Sango said on Tuesday in Jos: “The governor wants political activities to kick off; winning the presidency requires long time planning and the governor appears disappointed with the silence in the PDP camp. That is why he has offered himself for the job.”
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Chief Babalola made the call on Tuesday while delivering the keynote address at the 32nd Conference of the Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, hosted by the Kwara State University, Malete.
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.
Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), the organiser of Afe Babalola Agricultural Exhibition, code named: “ABA-EX 2017,” gave the prize to the winner on Sunday at the closing of the exhibition at the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti.
The report, by an anonymous writer in the online publication, had claimed that Fayemi at the weekend held a meeting with the All Progressives Congress leaders at his Isan-Ekiti country home where he allegedly lampooned the success of Ekiti State in the last National Examination Council exams.
The governor, who said he needed no help from INEC or any agency of the government for the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party to win the election, urged INEC and the Federal Government agencies not to provide help for other contestants.
The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Voter Education and Publicity, Prince Solomon Soyebi, disclosed this while reading the timetables and schedule of activities for the elections on Thursday in Abuja.
The Ekiti State Commissioner for Finance, Toyin Ojo, and the Accountant General of the State, Yemisi Owolabi, were on Thursday arrested by the operatives of the EFCC over alleged misapplication of resources that accrued to the state government.
The Labour leaders described the allegation that the Bailout Fund given to the state last year was misappropriated as frivolous and unfounded.
Specifically, Kashamu urged the national leadership of the party, comprising of the National Caretaker Committee and the National Executive Committee, to sanction Fayose for going against the party’s zoning arrangement.
The Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, said Fayose, in a letter addressed to leaders of the PDP, told them that his ambition to be president was without prejudice to the party’s position, but in the overall interest of the party and Nigeria.
One of the beneficiaries, Eniola Awe, a fashion designer, who expressed her joy during the cheque presentation ceremony, said: “l am highly delighted to be among the beneficiaries.
The governor, who was reacting to statement by the National Bureau of Statistics that the state government is owing N85.04 billion as local debts, said Fayemi left the state in an insolvent position.
The Police Prosecutor, Sergeant Monica Ikebulo, told the court that the accused committed the offence on September 11 at Irona Street, Ado-Ekiti.
The party said the governor’s counsel in his press release at the weekend urging dialogue in the resolution of the Biafran crisis is an afterthought after the Nigerian Army swung into action to perform their constitutional role of preserving the unity of Nigeria and bringing all secessionists and their backers to justice.
Fayose also stated that he will continue to speak out against injustice meted out to anybody or group in any part of the country.
Fayose said that the state would continue to lead in external public examinations as he would not relent until it was fully restored to its days of glory in the education.
Fayose said: “I have said it before now that it is only God that can help the Ibo people. What I see going on the South-east is ethnic cleansing when you see the video clips of that occupation, the behaviour of the soldiers, leaves much to be desired but they cannot act like that without a whistle blower, somebody is behind them telling them go and cleanse the people.
Fifty-year-old Kayode, a resident of Ado-Ekiti, told the court that Mojisola also regularly disgraced him in public, including in the palace of the Ewi of Ado.
Speaking at the event which took place at Emure-Ekiti, the headquarters of Emure Local Government Area of the state, the vibrant Araoye said he had started the initiative code-named Makinde Araoye Social Security Scheme in his Ilawe-Ekiti country home since 2011 but decided to extend the tentacle to the six local government areas in his senatorial district now as a way of ameliorating the sufferings of the underprivileged senior citizens in his area.