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  • Lam, Fijabi’s sons pick APC tickets

    Son of former Oyo State Governor Lam Adesina, Adedapo, picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for the House of Representatives in yesterday’s primaries.

    Adedapo, who is the Commissioner for the Ministry of Industry, Applied Science and Technology, defeated other aspirants to pick the ticket for Ibadan North East/South East Federal Constituency. He polled 449 of the 610 votes cast.

    The lawmaker representing Ibadan North West/South West Constituency, Saheed Fijabi, also scored the highest votes to retain the ticket, he scored 180 votes to beat Kola Ajadi, who polled 179 votes.

    Umar Farouk, a son of the late business mogul, AbdulAzeez Arisekola-Alao, lost to the incumbent, Abiodun Awoleye.

    Awoleye polled 140 votes to beat Farouk who scored 114, Idris Lapade who scored 73, Amoo one, Adetona two and Esan six.

    In Lagelu/Akinyele Federal Constituency, a member of the State House of Assembly, Temitope Olatoye (aka Sugar) picked the ticket unopposed. So was Matthew Abioye who picked the ticket in Surulere/Ogo Oluwa Constituency unopposed.

    The Commissioner for Environment and Habitat, Jide Adewale, won the Oluyole Federal Constituency ticket. Sunday Adepoju defeated others to pick the ticket for Iddo/Ibarapa East.

    Son of the Alaafin of Oyo, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi has won the All Progressives Congress (APC)  House of Representatives primary in Oyo Federal Constituency.

    Adeniyi polled 708 votes to defeat the incumbent, Kamil Nudasiru Akinlabi, who scored 435.

    In Ogbomoso, Soun’s son, Barrister Oye Oyewunmi, defeated the three other contenstants in the APC House of Representatives primary held at the Ogbomoso stadium.

    Oyewunmi scored 240 votes to defeat the popular musician, Abolore Akande (aka 9ice), who polled nine votes.

    Election in Ogbomoso North was inconclusive due to disagreement on delegates list.

  • Lam Adesina’s son condemns UK Visa Bond Policy

    Dr. Ayo Lam Ade-sina, son of the former governor of Oyo State, the late Alhaji Lamidi Adesina, has condemned the visa regime proposed by the United Kingdom seeking to compel Nigerian visitors to deposit 3,000 pounds bond.

    Urging the government to take a reciprocal action against British citizens once it received a formal notification of the policy from the U.K. immigration authorities, Adesina, who is also a medical expert in the U.K, noted, “I know U.K has an issue with immigration policy and some countries like Greece, Romania, Spain, Georgia and others are rushing to U.K due to the economic recession over there. But if they want to regulate immigrants’ population, they should have spared this country because we have a lot we are benefitting from one another.”

    He appealed to the Senate to deploy necessary legislative action to ensure that Nigerian immigration authorities embark on action that is commensurate with the “obnoxious U.K. policy.”

    He also urged the Federal Government to find out the rationale for the policy, while admonishing Nigerians who planned to travel to the U.K. to seek for alternative destinations.

    “If the policy comes into effect, it is left for Nigerians also to begin to find alternative travel destinations,” he reiterated.

     

  • Lam Adesina’s son inaugurates foundation

    Lam Adesina’s son inaugurates foundation

    Dr. Ayobami Adesina, the eldest son of a former Oyo State Governor, the late Alhaji Lam Adesina, has inaugurated a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), the Ayo Lam Care Foundation, in memory of his father.

    The organisation will care for abandoned children and women.

    Adesina said the foundation would build on his father’s legacy of caring for the needy.

    He spoke yesterday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, while donating gifts to the Juvenile Correctional Institution and Child Care Unit, the Federation of Muslim Women’s Association in Nigeria (FOMWAN) Orphanage and the Care People’s Foundation Motherless Babies’ Home.

    The gifts included cartons of soap, cereals, detergent and writing materials.

    Adesina said: “This foundation has been established in Nigeria and abroad to support children’s education like our father did when he was alive. I have learnt from my father to support children and that is why we are donating these items to these children. This is why we are starting the Ayo-Lam Care Foundation today.”

    The officer in-charge of the Juvenile Correctional Institution and Child Care, Mrs. Jumoke Adesina, thanked Adesina and prayed God to bless him.

    Co-ordinator of the FOMWAN Orphanage Alhaja Airat Ogungbenro prayed God to grant repose to the soul of the late Adesina.

    She said the deceased was a great philanthropist and friend of the orphanage.

     

  • Adieu Lam and Adegbonmire

    Adieu Lam and Adegbonmire

    SIR: The death in quick succession of the Afenifere chieftains and ACN leaders, Alhaji Lam Adesina (Oyo) and now Chief Wumi Adegbonmire (Ondo) is a tragic loss to the cause of rapid political development of Yorubaland.

    The two notable political titans loomed large for upwards of five decades on the political horizon of Yorubaland were the trusted and formidable lieutenants of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo whose solid contributions to the political evolution of modern Nigeria remains equaled in the annals of the nation’s history.

    The rate at which the rank of generation of committed and highly dedicated politicians are being depleted by old age ailments culminating into outright sudden death is worrisome and ominous.

    In the turbulent First Republic politics and the military interregnum, Lam Adesina and Wumi Adegbonmire kept alive intrepid and combatant columns in the media. Lam wrote under the title “the search continues” and Adegbonmire a.k.a Omo-Ekun, coined the cognomen of his illustrious native Akure country home.

    They were prolific, pungent, vigorous and never-say-die writers; venting their spleen against the excesses of brutal military dictatorship, and reign of megalomania foisted on the nation.

    They put their lives on the line damning the dire consequences of detention without trial and its concomitant intimidations, harassments by the maximum power-that-were. Thus, they relentlessly defended with every pint of their blood, the cause of Awoism, a political creed adroitly articulated and christened by indefatigable Awo as ‘democratic socialism’ as practical solution to the multi-faceted and complex problems staring the nation on the face.

    It is years since the transition of the political legend, Awolowo. Yet the country still gropes in the dark and in the vicious circle of economic woe and political maladministration, courtesy of the political venality and debauchery holding sway in the corridor of power. It is irony of fate that the toiling masses are transfixed by poverty in the midst of abundant natural and human endowment. I deeply mourn the demise of Chief Adegbonmire. He was a great fighter. He aptly lived to his billing ‘as bold as a tiger’ and never relented in fighting to finish the conservatives that held Yoruba race hostage until he breathed his last. He got to the pinnacle of his political career as a member of the national working executives of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), the best organized political party in the Second Republic.

    As a frontline politician, grassroots mobiliser and community leader, he was installed Asiwaju (Leader) of Akure kingdom by the paramount ruler of Akure, Deji of Akure. As Omo-Ekun joined his leader Awo in the world beyond, the question on the lips of everyone is when cometh another?

    May the doughty souls of Omo-Ekun and The search continues have repose with their creator,

     

    • Ayodele Fagbohun

    Akure, Ondo State

  • ‘How Lam prevented another civil war’

    ‘How Lam prevented another civil war’

    • Ex-CPS recalls the late gov’s encounter with Buhari

     

    But for the maturity and wisdom of the late former Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lam Adesina, Nigeria could have been plunged into a second civil war.

    A former Chief Press Secretary to the late Governor, Chief Kehinde Olaosebikan, yesterday said in Abuja that a conflict between Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani would have thrown the country into another war.

    He told our correspondent that a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, had led a combative delegation of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to meet Adesina in 2000 in his office.

    According to him, “Precisely on the 13th of October, 2000, former military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, in company with former Military administrator of Lagos State, General Buba Marwa, had led a heavy team of Arewa Consultative Forum in a combative mood to the office of the governor in protest against the alleged killings of over 69 Fulani cattle herders in Saki Area of the state.

    “General Buhari whose arrival to the Secretariat complex was preceded by scores of lorry loads of Hausa men and boys said pointedly at the executive council chambers of Oyo State that his team came to meet the governor to seek reasons why the people of Saki should not be dealt with for killing Fulani herdsmen. He did not stop at that, Gen Buhari accused Governor Lam Adesina of complicity in the killings and using his position as governor to pervert justice.

    He quoted the former Head of State as accusing the former governor of shielding the culprits. According to the General, they therefore wanted immediate stoppage of the killings, justice and compensation for the mass killings of the Fulanis or vengeance across the country.

    Olaosebikan added: “As weighty, indicting and provocative as the General’s allegations were against the governor, Alhaji Lam Adesina remained unperturbed as he only fired back with his own well-coordinated arsenals in form of refined strategy, robust explanations and effective engagements.

    “Lam Adesina identified all the points raised by the General and simply asked the heads of the organisations directly involved to respond.”

    He quoted Lam Adesina as saying: “ Before I thank you for this visit, you have come to tell me something, I also want to tell you something and that something is to make an appeal. General Buhari has been a former Head of State, Brigadier Marwa has governed Lagos for some time and with credibility… so you are national leaders of this country. Even though, by accident of birth, you are from the North, so you can be born anywhere, may be next time when I am coming to the world I will be born in the North or the South South.’

    He attributed the manner in which frayed nerves calmed to the level-headedness of the late governor, thus preventing what could have led to another civil war.