Browsing: Segun Dipe

I have no problem with Dr. Kolapo Olusola Eleka as a person. He is a brilliant chap. Until he was handpicked and dragged into politics by Governor Ayodele Fayose to be his deputy governor in Ekiti State, Eleka was an accomplished teacher in the Department of Building, Obafemi Awolowo University, Professionally, he is a Registered Builder. Religious-wise, he is an ordained Pastor in Christ Apostolic Church Worldwide.

The rhythm of the pestle hitting the mortar was a Sunday-Sunday affair. The cooked yam would soon give way to a succulently formidable Iyan after series of pounding at a regular frequency. Nobody cared about what part of Ekiti the other came from. We shared everything together. To us, Ekiti was one community, bonded, not bounded, just like the chopped yams that eventually transformed into one inseparable Iyan.

Fayose is an enemy of decent living or development. He rides on Okada to attend to official duties, he eats banana in the public, and he is ever wearing casual outfits to depict “simplicity.” He has warned his people not to expect any developmental structure, but to simply eat their fill. Fayose, the “hommie gov,” is not aspiring to an elite status, so why should anyone else?

Dipe recalled how the party lost the governorship election despite all the advantages at its disposal, how the loss disunited the members, how the party leadership failed to summon a post election review meeting to know what went wrong and how the members who were in disarray could not be rallied together. He said it was at that moment that the Action Group caucus came into the fray to boost dwindling morale of members

A statement by the Director of Publicity and Media of the APC in the state, Segun Dipe, urged the people of Ekiti State to be highly vigilant about the antics of the desperate politicians in the Labour Party, who would stop at nothing to cause unwarranted crisis and would want to divert attention away from their party while perpetrating the worst acts under the guise of being an underdog

A peep through the February 9 Birthday Horoscope revealed some interesting things about the making of John Kayode Fayemi. People born on such a natal day are independent and generous individuals with their unique and at times non-conformist perspective on life