Raji said: “We still have 215,000 PVCs that are yet to be claimed by the electorate, few months to the governorship election, despite our sensitization programmes.
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Its Chairman, Ayodeji Ogunsakin, gave the advice during a programme tagged “Football for Peace” organised by SWAN for football fans in Ado-Ekiti.
The governor said: “For a President that was elected because he promised to fight corruption and clear the Northeast of the Boko Haram insurgents within three months, the signs that he must take a bow and return home are clear even more than crystal.”
Olumilua, who is contesting on the platform of All Progressives Congress, made his position known in an exclusive chat on Friday.
In a recent development, party chieftains of Accord party, All Progressives Grand Alliance and Labour Party have pledged unalloyed support to Adewale for the election.
Fayose, at a meeting with the leaders of the community, however, appealed to the people of Ipao to ensure that there were no reprisal killings.
He made the pledge on Tuesday at an interactive session tagged: “My Agenda” under the auspices of the Ekiti Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Ado-Ekiti.
Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, who was the Acting President, then represented President Buhari at the burial where he announced the decision of the Federal Government to rename the Federal University, Oye Ekiti as Adeyinka Adebayo University in recognition of the exemplary leadership of the late hero and frontline Statesman.
State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Jackson Adebayo, made this know while reacting to comment by the APC Deputy Chairman, Chief Kemi Olaleye that States Anti-Grazing Law pioneered by the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, and farmers should be blamed for killings by Fulani herdsmen.
Dokun Babarinde, the National Vice Chairman of Accord Party in Southwest, made the declaration on Wednesday in a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria after its zonal meeting in Ibadan.
Ajayi, who served as Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning under former Governor Kayode Fayemi, made the plea in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos.
In an ideal situation, politics is a field for people who are already personally and professionally accomplished and are thus not inclined to derive their sense of purpose, worth and self-esteem from transient positions. As a result, such individuals can leave office as gracefully and as unobtrusively as they entered it. In reality, such unaffected personalities, while they actually do exist in our space, are rarities and outliers. One such rarity is Otunba Richard Adeniyi Adebayo, my Egbon, leader and predecessor in office and a man that I have been privileged to know as a friend, ally, mentor and confidante, and whose 60th birthday today necessitates this tribute from me.
President Buhari in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina in Abuja on Saturday, felicitated with the family and friends of the APC chieftain on the joyous day.
When I said that I won’t leave office as a debtor of salary, going by the efforts I have made, I was sure that the over N12 billion owed the State by the federal government on construction and rehabilitation of federal roads will be paid to Ekiti like other states this month.
Later, Okeowo swore to an affidavit recanting his earlier claim, explaining that Fayose’s media aide, Lere Olayinka, tore his true statement and personally wrote another statement implicating APC members and coerced him to submit the false statement to the police implicating innocent people.
Speaking on Tuesday with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, he commended the interventions of both states and federal government in nipping the crisis in the bud.
The Chairman of the State Teaching Service Commission, Chief Abiodun Falayi, on Sunday told NAN in Ado Ekiti that the exercise was based on merit.
The governor also donated 300 laptop computers to them and singling out an outstanding graduate of English from Obafemi Awolowo University, 25-year-old Fajana Olabisi Motinoluwa from Ekiti East Local Area of the state, who had also won gold medal for the state in Essay competitions, the governor promised her a scholarship for Masters degree programme and a government job after completion.
It said neither Governor Ayo Fayose nor his government had the constitutional powers to ban him from holding political office, either in Ekiti or any part of Nigeria.
According to the White Paper from the Commission’s recommendations, Fayemi was banned for 10 years from holding any public office in Ekiti state and is to refund N2.75 billion.