right and your right, I will run for Senate in Ondo North Senatorial Zone on the platform of Action Alliance,” he said.

  • Court docks man over alleged manslaughter

    Court docks man over alleged manslaughter

    A 68-year-old man, Adebayo Olaegbe, was on Friday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos over alleged dangerous driving and causing the death of a 27-year-old girl.

    Olaegbe, whose address was not stated, is standing trial on a three-count charge bordering on manslaughter, dangerous driving and driving without a valid licence.

    The Prosecutor, Insp. Abbas Abayomi, told the court that the accused committed the alleged offences on Dec. 4, at 7:45 a.m. on the Lekki/Epe Expressway, Lagos.

    He said that the accused drove a Toyota Camry car marked AAA 481 EJ in a dangerous manner and caused the death of one Amaka Onyema.

    Abayomi said the accused used the vehicle to injure two other persons who were standing at a bus stop with the deceased.
    He said that the two persons, one Desmond Denis, 21, and one Tunde Quadri, 22, sustained injuries.

    According to the prosecutor, the accused drove the vehicle with an expired driver’s licence.

    He said the offences contravened Sections 7 (1), 19, and 20 of the Road Traffic Law of Lagos State, 2012.

    The accused pleaded not guilty to the three-count charge.

    The Magistrate, Mrs Abimbola Komolafe, admitted the accused to bail in the sum of N500, 000 with two sureties in like sum.

    She said that the sureties must be gainfully employed, show evidence of tax payments to the Lagos State Government, and have their addresses verified.

    The magistrate adjourned the case until Jan. 23, for mention.

    NAN

  • APC chieftain slams Abayomi for letter to Tinubu

    APC chieftain slams Abayomi for letter to Tinubu

    •‘Party’s National leader has right to back aspirant’

    AN All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Razaq Ayodele Obe, has insisted that the party’s National Leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu committed no offence for supporting any aspirant of his choice in the governorship poll in Ondo State.

    The oil and gas mogul, in a chat with reporters in Ado Ekiti yesterday, criticised an APC governorship aspirant in Ondo State, Dr. Tunji Abayomi, for his letter to Tinubu, accusing the latter of planning to impose an aspirant as his preferred candidate for the November 26 poll.

    The petroleum engineer-turned politician, who hails from Ilara Mokin in Ifedore Local Government of Ondo State, described Abayomi’s action as hypocritical and an attempt to gain cheap popularity.

    Obe noted that rather than attacking the personality of Tinubu, whose support Abayomi had also courted, he advised him and other aspirants to keep on reaching out to the delegates, who are eligible to vote at the shadow poll.

    He said: “I am one of those averse to the idea of one politician rising up and imposed a candidate. But Asiwaju Tinubu reserves the right to support whoever he wants to  become the Ondo governorship flagbearer provided the constitution and guidelines on how a candidate should emerge is not circumvented.

    “I would have risen up to condemn the APC national leader, if he had unilaterally imposed a candidate. But he had given assurances that although he is backing a particular aspirant, the rights of other aspirants would not be trampled upon by disallowing free and fair primary election.

    “With all sense of modesty and rational thinking, I expected the aspirants to have praised Tinubu, rather than pouring invectives on his personality in spite  of the sacrifices he made for APC to thrive in Nigeria and Southwest.”

    “To me, it could have been a different thing if Asiwaju Tinubu has secretly been supporting a candidate of the PDP. The person they accused him of supporting is a member of the APC and it would be a flagrant and brazen infringement of his rights for people to call for his head for taking a stand in this matter.”

    In spite of the raging controversies, Obe was confident that the APC will win the election on the premise that the Ondo populace are already disillusioned with lack-lustre performances of Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s administration.

    Obe appealed to the national and zonal leaders of the party to rein in their members and prevent looming crisis in the party that could rob it of victory despite the open and unfettered chances the party now enjoys.

    He said the party was able to make remarkable outing in the 2015 general elections in Ondo State, owing to palpable cohesion within its ranks.

    He urged the political gladiators to sustain the tempo for APC to bounce back to reckoning in the next election.

  • ‘Abayomi should apologise to Tinubu’

    ‘Abayomi should apologise to Tinubu’

    Indigenes of Ikeja community in Lagos State have kicked against utterances by Ondo State governorship aspirant, Dr. Tunji Abayomi, asking him to apologise to the leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

    The indigenes, under the aegis of Orile Ikeja Indigenes Development Association, in a statement by its patron, the oba-elect of Ikejaland, Samsondeen Adeleye, and Coordinator Adeshina Balogun, said Tinubu is a democrat and not a dictator.

    The statement read: “We  are appalled, to say the least, in the manner and way our brother from Ondo State, Dr. Tunji Abayomi, has thrown caution into the winds, by descending on Nigeria’s political beacon of hope and illustrious son of of Ikeja, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

    “Why we are not saying Abayomi is not entitled to his opinion, he came short of decency in the way he alleged that Tinubu was trying to impose a governorship candidate on Ondo State APC.

    “In saying so, he went ahead to paint him as a dictator and someone who would always want his wishes to prevail upon others.”

    “To these, we seek to teach Abayomi some lessons of history by telling him that Tinubu, who is from Ikeja, has never imposed anybody on us in the community, much less Lagos State. Yes, just as Tinubu said, he had had occasions to support one candidate or the other for elections, it was not always automatic that he would have his way. On such an unfavourable occasion, he would quickly adjust and support the winner in any primary election, even though the winner is not his preferred choice.

    “Again, Abayomi should be told that some years ago, when Tinubu won the ticket to contest the Senate and had even printed posters, someone protested that that it shouldn’t be Tinubu always, that after all, he had just been governor for eight years. To the surprise of everyone, Tinubu backed out from the Senate contest and the ticket was given to Senator Ganiyu Solomon.

    “So, we believe that Abayomi must have been misled to insult the integrity of a great democrat- Tinubu, and we suggest to him to openly apologise to our own Jagaban, and we are sure that he shall be forgiven.”

     

  • Insurgency: Military ‘at war with itself’, says Abayomi

    Insurgency: Military ‘at war with itself’, says Abayomi

    A lawyer-activist  has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to change his strategies in the fight against Boko Haram, whose activities he described as embarrassing.

    “We do not understand what is going on in our tactically ‘withdrawing military’, which appears to be at war against itself instead of against the overwhelming Boko Haram,” Olatunji Abayomi said in an open letter to the president.

    He wondered how the government could allow Boko Haram to occupy over 20,000sq/km of the country’s land, including Gulani, Gujba, Gwoza, Gamboru, Dikwa, Bama, Kala-Balge, Michika and Madagali.

    “Mr President, we have watched with great embarrassment the laying of the honour of Nigeria in dust by Boko Haram with unbearably aggressive mass butcheries. Even more embarrassing is the empty assurances we constantly receive from your government,” Abayomi said.

    The senior lawyer said Nigerians are tormented by empty assurances of freedom for the abducted 200 Chibok school girls held in captivity for over 203 days by “a boastful band of insurgents”.

    The letter reads in part: “These girls are our daughters. They are our beloved. Mr President, they are asking you in their troubles, they demand an answer – where is government? The hundreds of soldiers, policemen, customs, immigration as well as countless displaced citizens are asking you Mr President, where is government?

    “Our land is under threat and siege by a strange band of invaders that increase daily, in bold attraction for our abandoned youth, because of failure of government. Nigerian youths, who still believe in the hope of a great nation are asking too, where is government, no less than their many colleagues in the mass graves all over the Northeast.

    “Mr President, we are confronted and tormented by a season of failures and surprises from your government. Your government must realise that life is more important than bread. It needs to wake up from slumber to restore meaningful leadership, hope and belief and the best way to do so is to avoid the annoying excuses of your government and their representatives.

    “The people of Nigeria are getting very very tired indeed. Nigeria needs your soul, energy, your intuition, your action and a valuable conquest over Boko Haram.

    “Mr President, your government cannot enjoy peace and pleasure on the face of the present spreading and confound national woes. Whatever imagination is needed, whatever ingenuity is required, needs to be immediately called upon to free our land from fear.

    “Mr President, arise. We humbly plead with you. Help save Nigeria our native land. Awake the warlike spirit of the Army. Renew the faith of the people through convincing performance result. Honour your time with new desperate urgency and assured commitment that will save our land from the prevailing woes.”