So also did the position affect the outcome of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up last year by Ajimobi, which eventually reviewed the 1957 Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration and other Related Chieftaincies laws in Ibadanland, leading to the controversial installation of 21 crown-wearing Obas in Ibadanland
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The Minister’s ambition, the party said, has robbed him of the capacity to see other people’s views
Osinbajo made the remarks at the maiden edition of the South-West Regional Youths Summit in Osogbo, Osun State on Tuesday
The governor said this in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy, Yomi Layinka, and made available to newsmen in Ibadan on Thursday
The PDP in a release by its Public Relations Officer, Akeem Olatunji, said the rally was more of a birthday celebration of the Governor who clocked 68 on Saturday because “the so-called decampees have joined APC long time ago”
Tinubu made the declaration during a mega rally at the ancient Mapo Hall, while receiving former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala; former Senate Leader, Teslim Folarin; and hosts of others into the APC
The appropriation bill, tagged: “Budget of Stabilisation,’’ presented to the assembly was N60 billion higher than the N207 billion presented in 2017.
The governor spoke on Wednesday evening in Ibadan while receiving Adams, who was in his office on a courtesy call.
The governor gave the commendation in Ibadan when he received the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, who visited him in his office.
Governor Abiola Ajimobi, who signed the law that had seen the crowning of 21 new obas in Ibadanland, had on Friday during the Eid-el-Maulud celebration at the Remembrance Arcade at Agodi in Ibadan, said there was no going back on the reform
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Azeez Adeduntan, made this known in a statement in Ibadan on Sunday in reaction to the statement by LAUTECH striking doctors
Shettima said this while reacting to reports that the President called on the World Bank to focus its interventions on the northern region
The monarch, who denied committing any crime to warrant the deposition threat repeatedly bandied against him by the Oyo State Government, said his conduct and utterances since more kings were appointed have been guided by the need to preserve Ibadan tradition and cultural heritage
At the resumption of the case on Wednesday, lead counsel to the Olubadan, Niyi Ajewole, told the court that his team was served with copy of a preliminary objection filed by the defence counsel challenging the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the matter
A statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Communication and Strategy, Yomi Layinka, on Wednesday, said the meeting would hold at the Executive Council Chambers of the Governor’s Office.
Ibadan youths, under the aegis of Integrity Youths of Ibadanland, on October 8 had called on President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on Ajimobi not to depose the Olubadan in view of its security implications to the state
Without innovation, the human race would actually be retrogressing. That is why the Governor’s position on the reform is apt. No one can win an argument against innovation, particularly given the common knowledge that for over 30 years leaders of thoughts and many interested parties in Ibadan have consistently called for the review of the traditional institution of their Oba, the Olubadan, currently occupied by Oba Saliu Adetunji.
The NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru; alongside the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi; leaders of the NNPC stakeholders, including the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria; Petroleum Tanker Drivers of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum Gas Workers; and several hundreds of depot workers witnessed the epoch making event.
The group emphasised that based on previous experiences, the Accord Party leader will never reciprocate Ajimobi’s good gestures towards him but will continue his campaign of calumny to bring down Ajimobi’s government with lies, untruths and negative comments, warning that it is better to keep one’s avowed enemy at arms length.
The Mogajis said Governor Ajimobi had since Monday’s invasion of the Olubadan’s palace by unknown gunmen, who shot sporadically and wounded three journalists in the process, been telling the whole world that “Olubadan’s cup was full but for the respect he had for him as a father”