NAN recalls that Oni was elected governor of Ekiti in April 2007 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, but was removed from office on October 15, 2010 following the judgment of an Appeal Court, which ruled against him.
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It said the attestation to Fayemi’s performance in the Mines and Steel Ministry to the growth of Nigeria’s economy is both historic and historical.
Among the products burnt were fake and substandard tyres, expired cereals, expired snacks, detergents, soaps, wine, soft drinks and fruit juices.
We are also glad that the CAN President acknowledged that Governor Fayose is respectable and qualified to contest for the President of Nigeria, and we appreciate the goodwill and prayers of CAN.
Padeola Aderibigbe, 81, hardly betrays the looks of his four scores. Still radiating some glimpses of his very active youthful years, his well honed delivery roused many participants who had become a bit dozy after a sumptuous lunch of pounded yam with vegetable soup. “I’m blessed with good health, I thank God for his grace”, he says with the gait of a man in his early 70s.
The Sector Commander in Ekiti, Ismailia Kugu, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ado-Ekiti.
Fayose, represented by the Deputy Governor, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, made the promise while addressing participants at the Capacity Building Training Workshop for Science Teachers at Egbeoba High School, Ikole-Ekiti.
Fayose said: “Specifically, on August 18, 2016, five Appeal Court justices in their judgment in the case of Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu Vs. Samson Ogah, said Justice Abang committed a rape on democracy!”
The body also advised the governor not to be distracted by people who have nothing good to offer the country.
In a statement in Ado-Ekiti by the Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the party said if the governor had applied the N57 billion loans he had taken according to the terms of their approvals, pensioners and workers would have received their monthly wages and pensions to enable them take care of their health needs.
This was disclosed on Tuesday night by the Special Adviser on Public Communications and New Media to Fayose, Lere Olayinka.
This is just as he gave security agencies in the state the marching order to fish out those involved in the killing of two students of the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti.
Governor Fayose had in a radio programme monitored in Lagos last week hinted on the possibility of retrenching about 3,500 workers in a bid to reduce the government’s monthly wages and financial burden of six months unpaid salaries to state workers and nine months to local government staff.
The NMA Chairman in Ekiti State, Dr Sunday Omoya, made this known at a news conference to round-off the 2017 Physicians’ Week and Ordinary General Meeting of the medical body.
Governor Fayose demanded for the immediate arrest and trial of Maina as well as the sack of all those who perpetrated his reinstatement, which he described as fraudulent and shameful.
Oni made this known at the inauguration of the 63 students of Ekiti State origin being sponsored by Segun Oni Campaign Organisation for scholarship to Brazil in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday.
While it is not clear if Fayemi is keen to do so having spoken about the unfinished business of the 2014 election in the state (in reference to the criminal role of security agencies in that election) and the determined effort of his party to seek judicial review of what has become popularly known as EkitiGate, there is a growing campaign on the part of some of his loyalists that regardless of the outcome of the judicial review, Ekiti State needs him to return to rescue her from years of ruin, pillage and pestilence. Even at that, opinion remains divided among political pundits between those who favour his return, as the most prominent and visible politician in APC who has been uncompromising in his opposition to the Peoples Democratic Party juggernaut in the state, and the one capable of rallying both local and national support to rout the incumbent, Governor Ayo Fayose, and those who believe he should stay above the fray and help to determine who gets the APC ticket in the state.
Fayose said: “The President has never hidden the fact that he is a sectional leader and painfully, because of his nepotism, religious bigotry and favouritism, Nigeria is now more divided than ever before, with the unity of the country being threatened.”
He said: “Our humble team is offering the people of our dear state a new social contract that will bring about massive human and capital as well as research development in hi-tech farming to spark agricultural revolution has never seen in the history of Ekiti in particular and Nigeria in general.
Both officials were picked up by the commission on September 28 and held for two weeks before their unconditional release.