It is a follow up to their first meeting a day after the primary election won by Fayemi.
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Oyebode said over the years, the sector had only contributed little into the federation account, adding that previously, the government agencies responsible for the management of the sector had not been able to contribute meaningfully to revive the sector.
The party said describing the 800m flyover built by Governor Ayodele Fayose at the whopping cost of N17 billion as the best of its type in Nigeria is a slap on the faces of Ekiti State people and reasonable Nigerians in general.
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, disclosed this in Otan Ayegbaju, Osun State during the commissioning and handing over ceremony of Soil Erosion, Flood Control and Road Improvement Works at Ifedayo/Boluwaduro/Ila Federal Constituency at the weekend.
Fayemi paid the visit to the family house in Olorunkemi Estate, Alaka Elebu, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Sunday.
The campaign council, which was inaugurated by the APC Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Lawali Shuaibu, on behalf of the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has fourteen serving governors, ministers, some members of the party’s National Working Committee, National Assembly members and senior party leaders.
The APC Governorship Candidate’s directive was contained in a statement by his Special Adviser (Media), Yinka Oyebode, on Monday.
Fayemi said the news of the death of Pastor Salami, a former Chairman of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Ekiti State chapter, was quite shocking and saddening.
Fayemi, who on Saturday was declared winner of the APC primary having polled a total 941 votes, visited no fewer than 15 of the aspirants in their respective homes on Sunday.
The spokesman in the statement congratulated Fayemi as well as other aspirants and the Primary Election Committee for the success of the event.
This is the day the Lord has made, and we rejoice and are glad in it. Today, the people have spoken and their voice has been heard resoundingly.
He said: “I can see that delegates from the 11 local government have cast their votes and there was no fraudulent acts or riot, everything is going on smoothly.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that protesters, who claimed to be sympathetic to the aspiration of the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, had besieged the secretariat on the Ajilosun- Ikere road where they announced the removal of the state executives led by Chief Jide Awe.
Fayemi offered the explanation on Saturday when he spoke with newsmen shortly after the suspension of the primaries that was supposed to produce the party’s candidate for the July 14, 2018 election.
Fayemi, also an aspirant, spoke against the backdrop of the scuttling of the primaries midway by those he described as having seen the writing clearly that they were going to lose the election.
The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, stated this at a stakeholders meeting on Wednesday in Uyo.
Some had even divined he dare not announce his ambition. The White Paper bogey had almost drowned the voices of the boisterous orchestra of optimists who had vowed that “unfinished business” was about to berth at the Oke-Ayoba Government House. And like the game of dice, the end seemed unpredictable.
Some of the experts and stakeholders in the mining sector commended the decision of the House of Representatives for standing with one voice to oppose the concession of Ajaokuta steel.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Fayemi had hosted leaders and scores of members of the party from all the 16 Local Government Areas and the 177 Wards of the state.
He said this while inaugurating the second batch of 50 Hillux vehicles to strengthen the Special Mines Surveillance Taskforce to curb illegal mining on Thursday in Abuja.