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  • Senate faults suit against purchase of cars with N5.5bn

    The Senate has faulted a suit seeking to stop it from utilising the sum of N5.5billion it has allegedly earmarked for the purchase of official vehicles for its Principal Officers.

    Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Adedayo Adeyeye, described the court process as the handiwork work of detractors which is bound to fail.

    It could be recalled that concerned Nigerians in collaboration with some Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), like the the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT and Enough is Enough (EiE), had instituted a suit at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, seeking to stop an alleged plan to by the 9th Senate to allegedly spend the sum of N5.5billion on vehicles for its principal officers.

    They had asked the court to “restrain, prevent and stop the National Assembly Service Commission from paying or releasing the budgeted sum until the downward review of the amount proposed by the Senate.”

    Adeyeye, who spoke to reporters in Abuja, said that he is not aware of any such plan and wondered why some people decided to act on mere rumours being peddled in the media.

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    He said: “It (suit) is an exercise in futility; a complete exercise in futility. Even I as a Senator have not heard anything about that.

    “So why will people be relying on rumour and newspaper reports? I wouldn’t know and in any case, if the Senate is going to spend that (amount); if it is budgeted for, then it means it is purely legal.

    “So why will the National Assembly be different? Why are they focusing on the National Assembly and not looking at the Executive, Judiciary arms of government? All of these people are entitled to official cars and do use official cars.

    “Directors of agencies, even minor officials in agencies use official cars. So why will the National Assembly be different? Why should it be a problem that the National Assembly is entitled to cars, to use official cars?

    “Some of the vehicles they bought four years ago were no longer serviceable while others have probably been sold to their users,” he said.

  • Adeyeye is Senate Media Committee chairman

    Senate President Ahmad Lawan yesterday named the senator representing Ekiti South, Adedayo Adeyeye, the Chairman of Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Media and Public Affairs.

    Lawan said the committee would function and interface until a standing committee is constituted.

    Other members of the committee are: Senators Aishatu Dahiru, Uba Sani, Abba Moro, Ifeanyi Ubah and Betty Okagua-Apiafi.

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    Before he defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adeyeye was the spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    With the constitution of the Selection Committee, it is expected that chairmen and members of the standing committees of the Upper Chamber would soon announced.

     

  • Bamidele, Adeyeye, Adetunmbi win Ekiti senatorial tickets

    Former House of Representatives member, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele, former Senator, Mr. Olubunmi Adetunmbi and former Minister of State for Works, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye have clinched the three available senatorial tickets in Ekiti State.

    At the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries conducted on Friday, Bamidele defeated incumbent Senator, Mrs. Fatimat Raji Rasaki, to win in Ekiti Central senatorial district.

    Bamidele polled 61,823 votes as against Mrs. Rasaki’s 3,289 in all the 57 wards of the district.

    In Ekiti North, Adetumbi polled 21,763 to defeat a strong field of five aspirants.

    Aspirants defeated by Adetunmbi and their votes are Mr. Cyril Fasuyi (6,021), Dr Olusegun Osinkolu (5,312), Engr. Akin Bamisaye (2,003), Sir Kayode Otitoju (1,183) and Mr. Femi Ajepe (1,183).

    Adeyeye, despite standing as a consensus candidate in Ekiti South, still polled 51,443.

    The six APC candidates for the House of Representatives were also elected at the Friday’s primaries.

    Former Chief of Staff to the ex-Governor Kayode Fayemi, Mr. Yemi Adaramodu emerged as the flag bearer for Ekiti South Federal Constituency 1 while former House of Assembly Speaker, Mr. Femi Bamisile won the ticket for Ekiti South Federal Constituency 2.

    The Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 1 ticket went to Mr. Sola Fatoba. Former Ekiti Assembly Chief Whip, Mrs. Omowumi Ogunlola, grabbed the ticket for Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 2.

    Former Chairman of the State Housing Corporation, Mr. Peter Owolabi, won the Ekiti North Federal Constituency 1 ticket while former Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Legal Matters, Mr. Ibrahim Olarewaju, clinched the ticket for Ekiti North Federal Constituency 2.

    Speaking with reporters in Iyin-Ekiti after being declared winner, Bamidele promised to make the difference if he wins at the National Assembly polls in 2019.

    He said the direct primary conducted in Ekiti had afforded every member the right of participation as entrenched in democratic ideals,
    saying act of imposition would only brew ill-feelings among party members.

    Bamidele lauded party members for exhibiting so much love for him, urging them to replicate the gesture next year’s February 16, when the presidential and National Assembly elections will be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

  • Ekiti 2018: Ignore Fayose’s antics, he is a clown, says Adeyeye

    A chieftain of the All Peoples Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has advised the people of the state to ignore, what he described as the latest antics of the state Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose.

    Fayose had  claimed that he was attacked by some armed security agents at the state Government House on Wednesday.

    Speaking through the Director of Publicity, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement (PAAM), Niyi Ojo, in a statement on Wednesday, Adeyeye, said Fayose has always been a “clownish dramatist.”

    Adeyeye said Fayose’s latest “stunt” was aimed at creating a diversion for the people of the state, while covering up his nefarious activities, which are aimed at rigging Saturday’s governorship election.

    The statement reads in part; “Fayose has always been a dramatist. He has always been acting drama. Ekiti people should ignore him and remain resolute in their determination to throw him out of office and out of Ekiti State completely, on July 14.”

    The former Minister of State for Works, congratulated the people of the state for their impressive turnout on Tuesday for the party’s mega rally and the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari.

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    He also implored the youths of the state, especially students of higher institutions, not to involve themselves in the Governor’s schemes to rig Saturday’s election, adding that it could turn awry for them and knowing the governor, he would deny them, when they are arrested and incarcerated .

    ”I congratulate the people of the state for their massive turn out on Tuesday for the visit of President Muhammdu Buhari  to the state APC’s mega rally and other VIPs who came too. This was despite all the devilish plans of the tyrannical state governor to prevent and disrupt the rally.

    ”I admire their courage and determination to weed out the Pharaoh of Ekiti state through the polls on Saturday.

    ”There are reports that some of our youths are been misguided by the despot at the state House, to engage them in disrupting the democratic process.

    “These have dire consequences and the character in the government house has been known in the past to betray those who did his bidding in the past and get caught. Be wise, don’t be used for devilish plots, which are anti-democratic”. Adeyeye  warned.

     

     

  • Minister: expect PDP’s victory

    Minister: expect PDP’s victory

    Minister of State for Works Adedayo Adeyeye has predicted victory for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State.

    Adeyeye told reporters in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, that the party’s governorship candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore, would have “landslide victory”.

    He said Ekiti people had opened the floodgate of victory for the PDP in the Southwest, adding that nothing would stop the victory ship from berthing in Osun on Saturday.

    Adeyeye said: “Osun people have shown that they are tired of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government and are ready for a change. They are eagerly waiting for Saturday to elect their governor. No amount of noise making, propaganda and falsehood can stop the PDP from winning the election.”