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  • Youths plan mega rally for Ambode’s re-election

    Youths under the aegis of Lagos Youth Initiative have called on residents of the state to support the second term ambition of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode by being part of a mega rally slated for 31st of March, 2018. Addressing a press conference during the week, chairman of the group, Sofuwan Temitope Ogungbo, said Ambode deserves a second term for his developmental efforts in the state.

    He explained that since the governor came to power, over one million people, majorly youths, had been employed as teachers, neighbourhood corps officers, traffic officers, and cleaners across the 20 local government areas and 37 local council development areas in the state. He said, “when you talk of achievement, even the blind in Lagos can see what Governor Ambode has done in less than three years, which cuts across every sector of the economy.”

    The march, according to the youth leader, would start from Maryland to Freedom Park in Ojota. Speaking further on the endorsement, Adele Abdul-Hakeem, vice chairman of the group who is also the chairman of the one million-man march committee, said the achievement of Ambode was monumental hence the youth had no option but to tell him to continue for another four-year term.

     

  • Buhari, Osinbajo, Oyegun, others for Abia mega rally

    Buhari, Osinbajo, Oyegun, others for Abia mega rally

    • To receive ex- Gov Kalu, Wabara, Wogu, others into APC

    President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would lead other members of the party’s National Executive Committee to Umuahia, the Abia State capital on Tuesday for a mega rally.

    The publicity secretary of the party in the state, Ben Godson told journalists at the party’s secretariat in Umuahia that the coming of the President was a landmark, stressing that the visit would further boost the preparation of the party towards unseating the PDP led administration in the state in 2019.

    He disclosed that the coming of President Buhari would attract leaders of the party from the Southeast including the chairman of Governors’ Forum and Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, former Senate President, Senator Ken Nnamani, former Governor of old Anambra State, Chief Jim Nwobodo, ministers from the Southeast, immediate past governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, immediate past governor of Ebonyi State, Martin Elechi among other APC stalwarts in the country in general.

    He also added that members of other political parties that defected to the party like former Governor of the state from 1999-2007, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, PDP 2015 Governorship aspirant, Dr. Sampson Uche Ogah, former Managing Director of defunct Hallmark Bank, Sir. Marc Wabara, Emeka Wogu; former Labour Minister, Senator Bob Nwanunu, General Ogbonnaya Okoro (rtd), Chinenye Ike, former House of Rep member etc would be formally presented to the public during the president’s visit.

    On zoning of gubernatorial candidate, he said “we don’t have candidates and we can’t have an anointed candidate; our gubernatorial candidate can emerge from any part of the state. We believe that there are some persons with gubernatorial ambitions and they have not made it open to us.

    “We are not zoning the governorship slot. It is open. We want a credible person to emerge. We need change in the state. We need a credible and reliable person who can change the life of Abians and develop Abia, it doesn’t matter the part of Abia the person is coming from. APC is desirous of change and ensuring that Abia is developed. We want Abians to feel governance.”

    He used the opportunity to reaffirm the support of the party members to Donatus Nwankpa’s led executive in the state Ben Godson, the APC Publicity Secretary Abia State chapter and thanked President Buhari for including the names of the party members from the state in the list of recent appointments into boards and agencies by the federal government.

     

  • Mega Rally for candidate

    Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will today converge on Ojokoro Local Council Development Area (LCDA) in Lagos State for a mega rally to round off the campaign for the election of Hammed Idowu Tijani.

    Tijani, a former Supervisory Councillor, is favoured to win.

    Among those expected at the rally are House of Assembly member Rasheed Makinde, party leaders and elders.

    “HID is poised to win going by the support we have received from the house to house and street to street campaign that we have mounted,” Gbenga Falegan, a former councillor and one of those leading the campaign, said.

  • NLC mobilises workers for ‘mega rally’ in Ibadan today

    •Oyo SDP wades into labour/govt dispute

    THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) will hold “a mega rally” today in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, to drive home workers’ demands.

    Its National Deputy President, Kiri Mohammed Shuaibu, said this yesterday while addressing the union’s members at the NLC Secretariat in Ibadan.

    The workers embarked on an indefinite strike a week ago to demand the immediate withdrawal of “trump-up charges” levelled against some incarcerated labour leaders and to force the state government to rescind its decision to sell public schools, among others.

    The union leader, who vowed that no amount of intimidation from the government would make them to call off the strike without getting their demands, urged workers to assemble at the secretariat by 7:30am today.

    He said: “We are civil servants. We don’t have anything to fight. We are fighting because we are hungry. We are fighting because we have not been paid for six months. We don’t have the strength or the ability to fight because we are hungry. We have not been paid for the past six months. We just want to show government that we are poor and hungry.

    “We wrote a letter to the government requesting for dialogue, but the government shut its doors against NLC. We are now open for dialogue and negotiation. We have no arms. We don’t carry anything. If the police, Directorate of State Service (DSS) and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Oyo State cannot protect our lives while doing our legitimate peaceful protest, it is going to be a story in the world.”

    Warning against violence during the rally, he said any sponsored hoodlums, who may attempt to disrupt the rally, would be arrested.

    A political party in Oyo State, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), yesterday waded into the labour and the government crisis.

    The party appealed to Governor Abiola Ajimobi to thread gently over the proposed new education policy in the interest of the poor masses and the children.

    It called on the governor, to as a matter of public concern, explore available means to settle the dispute.

     

     

     

    It appealed to the labour leaders to embrace dialogue in the interest of the children.

    In a statement issued the party’s spokesman, Alhaji Akeem Azeez described the move by the governor as a subtle privatisation of state public secondary schools.

    It maintained that the policy was “ill-conceived, illegal and unconstitutional” and capable of “destroying today’s hope of a greater tomorrow”.

     

     

    The party, which urged the governor to perish the thought, drew inference from one of the quotable quotes of Archbishop Desmond Tutu: “If you are neutral in a situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”.

    The party noted that the proposed Private Public Partnership initiative in Oyo State public schools is a preamble to the outright sales of government schools to capitalists and affluence in the society.

  • Osun APC mega rally holds today

    Osun APC mega rally holds today

    The campaign mega rally for the re-election of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osogbo Federal Constituency will hold tomorrow Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State.

    A statement by the Chairman and Secretary of the Aregbesola Campaign Committee for the federal constituency, Senator Bayo Salami and Barr. Kolapo Alimi, respectively said the event would double as the Osogbo Federal Constituency and the State Mega Rally.

    According to the statement, the rally will hold at the Osogbo City Stadium by 10 am.

    The Peoples Democratic Party held its mega rally last Saturday at the same venue with President Goodluck Jonathan, his vice, Arch. Namadi Sambo, the party national leadership and other chieftains in attendance.

    The national leaders of the All Progressives Congress, including the Chairman, John Oyegun, Chief Bisi Akande, Gen Muhamodu Buhari, Senator Bola Amed Tinubu, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Mallam Nuru Ribadu.

    All the governors of the APC, including Rotimi Amechi of Rivers State, Raji Fashola of Lagos State and Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State are expected at the mega rally.

    The Osogbo/Olorunda/Orolu/Irepodun federal constituency mega rally would be the final campaign outing of the All Progressives Congress and Ogbeni Aregbesola.

  • Tinubu, Akeredolu, ACN governors storm Ondo for mega rally

    Tinubu, Akeredolu, ACN governors storm Ondo for mega rally

    All is now set for the gubernatorial rallies of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) ahead of next month’s governorship election.

    Expected at the three –day rallies starting on Tuesday in Ikare- Akoko in the Ondo North senatorial district are the party’s chieftains such as the National Chair, Chief Bisi Akande, National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Segun Osoba; Otunba Niyi Adebayo; Chief Lam Adesina and all the governors of the six ACN controlled states.

    The campaign train will move to Ondo in the Central senatorial district on Wednesday and Ore, and move to the South senatorial district on Thursday.

    The Redemption rallies, as they are called, will afford the leaders of the party to present the ACN candidate, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), to the people, and shed light on why the state should join the rest of the South West in the development train of regional integration.

    Besides, they will speak on how Governor Olusegun Mimiko has wasted the N660 billion that has accrued to the state during his tenure.

    The numerous abandoned projects include the Doom-dome, Ondo road dualisation, Owo road dualisation, Arakale road dualisation, Arigidi Tomato paste factory, Owena Multipurpose dam, Alpha D factory.