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  • Trade Fair Market violence won’t stop NAFDAC’s crackdown on substandard goods – Adeyeye

    Trade Fair Market violence won’t stop NAFDAC’s crackdown on substandard goods – Adeyeye

    National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says five of its officials were injured during an enforcement operation at the Lagos Trade Fair Market in Lagos State.

    The agency’s  Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, told newsmen during a news conference yesterday  in Lagos that 10 operational vehicles worth billions were also destroyed during the attack.

    She stated that the attack on NAFDAC officials was premeditated, aimed at harming them in the line of duty on Oct. 30.

    Adeyeye, represented by Dr Martins Iluyomade, said the officials narrowly escaped the violent attack following prompt intervention of  military personnel who were with them during the operation.

    She noted that the officials had confiscated four trucks of fake and unwholesome products worth N500 million before the mercenaries wielding dangerous weapons stormed the area with the intent to harm and kill the officials.

    According to her, confiscated products violate the provisions in the Counterfeit and Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act Cap. C.34 LFN 2004.

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    “As part of our mandate to safeguard public health, some NAFDAC officials visited the Trade Fair Complex, based on credible intelligence regarding the sale and distribution of fake, substandard and unwholesome regulatory products going on in the market.

    “The operation led by the Director of Investigation and Enforcement commenced peacefully without any issues till some mercenaries wielding dangerous weapons came to the scene and started fomenting trouble.

    “They asked for the identity of the director who was also the Chairman, Federal Task Force around the operation ground and destroyed 20 operational vehicles belonging to NAFDAC and other security agencies worth over N25 billion.

    “A reliable intelligence reveals that the attack was pre-planned and also a calculated attempt to assassinate the Director (I&E) with some other NAFDAC staff,” she said.

  • Adeyeye: a 20-year trip

    For Dayo Adeyeye, the new senator-elect for Ekiti South, it is mission-accomplished after 20 years – the first electoral victory, after no less than three futile bids for governor; an earlier failed bid for Senate and a scurry outside the progressive lines for salvation, which eventually turned a mirage.

    In 1999, when progressives were progressives and Afenifere was Afenifere, Adeyeye was among the first set to emerge, as Alliance for Democracy (AD) senatorial candidate for Ekiti South, in the whole of the South West.

    It was a giddy time back then.  Adeyeye was a veteran of the anti-Abacha no-peace-no-war, war of attrition; that condemned the withdrawing military to a shameful stalemate, over the June 12 question.  That eventually triggered the rushed exit of the military from politics.

    Besides, Adeyeye came in with impressive credentials.  He was among the vibrant brain boxes behind the Olu Falae run, though abortive, for the presidency in 1999.  He was also a shining star, as publicity secretary – a visible symbol of the highly charged intellectual battery that serviced the then mighty Afenifere.

    So, no doubt about it: it was a done deal.  Adeyeye would cruise to victory.  But that didn’t happen.  Adeyeye lost – and painfully, the only AD South West senatorial candidate to falter, out of 18!

    Still, more odysseys would come Adeyeye’s way in 2007.  After an Action Congress (now fused into All Progressives Congress, APC) gubernatorial nomination tiff, Adeyeye stormed into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to protest an alleged skew towards co-aspirant, Kayode Fayemi.  Fayemi would later become AC candidate and delayed governor, after a prolonged post-election adjudication.

    In APC, Adeyeye would face more hurdles: a truncated bid for minister, after everything appeared signed and sealed, and later a latter-day minister of state, under President Goodluck Jonathan, for striking a deal with Ayo Fayose, in his 2014 disputed gubernatorial candidacy, among Ekiti PDP co-aspirants.

    Ironically, it was on account of Fayose that Adeyeye stomped back to APC, when he lost the Ekiti PDP gubernatorial ticket to Kolapo Olusola Eleka, the outgoing governor’s deputy, apparently in breach of a previous agreement.

    With Adeyeye’s announced defection into APC, his Ise-Orun votes played a decisive factor in ensuring Fayemi’s second coming – the same Fayemi, the subject of Adeyeye’s odyssey into PDP!

    Adeyeye’s victory, after a 20 year rumble in the jungle, is sweet.  It is even sweeter that he attained it in his natural habitat: among his fellow progressives and on the turf he naturally belongs.

    But the big lesson for the South West progressives mainstream: get more disciplined and deepen intra-party justice and fair play.  That way, you would stop fissuring and dissipating.

    Congrats, Senator-elect Dayo Adeyeye.  It is 20 years worth the wait!

  • Fayemi ‘ll give Ekiti people new lease of life – Adeyeye

    A former governor-ship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has said that with the coming of Dr. Kayode Fayemi as governor, Ekiti people will get a new lease of life. Adeyeye, who defected from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC) shortly before the June 14 Ekiti governorship election, added that he was glad that Fayemi was already working hard to clear the mess he met on ground.

    Stating that the collective interests of the people will be better served under the new APC administration, Adeyeye said Fayemi possessed the required intellectual capacity and introspection required to initiate appropriate policies for the state. He listed the abolition of school fees, introduction of scholarships and revolving housing and car loans for teachers as some of the people-oriented policies that Fayemi has put in place.

    Adeyeye, who was also a former spokesman for the PDP, attributed the defeat of the PDP in Ekiti State to what he described as the recklessness of former Governor Ayo Fayose. Stating why he dumped the PDP for the APC, Adeyeye, in a chat with our correspondent in Abuja at the weekend, said Fayose ran Ekiti State and PDP like his personal estates. Adeyeye said, “It became extremely impossible for patriots like myself and others to continue to endure Fayose’s high-handedness, selfishness and fascist tendencies.

    “We managed to tolerate his misrule for four years, even when he personalised state resources and acted in total disregard for the PDP constitution, thereby denying majority of party members a level playing field. Fayose adopted a policy of extreme intimidation and witch hunt of everyone opposed to his jungle rule, particularly myself and party members associated with me. It got to a point that it became impossible for me to persuade my supporters to continue to endure the intimidation and oppression,” he said.

    Adeyeye, who has secured the APC ticket for the Ekiti South senatorial district in the 2019 elections, said given Fayose’s excesses, there was no way the Ekiti people would have voted for his imposed governorship candidate, Prof Kolapo Olusola.

    He dismissed claims by the PDP that the APC rigged the Ekiti governorship.

     

     

     

     

  • Bamidele, Adeyeye, Adetunmbi win Ekiti senatorial tickets

    •Adaramodu, Bamisile, four others grab Reps slots

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

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

    Bamidele polled 61,823 votes as against Mrs.Raji-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.

    He defeated Cyril Fasuyi (6,021); Dr Olusegun Osinkolu (5,312); Engr. Akin Bamisaye (2,003); Sir Kayode Otitoju (1,183) and 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 primaries.

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

    The Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 1 ticket went to Sola Fatoba.

    Former Ekiti Assembly Chief Whip, Mrs. OmowumiOgunlola, grabbed the ticket for Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 2.

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

    But the three House of Representatives aspirants in Ekiti North Federal Constituency 1 rejected the results.

    They called on the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to cancel the exercise, alleging there was no election in Oye and Ikole local government areas.

    Former House of Representatives member Bimbo Daramola; former House of Assembly Service Commission Chairman, Chief BunmiOgunleyeand Femi Ajayi, in a joint news conference in Ado-Ekiti alleged results from various wards were concocted for Owolabi, who was declared winner.

    The aggrieved aspirants accused the Electoral Committee led by Dr. Ibrahim Sule of allegedly manipulating the process and denying many party members of voting.

    Daramola said: “The result announced for our brother, Mr. Owolabi, was a disappointment and brazen desecration of democracy in our land.

    “Contrary to what the chairman of the panel from Abuja, Dr. Sule said that no photocopy would be used for result sheets but in Oye we have evidence that photocopies were used…

    “We plead with our party to do justice in this regard by cancelling the outcome of the primary in the interest of our party’s reputation that is being damaged.”

     

  • I’ll be a better voice for Ekiti South at the Red Chamber – Adeyeye

    In this encounter with Daniel Adeleye, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye spoke of his vision for Ekiti South Senatorial Zone and other issues. Excerpts

    YOU have declared interest to run for Ekiti South Senatorial District’s seat in the coming elections. What do you have in store for the people of the area that they are not getting under the current representation?

    Ekiti South Senatorial District, from my point of view, is terribly marginalised in the scheme of things in the state; two universities and one polytechnic and health technology, Ijero-Ekiti, making four higher institutions, are in the central. In the north, we have a federal university and the school of agriculture. The only thing we have in the south, despite the fact that we have six local governments, is the college of education. At the time the federal university was cited in Oye-Ekiti, there was a senator from the north and the south and I believe one made a better claim than the other. What I know is that while we are saying we are homogeneous, we refuse to share things evenly among ourselves. I am going to be a very steady and loud voice for Ekiti South and correct marginalisation that had happened in the area over the years in terms of federal largesse and even state allocation of resources to the benefit of the Ekiti South Senatorial District, God willing, if I find myself in the senate.

    Moreover, I believe that the dividend of democracy should get to the people more, it’s not just to rely on the legislation all the time, thinking that whatever allocation in the budget we can bring to our area. The position of the senate affords the opportunity to be able to meet with critical queers in the economy who can be influenced to achieve one or two things in your own area. Ogun State for example has 14 universities, many of them are owned by missions and many are owned by private individuals. What I am trying to say is that a senator does not just have to wait, thinking that all he needs to do is about government doing something for people. He should be able to leverage on his position to attract private sector, even foreign institutions to do things for the people. I am one of the people who persuaded Baba Afe Babalola to establish a university in Ekiti; this idea I will also be looking at to see how we can give a robust representation to the people of Ekiti South.

    What does the APC victory in the recent Ekiti governorship election mean to you?

    It was like a liberation war for some of us; liberation of Ekiti State from the shackles of oppression of dictatorship of one man rule and of extreme wastage, corruption and unprecedented looting of our commonwealth. For me therefore, July 14 was a great day when the APC won the election and sent the person who called himself the Emperor of Ekiti out of the state. You can see how people who are liberated from oppression and dictatorship will feel. So, it’s not just a victory for APC alone, I believe it was a victory for the entire people of Ekiti State to get rid of this person who had hoodwinked, brainwashed, harassed them, intimidated them and subdued most of them and therefore instituted what I will call a ‘one man rule’ in the state. So, it was a very great day for all of us.

    You are one of the foundation members of Alliance for Democracy (AD) and later jumped ship to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) when Action Congress (AC) was formed. Now you’re in the All Progressive Congress (APC). Deep down, does it mean there is really no difference between the party blocs; no difference between the conservatives and progressives?

    What I can say is that Nigerian political party system is still gradually evolving. They are yet to clearly cut ideological differences. We have seen many of the state governors who belong to the same party but do not implement the same policies. Some concentrate on social welfare programmes and some concentrate on infrastructure and all that. So, there are no clear-cut ideological positions per say. I don’t blame the system though, I think we are just evolving as a nation and of course ideology will shift from left and right like in any other country.

    Given the current mood of Nigerians, what are the chances of your party, APC and its candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari, in the 2019 General Elections?

    I think President Buhari will coast on to victory. By my little experience of Nigeria politics, he’s a man to beat and I will tell you why. I cannot see any formidable opposition against president Buhari at the moment. The opposition in PDP is fractured with weak leadership at the moment and I know the party very well; you can give that to me. The truth of the matter is that I cannot see any serious contender against President Buhari, not even one. Buhari, with the entire APC members solidly behind him, is easily going to coast on to victory. And again, the circumstances that produced the change of government in 2015 are not there now, so I expect that the president will easily win this election. I even think people should focus on how PDP will manage their primaries successfully. And even if they are able to manage it well, they can’t still produce the next president.

    But a lot had happened between 2015 and now; thousands of jobs were lost, economy has been on its knee, hardship everywhere, the spate of killings in some parts of the country; so how does your party intend to market its candidate to Nigerians?

    Well, it depends on the side people look at it. The security situation in the country is something that we’ll continue to debate about. The president met a nation that was in the grief of very vicious insurgency and he tried to grapple with that. Then we now have the herdsmen attacks that the administration has to contend with. Depending on how people view it, whether they think his performance is satisfactory or not, is a matter of opinion. Some people will say the issue of insecurity has been addressed and some people may have different view that depends on the school of opinions in which they belong.

    On the issue of economy, it’s also a matter of opinion. The condition for recession and the poor state of economy was also the thing he met on ground and what he’s trying to address at the moment. And then the fact that on the issue of economy, there seems to be a ray of hope that things may look better as we go ahead. The indices are positive, production is increasing, and foreign investors are now coming in. The last trip to China, even before then, the investors’ confidence is improving and all that.

  • Ignore Fayose’s antics, says Adeyeye

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

    Speaking through the Director of Publicity, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement (PAAM), Niyi Ojo, in a statement Adeyeye, said Fayose had 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.

    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.

    He said: ‘’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 admired 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.”

  • WAEC failure exposes Fayose’s deceit, says Adeyeye

    Former Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye has expressed regrets over the failure of Ekiti State candidates in the May/June West African Examinations Council (WAEC) exams.

    Ekiti State came 22nd out of 36 states of the federation, which was a far cry from the 1st position recorded in the National Examinations Council (NECO) exams for two consecutive years in 2016 and 2017.

    The NECO performance has been a topical campaign issue by Governor Ayo Fayose and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Prof. Kolapo Olusola in the run-up to the poll.

    The main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) had maintained Fayose should not claim credit for the NECO success, which it attributed to the foundation laid by the administration of former Governor Kayode Fayemi, who is its candidate.

    But Adeyeye, now an APC chieftain, said the latest WAEC result has exposed the alleged rot in the education sector under Fayose.

    In a statement yesterday by Director of Publicity, Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement (PAAM), Niyi Ojo, Adeyeye said the NECO success was achieved owing to reforms by the administrations of Segun Oni and Fayemi, only bearing fruit under Fayose.

    The former Chairman of State Universal Basic Education (SUBEB) under Oni said the huge investment in the sector “was undeservedly appropriated by Fayose as his achievements.”

    Adeyeye said: “One wonders how you could achieve such outstanding result without any investment whatsoever in infrastructural and human capital development.

    “Fayose was claiming that he could reap without sowing; now the deceit has been exposed.

    “There has not been recruitment of teachers to teach these students in the last three and half years. In most schools, graduates of Religious Studies are made to teach English Language, Physics graduates teaching Chemistry and Business Administration teaching Accounting.

    “The core subject allowances paid by Fayemi as well as rural allowance were cancelled by Fayose.

    “Salaries are owed for up to eight months arrears, no furniture for teachers and students and morale at the lowest ebb.”

    The statement went on: “The teachers are not motivated and students groaning under taxation by the government that kept most of them out of the school compound.

    “There is no provisional textbooks and other instructional materials to aid learning.

    “The destruction wrought upon the education sector by Fayose is now finally manifesting. It will take years to rebuild the education sector in Ekiti State from the present decay.

    “That is why we earnestly pray for Dr Fayemi to come back and save the education sector from total collapse.”

     

  • NAFDAC DG Adeyeye sacks consultants over anomalies

    Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye has revoked the appointments of consultants to the agency over allegations of anomalies and irregularities

    In a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja, Prof. Adeyeye noted that the activities of the consultants were detrimental to the Federal Government’s ease of doing business policy.

    “The operations of the NAFDAC Appointed Consultants in recent times have been fraught with a lot of challenges and irregularities, which militated against the very purpose of their appointment i.e. easing regulatory business of the industry with NAFDAC.

    “NAFDAC, in this new dispensation under my watch, cannot allow these anomalies to continue,’’ Prof. Adeyeye declared.

    “Therefore, I have directed immediate revocation of the appointments of NAFDAC Consultants,’’ the Director-General said.

    Prof. Adeyeye said that industries and business organizations with necessary dealings with NAFDAC should, henceforth, deal directly with the Agency through its designated officers.

    “Each business management interfacing with NAFDAC especially the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s)/Academic Consultants and company Regulatory Officers can interface with our staff,’’

    She directed NAFDAC officials to “ensure strict compliance,’’ with the revocation directive.

  • Fayose’s offer of 2,000 jobs a scam, says Adeyeye

    Former Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has described the decision of Governor Ayo Fayose to employ 2,000 new workers as a “huge scam to deceive the people”.

    He urged residents to be wary of the latest job offer from a governor that has been complaining that the state has no money to pay civil servants who are in service.

    Adeyeye said Fayose was fond of giving “fake promises” to the people since 2002, when he emerged on the political scene and has been doing same ever since.

    In a statement by the Director of Media and Publicity of Prince Adedayo Adeyeye Movement (PAAM), Chief Niyi Ojo, the former minister wondered why Fayose waited till few weeks to the election before taking decision to employ workers.

    Rather than demanding for submission of fresh applications, Adeyeye suggested that Fayose should employ from the pool of ten thousand youths he allegedly deceived into obtaining forms for the sum of  N1,000 each, few weeks after he was sworn into office, about four years ago.

    Adeyeye said: “It is obvious that he is only deceiving the people of the state. It is so unbecoming of a state governor to deceive the youths of his state, who have supported him so much in the past.

    “We are talking of indigent youths from poor homes, who laboured to pay for forms and registered for this non-existent jobs, three and a half years ago.

    “Now, he wants to repeat the scam again, just few months to the end of his term and one month before the governorship election, through which he wants to continue to rule the state by proxy.

    “The people of the state should be wary of his antics and refuse to be deceived by the Pharaoh in Ekiti State.

    “It is a good thing that the teachers and workers have seen through his antics and have decided to ditch him and his team for the opposition, the youths of the state, should follow their lead and refuse to be further taken in by his lies.”

    Adeyeye said Fayose has failed to improve the standard of living and human capital development of Ekiti people for the past three-and-half years of his administration leaving the people pauperized.

    He added: “Instead, it has been one scam after the other. The other time, he bribed the people, especially the teachers with cups of rice and premature fowls, which turned our teachers into public ridicule around the country.

    “He forced teachers to queue up in the sun to collect these insulting gifts and made a home-made movie out of them. Thereby deriding them and turning them into public scorn.

    “He is doing the same thing with our youths now. They are queuing up in the sun and rain to collect forms for non-existent jobs from somebody who cannot pay salaries for the past eight months.

    “Where will he get the funds to pay their salaries, when he can’t pay those in the service at the moment? He is just using this as a political gimmick, that will not benefit anyone at the end of the day.

    “Anybody that watched the television on Monday, would have seen the wife of a state governor, distributing tangible life-changing gifts to the women and youths of her state. Items like sewing machines, motorcycles, grinding machine and other materials.

    “What have Governor Fayose and wife ever done for the youths and women of the state, except spiritual pronouncements and fake promises that have not benefitted anybody, except themselves?”

  • Adeyeye: Ekiti people poorer under Fayose

    FORMER Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has berated Governor Ayo Fayose for alleged lack of vision and inflicting hardship and poverty on the people of Ekiti State. Adeyeye said Ekiti people are poorer under Fayose because the governor abandoned human capital development programmes of his immediate predecessor in office, who is now the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. Speaking on a special interview programme on Voice 89.9 FM, Ado-Ekiti, Adeyeye urged the electorate to reject Fayose’s anointed candidate, Prof. Kolapo Olusola.

    Adeyeye urged the electorate in Ekiti State to vote Fayemi, whom he said has a genuine vision to make life better for the people and develop the Fountain of Knowledge. He said a vote for Olusola is a vote for continuation of poverty,hardship, misery, hunger, lack of focus and placing Ekiti in Fayose’s grip after he might have left office. Adeyeye, who defected to the APC on May 29, accused Fayose of playing games with the state treasury and lack of accountability.

    The former minister said Fayose has failed to declare the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) despite various forms of taxes imposed on the people of the state. Those reeling under tax burden, according to Adeyeye include owners of small, medium and large scale businesses, artisans, civil servants, tertiary institution workers and pupils in nursery, primary and secondary schools. He criticized alleged plots by the Fayose administration to poison the minds of Ekiti people against the APC governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi. Adeyeye assured teachers and civil servants of job security and better welfare packing saying Fayemi has no plan to sack them as being alleged by Fayose and Olusola. Reacting through his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Fayose said he was not surprised by Adeyeye’s outburst describing him as a spent force and a man still frustrated by his loss at the PDP primary to Olusola.