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  • APC wins 4 out of 9 reps declared in Ogun

    The All Progressives Congress ( APC ) has clinched three more House of Representatives seats in Ogun, winning all four so far declared out of nine federal constituencies in the state.

    Olumide Osoba (APC) won Abeokuta North/ Odeda/Obafemi Owode, Lanre Edun (APC) won Abeokuta South, while Korede Osunsanya, also of APC, was declared winner of Ijebu-Ode/Ijebu-North/Odogbolu federal constituency.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the APC had earlier been declared winner of Ado – Odo/Ota Federal Constituency’s seat in Ogun.

    Olumide, son of a former governor of the state and chieftain of APC, Chief Segun Osoba, polled a total of 33, 538 votes to defeat the incumbent, Mikhail Kazeem of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), who scored 14,903 votes.

    The result was announced by the Returning Officer, Prof. Ismaila Salami, at Unity High School Collation Centre, Ago- Ika, Abeokuta.

    At the Centenary Hall collation centre for the Abeokuta-South federal constituency, the Returning Officer, Prof. Bameke Oyedele, declared APC’s Edun as winner, having polled a total of 17,003 votes.

    He defeated his closest rival, Mr Segun Sowunmi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored a total of 8,608 votes.

    Similarly, Prof. Michael Ozoje, the Returning Officer at Ijebu-Ode Local Government Collation Centre, declared Osunsanya as winner of Ijebu-Ode/Ijebu North-East/Odogbolu seat with a total of 25,608 votes.

    Mr Taiwo Shote, the PDP candidate who came closest to Osunsanya, scored total votes of 21,775.

    Results of the polls for the five remaining federal constituency seats were being awaited as at the filing of this report.

  • Losers should bow out gracefully – Obasanjo

    Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised would-be losers in the ongoing Presidential and National Assembly elections to concede defeats.

    Obasanjo who voted at ward 11, polling unit 22, Abeokuta around 11: 04am, said there would definitely be winners and losers.

    But he urged contestants to embrace the spirit of sportsmanship.

    According to him: “Winners to show spirit of magnanimity while losers should also bow out gracefully.”

    On his assessment of the exercise, he said: “I believe in my own polling station, there was a small delay, the material arrived late for about two hours which can be accommodated, other than that, the process went smoothly.

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    “I went through the card reader with my PVC and my photograph appeared then we had a bit of problem sorting out my thumb print and then when they were about to sort it out, they made me go through the process of voting, they gave the ballot paper for the Presidential, Senatorial and the House of Representatives.

    “It was very orderly even though there are many people waiting, waiting either to cast their votes or waiting to welcome me because now I vote in my own compound where I was born.”

    He added: “In any competition there will always the winners and losers. What anybody in any competition must be prepared for as a good sportsman is to have the mind that says if I win, I show magnanimity, if I lose, I will also bow out graciously.

    “That is what any competition is all about. You can’t say if you are going into any competition, you must win at all cost then it is no longer a competition.”

  • INEC officials, materials not available at Obasanjo Polling Unit

    Two hours into the commencement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections, former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s ward designated as Ward 11 unit 22, within Olusomi compound, Abeokuta, in Abeokuta North Local Government Area of Ogun State, is yet to commence.

    Although voters had turned up in fairly large number, there were no officials from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) or election materials on ground save the Operatives of the  Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC).

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    Also, Obasanjo to had not yet arrived his ward or polling  station, perhaps because of unavailability of the  INEC personnel to attend to the anxious would – be – voters.

  • Ogun APC chief: no ballot papers found in my house

    A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State, Otunba Babatunde Onakoya, has said no thumb-printed ballot papers were found in his house in Ijebu-Ode.

    Onakoya said neither him nor his son, who is the Chairman of Leguru Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Ololade Onakoya, was being investigated by security agencies in connection with this year’s general elections or any other matter.

    The board member of Benin/Owena River Basin Authority addressed reporters yesterday in Ijebu-Ode while reacting to “fake news” that he and his son were involved in thumb-printed ballot papers.

    The APC chieftain said the Chairman of Odogbolu Local Government Area, Wale Shittu, was also not being investigated for any criminal activity.

    He described the allegation as baseless, fake and unfounded.

    Onakoya said the rumour was being carried by those he said were threatened by his support for President Muhammadu Buhari.

    The APC stalwart also dismissed the allegation as “tissues of lies and a good example of fake news concocted by enemies of democracy”.

    He said: “I have never engaged in any acts of brigandage in the name of politics and will never do.

    “I strongly suspect that this is the handiwork of those who are feeling threatened by our total commitment to ensure that President Buhari coasts home to victory on Saturday.

    “We are pushing for this within the ambit of the law and we shall not be intimidated by anybody or a group of people that wants to return us to era of wastes and stinking corruption.”

    Onakoya said his attention was drawn to the rumour yesterday, adding that he discovered that some people attempted to destruction of his hard-earned reputation and dignity of his family because of his unrepentant commitment to actualising President Buhari’s second term ambition in tomorrow’s poll.

     

  • Amosun working against Buhari – APC

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State has accused Governor Ibikunle Amosun of discreetly working to undermine President Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential and National Assembly elections rescheduled for Saturday.

    In a statement on Thursday in Abeokuta by Publicity Secretary of Ogun State APC Caretaker Committee, Tunde Oladunjoye, the party alleged Amosun was to reduce the margin of the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in Ogun East and Ogun West Senatorial Districts in a vainglorious attempt to send a wrong signal of his popularity in Ogun State and undermine the Vice President.

    The statement reads: “We have at our disposal, confirmed intelligence reports that Governor Amosun has been holding nocturnal and clandestine meetings in the last three weeks with a failed governorship Aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) whose father is a renowned betting agent.

    “The purpose of the meetings is to work against APC at the Presidential and National Assembly elections.

    “The objective, for which the governor distributed the sum of N200, 000 per polling booth last week, before the postponed elections, was to ensure that President Buhari loses the election or to drastically reduce the margin of his victory in the two Senatorial districts, especially in Ogun East, where the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, hails from.

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    “It would be recalled that the failed governorship aspirant recently, without any justification whatsoever, took to the mass media to disparage the Vice President, blaming him for his woes arising from the loss of the PDP’s governorship ticket, only for the same aspirant to turn around few days after to contradict himself with a boast that INEC would soon name him as his party’s candidate”.

    The party added: “Governor Amosun is insisting on the posting away of some corps members in Ogun West Senatorial District where he is sponsoring an APM candidate against his former Chief of Staff, Chief Olu Odebiyi, who is of the APC.

    “The party is using this medium to ask the Presidency to tame Governor Amosun before he sets Ogun State on fire over his egoistic and moribund self-preserving ambition.”

     

  • Ijebu monarchs: Kashamu is our beloved son

    Traditional rulers in Ijebu land have described the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Senator Buruji Kashamu, as a beloved son of Ijebu land.

    Two monarchs – the Lamodi of Ijebu-Isiwo, His Royal Highness, Oba Sikiru Adedoyin and the Aladeken of Oke-Ako in Ijebu-Ode Local Government Area, His Royal Highness, Oba Joshua Osunsami (J.P) – spoke when Kashamu visited them at their palaces.

    They hailed the senator for his foresight to put key policies and programmes in an undertaking, which he has been giving to traditional rulers across the state.

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    In the undertaking, which he elaborated on, Kashamu promised to allow local governments to enjoy full financial autonomy without deducting from their monthly allocations.

    This, he said, would engender grassroots developments.

    The senator also committed himself to addressing the issues of cooperative deductions and contributory pensions without a view to allowing the will of the workers to prevail.

    The PDP candidate also said Micro Small Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMSEs) would be encouraged to thrive through the facilitation of microfinance and community banks that would advance revolving facilities to entrepreneurs at zero interest rate.

  • Winners emerge at Maths contest

    Ten-year-old Madumere Rejoice Ngozi, has emerged winner in the 2019 The Ultimate Mathematics Ambassador (TUMA) competition, Ota, Ogun State.

    Ngozi, a pupil of Giant Stride Nursery and Primary School, Ifo, competed with over 1,200 others from 408 schools in Ogun State and other neighbouring states.

    With a staggering 93 per cent, Ngozi beat nine-year-old Enwere Kingsley Ikenna of Cuddly Kids School and 10-year-old Oyindamola Olawale Hann of Vickstell International School, Ikorodu who both emerged first and second runners up respectively.

    Ngozi was presented with a N500, 000 cash and a plaque. Her teacher Mr Moses Issa, went home with N150, 000 and a plaque, while her school was given a laptop, printer, textbooks and a plaque.  Kingsley received N300, 000 and a plaque. His teacher Kehinde Mukadaz was also presented with N100, 000 and a plaque; while the school was given a laptop, textbooks and a plaque. Third place Olawale was handed N200, 000 and a plaque, her teacher Mr Edeh Anayo Samuel got N75, 000 and a plaque while her school got a printer, textbooks and a plaque.

    Others who emerged fourth to 10th positions were presented with N50, 000 cash prize and N25,000.00 for their teachers.  Contestants between 11th to 15th positions went home with prizes.

    The Ambassadors Schools, organiser of the event, said TUMA was birthed to address children’s phobia for mathematics.

    Speaking during the event, chairman Ambassadors Schools, Ota Samson Yomi Osewa, said this  of the competition: “We know that many children today have phobia for mathematics. This school has excelled in mathematics competitions especially national competition.  We are therefore grateful that these organisers have sown into our lives. We then decided that for our sociaresponsibility, we should run mathematics competition in primary school to prepare pupils ahead of their secondary education. This, we believe,  will remove the phobia of mathematics.

    Osewa recalled that at TUMA’s maiden edition, the highest marks scored was 63. Nonetheless, he is happy that it skyrocketed to 93 per cent this year, with more schools participating.

    Osewa said the school, as the organiser, has been magnanimous enough by ensuring 50 of the participants are encouraged via gift presentation.

    “We give prizes to as many as the top 50 that participated in the competition to encourage them. Anybody who does not get a prize will not want to come again; that is why we decided that let everyone get something modest for their effort including their teachers. It will also encourage pupils to study harder in mathematics.”

    Earlier guest speaker and a professor of Chemistry, Odebunmi Ezekiel, described Mathematics as the bedrock of national development.

    He lamented that students performance in mathematics in Nigeria in recent times have hit an all-time low.

    He said: “The major reason why performance in mathematics has gone down is phobia. This can be caused by learning environment, which doesn’t encourage the teaching and learning of mathematics. The teacher factor is another reason. Some of the mathematics teachers are themselves not students of mathematics; they are just doing it without loving the subject. Some of them who know it don’t know how to teach it in a way that students will understand.

    ‘’The last one is the fact that many of the textbooks we have in the market are not reader-friendly at all because of the way they present the concept and the type of questions they ask the students.”

  • Ogun PDP candidate Kashamu to fix Ota roads, others

    The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Senator Buruji Kashamu, has promised to fix the roads and other infrastructure in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area and its environs.

    Kashamu made the promise yesterday when he visited the Olota-in-Council, the Council of Baales and Chiefs, the League of Imams and Alfas, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), the Hausa community, the Igbo community, the traditionalists, artisans and market men and women in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area.

    The Olota of Ota, His Royal Majesty, Oba (Prof.) Adeyemi Abdulkabir Obalanlege (Ekun II), led other traditional rulers in Awori land to receive the governorship candidate.

    At the various fora, Kashamu said the welfare of the people would be his priority, if elected.

    “I am committed to completing all the uncompleted and ongoing projects in Ogun West Senatorial District and other parts of the state. Our government will be tax-friendly and encourage more businesses to thrive.

    “I reckon that our people are in need of basic infrastructure, such as potable water, good and motorable roads in most parts of the state. All of these and many more will be done, if you vote the PDP on February 23 and March 9,” Kashamu said.

    The senator highlighted some of his policies, if elected, saying: “One, I commit to releasing all allocations due to local governments; I will not deduct from their allocations. This is to ensure grassroots development and allow the traditional institution to be involved in local government administration.

    “Two, I also commit to remitting all statutory deductions from workers’ salaries to the relevant unions and authorities as and when due.”

    To address poverty and stomach infrastructure, Kashamu said: “Substantial funds shall be set aside to assist the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Loans from the funds shall attract no interest.”

     

     

  • Don’t vote against Amosun, Osoba begs

    Former Ogun State Governor Olusegun Osoba has asked members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to put behind attacks on the party’s campaign rally in the state and ensure victory for all candidates of the party, including Governor Ibikunle Amosun.

    Suspected political thugs believed to have been hired by a party attacked the APC campaign rally in Abeokuta, pelting some dignitaries including President Muhammadu Buhari with stones.

    Amosun, who is APC candidate for Ogun Central, backs the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) governorship candidate, Adekunle Akinlade to succeed him against APC’s Dapo Abiodun.

    Osoba, who lamented no arrest has been made over the incident till date, said he has told supporters in the state to leave vengeance to God and vote for all APC candidates.

    He said: “Yesterday, I told stakeholders in Ogun state that on no account should anybody vote against Amosun as a person.

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    “A governor is a governor and he will be in office till May 29. So, why are we worrying ourselves?

    ‘Amosun is just an individual. I still respect him as my governor up to May 29 this year and will not do anything to undermine him as governor.

    “I was governor twice. I told our people that vengeance is not ours and that nobody should go for vengeance.

    “Amosun is just a person but the office of the governor deserves respect and I give respect to that office.”

    He added: “Ogun state is first in several areas. The leaders of the progressives in this country are from that state and it is the home state of the Vice President.

    “I told the President that I apologised to him and that uptill today, nobody has been arrested. I see that as a failure on the part of some elements of the security agencies.

    “Actually, the bulk of APC in Ogun state, we are one family and instruction has gone out that despite what has happened, we should vote for APC candidates at all levels and when the result is out, it should reflect that.

    “At least we should respect the Vice President, who is busy preaching welfarism for the downtrodden and I am sure that appropriate action will be taken on that issue later.

  • Eight killed, others injured in Ogun road accident

    A road accident on Sunday has left eight persons dead while two others, including an expectant mother and toddler,  were  injured.
    The accident  occurred at Ewekoro, opposite the Police Post, along the Lagos – Abeokuta expressway, and involved a Toyota Corrola sport car marked AKD 649 FP which rammed into a parked truck by the roadside.
    The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), Babatunde Akinbiyi, who confirmed the accident attributed the cause to “over speeding and lost of control.”

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    Akinbiyi said 10 persons – four males, four females and two kids were inside the car at the time of the accident, adding that a pregnant woman and a kid were injured in the process while eight lives were lost.
    He added that the remains of the dead were kept at the  morgue of the State General hospital, Ifo.
    Akinbiyi stated: “the driver who is suspected to be drunk and  over speeding, lost control of the vehicle and rammed into a stationery trailer parked along the road, killing eight persons inside the vehicle.
    “Though the driver of the parked trailer was not in the truck when the accident happened, he reported himself and  has been arrested by the Operatives of the  Ewekoro Divisional Police Headquarters.
    “The pregnant woman among the survivors has been referred to the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta for treatment.
    “While TRACE Corps commiserate with the family of the dead, drivers are once again admonished to avoid over speeding, overloading and drunk driving. In the same vein, indiscriminate parking of vehicles on the traffic corridor with reckless abandonment will no longer be tolerated.”