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  • 2019: ADP denies endorsing Edo APC candidates

    The Edo chapter of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), has distanced itself from the purported endorsement of the candidates of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Edo, ahead of the 2019 general elections.

    The party, in a statement by its State Chairman, Mr Gabriel Oloruntobi, said that the ADP was not party to claims that candidates of 13 political parties had stepped down for Mr Patrick Obahiagbon and Mr Washington Osifo.

    Obahiagbon is contesting the Edo South Senatorial Seat, while Osifo is eyeing a seat in the Edo House of Assembly.

    Reports had claimed that the duo got the endorsement on Saturday, after candidates of other political parties agreed to step down for them under the aegis of the Progressives Registered Political Parties (PRPP).

    Spokesman for the PRPP, Mr Ogbodu Orlando, who is the State Chairman of Independent Democrats (ID), had, at the endorsement venue, claimed that the group was happy to endorse Obahiagbon because he was a “good material”.

    But the ADP, while dissociating its group from the said endorsement, insisted that Dr. Ese Owie was still its candidate for the Edo South Senatorial seat.

    “The ADP wishes to restate its total support to the candidacy of Dr. Ese Owie, its standard bearer for the Edo South Senatorial seat.

    “Owie is an accomplished international trade policy lawyer; he is a social entrepreneur and public intellectual.

    “Owie brings the imperative cerebral slant and gravitas to the race for the Edo South Seat.

    “With a proven track record in both the public and private sectors, he stands heads and shoulders above all other contestants,” he said.

    The party chairman appealed to ADP supporters to disregard the “false rumours” that the party had abandoned its candidate, saying that his rivals were already jittery over his credentials.

    While asking the APC to apologise for the “false alarm” aimed at misleading the public, the ADP Chairman said that the people should be allowed to decide their Senator based on merit and capacity to deliver. (NAN)

  • ADP candidate donates streetlights

    The Oyo North senatorial candidate of the African Democratic Party (ADP), Dr. Ahmed Olaniyi Saludeen, has ended the soot-polluted atmosphere at the night market in Iseyin with solar-powered streetlights.

    The solar-powered electricity changed the face of night market at Oja Oba, Adabo, Atake, Oja Nla, Oke Oja, all in the neighbourhood of City Hall.

    By the gesture, Salaudeen has ended the use of soot-spewing kerosene lanterns by traders as clean air now pervades the markets to boost sanitation and transactions.

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    A statement the politician’s media aide, Mallam Adebayo Muritala, said the ADP candidate showed foresight and knowledge about the needs of the people.

    At the inauguration of the streetlights, the ADP candidate assured residents of the senatorial district to expect more life-enhancing projects, if they vote for him next year.

    He promised to use his influence to attract more developmental projects to Oke Ogun to make life worth living for his constituents.

    Salaudeen, who is an insurance guru, said he would deploy his knowledge and experience to protect and promote the interests of Oke-Ogun people.

  • Ex-Speaker Dimeji Bankole flies APD guber ticket, hopeful of victory

    The Action Democratic Party (ADP) on Monday unveiled  former Speaker of the House of Representatives,  Dimeji Bankole, as its governorship candidate for the 2019  gubernatorial election in Ogun State.
    The state Chairman of ADP, Chief Wale Egunleti, who  announced  Bankole to party members and supporters in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, recalled the past contribution of the ex – Speaker in the areas of “infrastructural development within and outside the state,” assuring that he would do more if elected Governor in 2019.
    Accepting the challenge, Bankole  expressed the confidence that the party would win the governorship seat in Ogun state.
    He said the party is well structured to enhance its chances of defeating the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC)  in the coming general elections, and  lauded the party members for electing him the governorship candidate.
    He said: “I am exceedingly happy to be nominated as our party’s gubernatorial candidate.
    “I am grateful to this massive structure you have built in the last six years, especially in the last two years.
    “I promise that I will not, in any capacity, play with the ticket that you have given.
    “I believe I can speak on behalf of all other candidates that come February and March 2019, we will deliver.
    “I am speaking with all confidence with the work that you have done in the last two years, and still doing, most of it covertly.
    “We are in for a shot at the seat in this state.  We are dependent on God and the work that we have  done and still doing especially at grassroots level.
    “I assure you that the economic complexities of the Ogun State is not difficult . And the motor of our party ‘Mass Employment’ is something that we will follow.”

  • APGA, ADP, PDM, AGA pick candidates

    MORE presidential candidates have emerged to contest the February 14, 2019 election.

    The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) on Sunday elected Gen. John Ogbor (retd) as its presidential candidate.

    Ogbor immediately picked Mr. Jerry Chukwueke as his running mate.

    The Action Democratic Party (ADP) on Sunday elected Yabagi Yusuf Sani as its presidential candidate.

    Sani emerged the ADP candidate after an election by party delegates during its convention across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. It was witnessed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials.

    At the ADP convention held across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, of 5,336,433 voters accredited, Sani scored 5,242,346 votes.

    The Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) picked Pastor Habu Aminchi as its candidate.

    PDM Chairman Chief Francis Igwebuike said the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) and the National Working Committee (NWC) would continue to uphold the ingenuity of its founding father, the late Shehu Musa Yar’Adua.

    Aminchi pledged to restructure the country’s security architecture, fight insurgency and ensure total defeat of Boko Haram.

    The All Grassroots Alliance (AGA) endorsed Mr. Chuks Nwachukwu as its presidential candidate.

    Nwachukwu was picked at the party’s special primary on Sunday.

    At the end of the coalition of results from 24 states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nwachulwu received 4,698 votes from the possible 4,698.

  • Gbadamosi emerges Lagos ADP guber candidate

    Real estate developer, Mr Babatunde Gbadamosi, has emerged as the Lagos State gubernatorial candidate of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) for the 2019 election.

    Gbadamosi’s election was ratified by ADP members during the party’s primaries at its Lagos State Secretariat on Saturday.

    The Chairman, ADP, Lagos State, Mr Bolaji Adewale, said Gbadamosi, who was unopposed, scored a total of 119,919 votes during the primaries conducted across the 20 Local Government Areas of the state.

    Adewale thanked the party chieftains and supporters for the peaceful conduct of all primaries.

    He noted that ADP was the first party to adopt direct primaries in Nigeria as enshrined in its constitution.

    The chairman said the party would continue to come up with innovative ideas that would deepen democracy and governance in Nigeria.

    In his acceptance speech, Gbadamosi , who is the Managing Director of Redbricks Homes International Limited, thanked ADP members for giving him the privilege of contesting for the governorship position under the party’s platform.

    Gbadamosi said he was joining the race to rescue Lagos State from the “captivity” of godfatherism, mediocre governance and mismanagement of tax payers money.

    “The moment of truth is here. Today, we are formally entering the race to lead our dear state on the platform of our great party, the ADP.

    “After today, I will be presenting the Gbadamosi Plan for Lagos. It is a comprehensive document that touches on all aspects of our lives as Lagosians.

    “It touches on our individual and collective destiny as people of Lagos and the legacies we hope to bequeath to our children and our generation yet unborn, “he said.

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    According to him, the plan aims to address crucial areas such as public education, health care, transportation, affordable housing, among others which have deteriorated in the state.

    Gbadamosi said apart from having the prerequisite experience and qualifications to govern the state, he would assemble a team of professionals to administer over key areas to fast track its development.

    He expressed optimism that he would be victorious in the election because the people of Lagos were disappointed with the performance of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at both the federal and state levels.

    “My appeal to you is that you should join me today. Let us rewrite our future to one of our own dreams and reject the greed of godfathers.

    “I solemnly promise all Lagosians today that I will take Lagos Beyond Ordinary Governance, ” he said.

    Gbadamosi will be contesting against several candidates including Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the APC and Mr Jimi Agbaje of the PDP in the 2019 governoship poll.

    NAN

  • ADP candidate advises supporters not to be intimidated by opposition

    The candidate of the Action Democratic Party (ADP) in the September 22 Osun governorship election, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, has advised his supporters not to be intimidated by the opposition.

    Speaking at a rally in Ede, Adeoti who also advised the people to defend their votes appealed to the electorate to go and collect their Permanent Voters Card and resist the imposition by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

    He called on the security agencies to be professional in their conducts, assuring his supporters that their lives are secured.

    Expressing the hope that he would be sworn in on November 27 as the next governor of the state, Adeoti urged people to go out on September 22 and vote for the ADP.

    He said: “I will be sworn in on the November 27 as the governor of this state. When we were taken Rauf Aregbesola around then, we told him that he would be sworn in, and he was sworn in. By the Grace of God, I am going to be sworn in on November 27.

    “My administration would ensure payment of workers salaries on the 25 of every month. I have done it when I was chairman of Iwo Local Government.

    “If you vote for me on September 22, all existing policies will be rejigged. We will constitute a panel to look into everything and remove those that are not good.

    “We won’t do what people will not like. We won’t pocket our party chairman. I will allow my chairman to function. Our party chairman will not be like a chairman that is not functioning.

    “Aregbesola’s administration has only deceived workers with promotion without telling them when it will be effective. When I become the governor by the grace of God, promotion of workers will be effective from January. We will settle workers salary before we embark on any other work. Salaries of workers must be paid by 25th of every month.”

  • DSS invasion treasonable, say Makarfi, ADC, ADP

    FORMER People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Caretaker Chairman Senator Ahmed Makarfi and African Democratic Congress (ADC) said yesterday that the invasion of the National Assembly by operatives of the Directorate of State Services (DSS) was treasonable.

    They said the former DSS Director-General, Lawal Daura, should be arrested and tried for treason.

    Similarly, the Action Democratic Party (ADP) also condemned the action of the security agents and asked the international community to denounce the siege, which it said was an apparent move to instigate the impeachment of the Senate leadership.

    Makarfi, in a statement issued by his media aide, Murktar Sirajo, said such an act should not be allowed to go unpunished, describing it as a treasonable offence against the present democratic government.

    The statement reads: “The siege on the National Assembly by armed personnel of the DSS is yet another unfortunate scene in the theatre of the absurd that Nigeria’s democracy is being turned into by elements that seem to have lost it.

    “Senator Makarfi is pained at the news of this yet another assault on the legislature, which is an independent arm of government with constitutionally guaranteed powers and also one which has rules to guide its conducts and activities.

    “That constitutionally guaranteed independence must, therefore, be respected by allowing it run on its own rules, including the ones that guide how leadership emerge and are sustained.

    “To send armed men to deny access to the legislators into the legislative house, for whatever reason, is the height of impunity and desecration; it, in fact, is treasonable for which all connected with must be made to answer to the law.

    “Senator Makarfi, therefore, once again condemns this wanton assault on the legislature and identifies with the leadership as well as the entire members of the National Assembly at this very trying time that requires steadfastness, courage and total commitment to democratic ideals.”

    He called on all Nigerians to condemn this desperate and criminal move by rising up, through all legitimate means, to protect the country’s hard-earned democracy.

    In a statement signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief Anayo Arinze, the ADC noted several constitutional breaches carried out by security agencies, which were supposed to be protecting the nation’s democracy..

    The ADC said “the unwarranted invasion of Nigeria’s National Assembly on Tuesday, 7th August, 2018 by the former Director of the Directorate of Security Service (DSS), Mr. Lawal Musa Daura, is treasonable and, he should be arrested immediately and tried for treason to serve as a deterrent to other security operatives who may be used in future to dislocate the constitutional duties, freedom and rights of other arms of government or the democratic experiment in the country.”

    ADP National Chairman Yabagi Sani, in a statement, said that it had earlier warned about the peril of any contrivance to subvert the law and due process to effect any change in the leadership of the National Assembly.

    Sani said: “Nigerians have witnessed and have endured these successive acts of vulgar brigandage  by security agents. This  exorbitant assault on Nigerian democracy  signalled its intensity on Tuesday, July 24, when a detachment of police officers barricaded the residences of Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, in a failed attempt to stop them from presiding over the defections that saw about 50 federal lawmakers dumping the APC.

    “The ADP is however, relieved that the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, promptly sacked the DSS Director, Lawal Daura, on Tuesday in clear demonstration of firmness and good sense, which has at least momentarily doused the tension in the country and saved us from this humongous embarrassment before the civilised world.”

  • Why I left Osun APC for ADP, by ex-deputy chair

    •Defectors freedom of association, says party

    A former Deputy Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Alhaji Azeez Adesiji, has explained why he defected to a new political platform, the Action Democratic Party (ADP).

    He accused the leadership of the ruling party of “nepotism, impunity and unconcerned attitude”.

    Adesiji defected with eight other members of the State Working Committee (SWC) of the party.

    Addressing reporters, he said: “With other State Exco members, I have decided to make it known to you all that we have defected into a new, credible, alternative party because of impunity and undemocratic practices we witnessed in our former party, APC in Osun State, which is unbecoming of an acclaimed progressive party.

    “Among the 780 local government executives in the APC in Osun State, 580 are moving with me, the deputy state chairman of the party, to our new party, the ADP.

    “Also, among the 8,632 executives at the ward level in the APC, 5,620 are also joining the train to ADP.”

    Also, nine members of the SWC of the APC in Osun State defected to ADP.

    They had tendered their letters of resignation to the chairman of the party, Mr. Gboyega Famodun.

    According to them, they took the decision after due consultations with their mentors, close political associates, the public and lovers of the party.

    The nine among the 16 state officers were led by APC Deputy State Chairman, Alhaji Azeez Issa Adesiji.

    Others are: Alhaji Tajudeen Agbeti (ex-officio), Prince Ademola Bamidele (State Auditor), Alhaji Rasheed Bakare (Assistant General Secretary), Akinola Morakinyo (State PRO), Wole Adunola (ex-officio), Dr. Idayat Bakare (Assistant Welfare Secretary), Mrs. Ogundare Aina Afolabi (Assistant PRO) and Alhaji Sikiru Karim (Assistant Treasurer).

    But APC said the defectors have the liberty to exercise their right of association.

    In a statement by its spokesperson, Kunle Oyatomi, the party said: “Their reason for leaving is not convincing. They think that by claiming they are leaving with so-called 6,000 followers is going to make them the next government in Osun. They live in a fool’s paradise.

    “They underrated the issue involved in the next election. It is not about an individual, it is collective. And it is about the legacy of eight solid years of enviable achievements. If they don’t see anything good to defend in what has happened in the APC in the last eight years, it is too bad for the defectors.

    “Even their governorship candidate, Alhaji Adeoti, admitted on radio that even the blind could see the good work of Governor Rauf Aregbesola. And we ask: ‘Which party is best suited to continue with that good work? The answer surely is the APC, and it has the capacity and capability in Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola, its candidate for September 22 governorship election.”

  • Nine Osun APC state officers defect to ADP

    …Party says they have right of association

     

    Nine members of the state working committee of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State have defected to the Action Democratic Party (ADP).

    Before the defection, they tendered their letter of resignation jointly signed and addressed to the Chairman of the party, Mr. Gboyega Famodun.

    According to them, they took the decision after due consultations with their mentors, close political associates and public and lovers of the party.

    The nine out of sixteen state officers were led by the Deputy State Chairman of APC, Alhaji Azeez Issa Adesiji.

    Other members are Alhaji Tajudeen Agbeti, Ex-officio, Prince Ademola Bamidele, State Auditor, Alhaji Rasheed Bakare, Assistant General Secretary, Akinola Morakinyo, State PRO, Wole Adunola, Ex-officio, Dr. Idayat Bakare, Assistant Welfare Secretary, Mrs. Ogundare Aina Afolabi, Assistant PRO and Alhaji Sikiru Karim, Assistant Treasurer.

    In a swift reaction, the party said they have the right to exercise their right of association.

    The APC said: “Everybody has a right to believe or disbelieve in the party.”

    In a statement by its spokesperson, Kunle Oyatomi, the party said: “Their reason for leaving is not convincing. They think that by claiming they are leaving with so called 6000 followers is going to make them the next government in Osun, they live in a fool’s paradise.

    “They underrated the issue involved in the next election. It is not about individual, it is collective. And it is about the legacy of 8 solid years of enviable achievements. If they don’t see anything good to defend in what has happened in the APC in the last eight years, too bad for the defectors.

    “Even their guber candidate, Alhaji Adeoti admitted on radio this morning that even the blind could see the good work of Aregbesola. And we ask: ‘which party is best suited to continue with that good work? the answer surely is the APC and it has the capacity and capability in Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola, its candidate for September 22 guber election.”

    The party said it wished them luck.

  • Osun 2018: SSG resigns, defects to ADP as candidate

    Alhaji Moshood Adeoti has resigned his appointment as the Secretary to Osun State Government ( SSG ) and defected to the Action Democratic Party (APD).

    Adeoti had withdrawn from the race as governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress few hours to the primary election of the party on July 20, alleging plot to impose a candidate on the other aspirants.

    After defecting to the party, he became its governorship candidate for September 22 Osun governorship election.

    By affirmation, Adeoti scored 13,324 votes out of 13,367 party’s total votes.

    In his acceptance speech at the party state secretariat along Ikirun road, Osogbo, he promised to be committed to the ADP ideals, adding that he would work according to the party manifesto.

    Assuring members that he had the popularity to win the September 22 governorship election, he said: “I therefore want to seek your support in ensuring success for our party, by launching all out to mobilize support for our party’s victory in the forthcoming election. Today, we make history in our collective resolve to liberate our dear state from the grip of feudal lords who are so poor in humanity that all they have is money without conscience and humanity.

    ” As a grassroots politicians, who had passed through virtually all stages of political leadership as councillor, Local Government Supervisor, and party administrator and later Secretary to State Government. I present a sober, deep and solid experience critically needed to lead a people-centered and masses-oriented administration as the governor of Osun State.”

    The ADP electoral committee Chairman, Mr. Dozie Ike, called on members of the party to support Adeoti to win the election.

    Also, the Secretary of the electoral committee, Mrs. Lynn Olisa, disclosed that 13, 400 party members were accredited for the primary, while 13,367 voted.

    According to her: “Adeoti who is our only aspirant scored 13,324 votes and 43 votes voided.”