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  • Osun 2026: Former Buhari aide Omoworare joins guber race

    Osun 2026: Former Buhari aide Omoworare joins guber race

    A former Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to former President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters, Senator Babajide Omoworare, has joined the 2026 Osun State gubernatorial race under the platform of the All Progressives Congress(APC).

    Omoworare has also inaugurated a three-man team to handle mobilization in 30 local government areas of Osun State.

    During the declaration of intention, his supporters, including youth leaders, market and community heads, chieftains of APC, noted that Omoworare’s popularity can deliver victory for the party in 2026.

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    In his remarks, Omoworare lauded the inaugurated coordinating teams and other attendees for their overwhelming support as he reaffirmed his commitment to inclusive leadership and pledged to prioritize food sufficiency by reviving the state’s farm settlements, dams to boost irrigation, fish farming, and food exportation.

    He also appealed for a civil, issue-based mobilization, urging party members to avoid divisive rhetoric and instead work together as one united family. “I am a good product, I urge you all to focus on selling the vision we share for a greater Osun.”

  • Senator drums support for Buhari

    The senator representing Osun East, Babajide Omoworare, has urged Nigerians to have confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by re-electing him for a second term on Saturday.

    The senator said this is the most rational thing to do in the current circumstances.

    He noted that the combination of President Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osibajo is a divine arrangement, given the way they complement each other.

    “In spite of the overwhelming challenges inherited by this administration, you cannot question the integrity or intentions of Mr. President and his Vice in their attempt to clean the Augean stable,” Omoworare said.

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    He added: “Those who have held Nigerians hostage over time have demonstrated monstrous capacity and tenacity to fight back. It is only men with strength of character and deep conviction that can reverse the slide to impunity and corruption that have come to define public life during the years of the locust.”

  • Osun LG Election: Omoworare calls for votes for APC 

    Osun LG Election: Omoworare calls for votes for APC 

    The Senator representing Osun East (Ife/Ijesa) Senatorial District, Senator Babajide Omoworare has called on voters across the state especially in Ile-Ife and it’s environs to cast their vote for APC candidates in the forthcoming Local Government election in Osun State.

    The call was contained in a press statement issued in Ile-Ife by his media aide Comrade Tunde Dairo. He called on the people of Osun to vote APC candidates to replicate the giant strides of the APC government led by Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in their local communities.

    He appealed specifically to the people of Ile-Ife to cast their votes for the APC candidates. According to Omoworare, “with complete sense of humility, I call on all our people in all the electoral wards of Ifeland to vote enmasse for all APC candidates in the forthcoming elections.”

    Omoworare went further to appeal to the people saying that “this election offers us a unique opportunity to bring to fore our indisputable position as a politically sophisticated people capable of determining our destinies devoid of parochial or primordial sentiments.”

    He expressed optimism in the capacity of the voting zone to establish itself as political fortress of the ruling APC and enjoy more democratic dividends.

    “It is my fervent hope that rather than make a regressive movement, our  choosing APC candidates over other parties in the local government election of Saturday will prime us in taking our rightful place where we can enjoy to the fullest the dividends of democracy we have so laboured for,” Omoworare said.

  • Ife crisis: No reprisal attack in North -Kwankwanso

    Ife crisis: No reprisal attack in North -Kwankwanso

    Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso,(APC- Kano Central) on Tuesday  said there would be  no  reprisal attacks   against the Yoruba   living in the North following the crisis in Ile-Ife on March 8.

    Kwankwaso said this in Sabo area of Ile-Ife after meeting  with members of  the Hausa community inside a mosque.

    The former Kano State governor, who was in company with Gov. Rauf Aregbesola and  Sen.  Babajide Omoworare (APC-Osun East), told journalists   that he was in Osun  to promote peace and the rule of law.

    According to him, the Kwankwasiya Foundation will offer the victims of the crisis succour as from next week.

    He urged members of the Hausa community to resist the temptation to take laws into their hands and further  breach the peace gradually  returning to the affected area.

    Also speaking,   Gov. Rauf Aregbesola stressed the significance of peaceful co-existence in spite of the activities of the hoodlums which led to the incident.

    He said security agencies had arrested some suspects in connection with the crisis, adding that the perpetrators would face the full wrath of the law.

    Aregbesola further said that the state government would help set up a Peace and Reconciliation Committee with a view to finding a   permanent  solution  to the crisis.

    Receiving Kwankwaso  on behalf of  the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, the Obalufe of Ife kingdom,  Idowu Adediwura,  recalled  that Hausa  had   been living in Ife since 1894 without any fear of molestation.

    He attributed the incident to the activities of miscreants, saying Ife had been generally peaceful.

    The traditional ruler commended the efforts made by Kwankwanso toward  resolving the crisis while appealing to security agents to handle the issue with fairness and objectivity.

    “We are creatures of Almighty God, hence we are all citizens of the world and we abhor bloodletting in all its ramifications, ” he stated.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and its state’s counterpart had distributed some relief materials to the victims of the communal clash.

     

  • APC alleges plan by Omisore, PDP to implicate members

    APC alleges plan by Omisore, PDP to implicate members

    Political office holders from Ife Federal Constituency of Osun State have alleged plans by the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) governorship candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore, to plant guns in the homes, vehicles and properties of some All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders.

    At a press conference in Osogbo, the leader of the group, Senator Babajide Omoworare (Osun East District), alleged that the plan was to implicate them and get them detained before the August 9 poll.

    They accused Minister of State for Defence Musiliu Obanikoro and Minister of Police Affairs Jelili Adesiyan of planning to cause mayhem in the Southwest ahead of the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states.

    They alleged that the PDP and Omisore were planning to kit thugs, who they said are members of the Omisore Youth Support Forum (OYSF), in police uniforms and give them police/presidency official number plates, arms and ammunition.

    They alleged that the PDP was planning to use the thugs disguised as policemen to its advantage during the campaign and election.

    They also alleged that members of the Omisore Youth Support Forum had been mandated to kidnap APC members.

    The political office holders said: “The maturity of APC members should not be mistaken for cowardice, lethargy or timidity. We urge well meaning Nigerians to call all the characters to order and remind them of our indelible history that since the 19th Century, the Yoruba have strongly abhorred, resolutely resisted and staunchly repelled efforts to perpetrate injustice, rig elections, usurp power and enthrone unpopular governments within our geopolitical zone.

    “We assure Ife people that we will not relent in our efforts to sustain the current inestimable peace, political tranquility, infrastructural and unprecedented economic development, which is returning Ife land to its place of pride and prosperity.

    “We encourage indigenes and residents of Ife land alike to remain steadfast, watchful and unintimidated. We implore them to exercise their political rights, their constitutional obligations and civic responsibilities by coming out en-masse to vote, knowing that the volume of votes count a lot in policy and decision making.”

  • ‘Omisore can’t win ward election’

    ‘Omisore can’t win ward election’

    Osun State Commissioner for Special Duties and Regional Integration Ajibola Bashir has described Senator Iyiola Omisore’s statement that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win the governorship election as “an empty boast.”

    Bashir said Omisore cannot win election in his ward and local government, adding: “It amazes me when someone like Omisore, who lost in his ward and local government in 2007 and 2011, boasts that the PDP would capture Osun State.”

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) fixed August 9 for Osun State governorship election. Omisore assured his supporters while submitting his nomination paper for the PDP governorship ticket that if he was picked as the party’s flag bearer, he would dislodge All Progressives Congress (APC) from power.

    Bashir, who spoke to our correspondent, wondered why a person like Omisore who can’t win ward election now want to rule the state. “Someone who was rejected by his people at the ward and local government hoping to rule the state is a comedian”, he said.

    According to him, Omisore‘s first election as a senator in 2007 was declared null and void by the Appeal Court. In 2011, he was defeated by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate Senator Babajide Omoworare. Rather than challenge his victory at the tribunal, he said Omisore keep saying the election was rigged.

    “The one that went to the tribunal, I mean Wole Oke lost at election petition tribunal level and the Court of Appeal.” PDP can’t win any election in Osun State.

    “As a party, we are the party in control. We know they would engage in thuggery, unleash security operatives to harass and intimidate and to steal peoples mandate, our people are prepared to thwart their evil machinations. We don’t have any doubt that the government of Aregbe sola will continue beyond 2014.

    “We are prepared for the August 9 governorship election. We have delivered on our promises. In 2011, our people in Osun voted for APC. It is only in Osun that PDP lost presidential election in the Southwest”, he said.

    Reflecting on the success of APC membership registration exercise, Bashir said within 24 hours, 100 forms sent to each unit were exhausted. We have 3,010 registration units in the state. That is to say over 300,000 people were registered on the first day of the exercise.

    He said: “From the registration exercise, Osun State is a pace setter. The State of Osun has decided to go the way of APC.”

    According to him Governor Aregbesola has made the people to be the centre of development and stressed that in a democracy when people is the source of your strength, you don’t need any other strength again.

    “Human being is the focus of our development programme. The gamut of our development programme is about elevating the people. All our programmes are about the people”, he added.

     

  • Dignitaries honour Omoworare at mother’s burial

    The remains of Princess Teniade Areoye Omoworare, daughter of the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Adesoji Aderemi, and mother of Senator Babajide Omoworare, were yesterday laid to rest in Ile-Ife, Osun State.

    Amid eulogies, an order of requiem mass was done in her honour at the St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Lagere, Ile-Ife, where many prominent Nigerians, including the Senate President Mr. David Mark, were in attendance.

    In his sermon, the Bishop of Oyo Diocese, Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo, charged the country’s political leaders to resolve the issue of the strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) without further delay.

    He called on Nigerians to emulate the virtues of Princess Omoworare, who, he said, brought up her children in the fear of God after the death of her husband in 1986.

    Speaking briefly, Senator David Mark, urged Nigerians to always think about the unity, peace and progress of the nation.

    The deceased’s son, Senator Babajide Omoworare, expressed gratitude to dignitaries from far and near who honoured the family’s invitation to give his mother a befitting burial.

     

    At the church service were the former Chief of Staff, Gen. Alani Akirinade (retd), Chief John Odeyemi and wife, Senators Olorunnibe Mamora and his wife, Senators Ganiyu Solomon, Nurudeen Abatemi, Anthony Adeniyi, Sola Adeyeye and Mudashiru Hussein.