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  • Osun APC Guber Primary: Aregbesola loses ward to Oyetola

    Osun APC Guber Primary: Aregbesola loses ward to Oyetola

    As the All Progressives Congress, APC, holds governorship primary election in Osun, the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola did not participate in the process, as he was said to have traveled out of the state for an urgent assignment.

    This is as the incumbent Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola won at the Minister’s ward 8 of Ilesa-East local government area of the state.

    However, APC Chairman in the ward, Adegoke Saheed lamented alleged removal of their supporters name from the voters’ register.

    He also disclosed that the absence of the Minister put them at a disadvantage as the Governor’s faction deployed power of incumbent against them.

    “It is unfortunate that the process did not go well at all. I challenged the register book they brought because it is not the register we used during the registration. I was the supervisor then. I supervised the whole ward. I appointed those that registered members at the units.

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    “During the accreditation, there were some people that belonged to us and their names could not be found in the register book they brought. I challenged them. I made them know that the register has been doctored. They did not listen because they are incumbent and they are many.

    “After the accreditation, I asked them what is the total number of accredited voters. They said they can’t tell me until after the voting. To my own knowledge, all the accredited members can not be up to 300. When they started counting, I started seeing so many faces that I didn’t know. I saw people from ward 4, ward 10 were all there, but they did not listen to me. They counted over 300 for Oyetola and after they counted 146 for us (Adeoti) they said they cannot count again. They disrupted the whole process and ended everything there,” Saheed lamented.

    However, in Osogbo local government where Senator Ajibola Basiru voted at Alaagba ward 7, the process was peaceful and he expressed optimism that Governor Oyetola will win the primary election.

    He added that unlike speculation that the exercise will be marred with violence, the exercise was free and fair.

  • Oyetola Wins Polling Unit In Osun APC Governorship Primary

    Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, has won the contest at his polling unit in the governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

    He emerged the winner of the exercise conducted on Saturday at his polling unit in Iragbiji town in Boripe Local Government Area of the state in south-west Nigeria.

    Governor Oyetola is contesting for the APC ticket against a former Secretary to the Government of the State (SSG), Moshood Adeoti, as well as a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Lasun Yussuff.

    The APC conducted the primary using the direct mode across the wards in the state. This mode allows party members to choose the candidate of their choice.

    According to the result announced in Oyetola’s polling unit, the governor has 1,612 votes from party faithful while his two co-contenders recorded zero votes.

    In his reaction, Governor Oyetola commended the process which he described as free and fair. The exercise was also adjudged to be peaceful so far as no case of violence was recorded in some of the polling units visited by Channels Television crew.

    Political parties are conducting primaries to select their candidates for the governorship election scheduled to hold on July 16, as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

    In the build-up to Saturday’s primary, there has been a division within the ruling party in the state following a disagreement between incumbent Governor Oyetola and his predecessor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola.

    This prompted the former governor to seek to unseat Oyetola whom he supported to succeed him in September 2018. Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had emerged as the runner-up in that election.

    Aregbesola, who serves as the Minister of Interior in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet, has now declared his support for Adeoti, as his anointed candidate for the forthcoming election.

    Notwithstanding the disagreement, the minister asked members of the party in the state loyal to him to conduct themselves in a peaceful matter throughout the exercise.

  • Osun to commission SIFMIS tomorrow

    Osun to commission SIFMIS tomorrow

    By Richard Ayinde, Osogbo

    Osun State Governor, Mr Adegboyega Oyetola will tomorrow officially commission the State Integrated Financial Management Information System (SIFMIS), an application built to automate the state’s financial management system.

    According to a statement signed by the Commissioner for Finance, Mr Bola Oyebamiji, the application built through the support of the European Union and World Bank will among other things make the state’s budgetary process easier and faster.

    The commissioning ceremony which will take place at the Premises of the Accountant General’s Office by 3pm will also be attended by the Speaker of State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Timothy Owoeye as well as other top government functionaries.

    Other invited guests are expected to be on seat before 3pm with their face masks and adhere to other COVID-19 safety protocols.

  • Gov Akeredolu sworn in for second term

    Gov Akeredolu sworn in for second term

    Ondo Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has taken oath for a second term in office. His running mate, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, took the oath of office for the first time as Deputy Governor.

    Aiyedatiwa was accompanied by his wife and three children.

    The former Ondo Commissioner in the Niger Delta Development Commission took the oath at about 10:30am.

    Governor Akeredolu was accompanied by his wife, Betty, children and grandchildren.

    Guests erupted in applause at the announcement of the presence of Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki at the International Culture and Event Centre, Akure, venue of the inauguration of Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) for second term as Ondo Governor on Wednesday.

    With Obaseki in Akure were Osun Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, his Lagos, Ogun and Ekiti counterparts – Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Dapo Abiodun and Kayode Fayemi respectively.

    Former Ogun Governor Ibikunle Amosun; former Senate President Ken Nnamani and new APC chieftain in Osun State Sen. Iyiola Omisore also graced the event