Politics

Group Advises Police To Beef Up Security Around Oyo Deputy Governor

By Web News 729

Following a Save My Soul petition filed by Oyo State Deputy Governor, Engineer Rauf Olaniyan, Political Awareness Group, PAG has called on police to beef up security around the second citizen of the state.

This is contained in a statement in Ibadan by the Chairman of the Group, Barrister AbdWaheed Olowonjaye.

Barrister Olowonjaye said the Commissioner of Police in the state should not treat the case of the threat to the life of the Deputy Governor with levity and put in place machinery to ensure the safety of the man, noting that this would clear the police of any ulterior motive.

He said PAG, an Association of Muslim Professionals and Technocrats for Good Governance condemned the attack and destruction by some hoodlums on the property of the wife of the Deputy Governor, Professor Amdalat Olaniyan and called for a thorough investigation to bring the culprits to book.

Barrister Olowonjaye explained that it was high time that riot acts were read to political jobbers and touts who were behind last weekend senseless attack at the congress of the faction of People’s Democratic Party in Oyo State.

He equally described as unwarranted the purported move to impeach the Deputy Governor stressing that it would bring about crisis while pointing out that such experience in the past dragged the state into a state of decadence. 

The PAG Chairman lauded the members of the Oyo State House of Assembly for coming out to deny the planned impeachment, warning them not to be used as agents to destabilize the state.

He urged Governor Seyi Makinde to consider the appointment of more Muslim judges to bridge the widening gaps in furtherance his electioneering promise that he would be fair to all religions.

Barrister Olowonjaye added that PAG would not derail in its objective of ensuring good governance is instituted at all levels of government so as to bring succour to the hapless and helpless masses.

Ridwan Fasasi

Politics

Don Advocates Moral Rejuvenation To Reduce Corruption

By Web News 640

The Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Professor Abdulhafiz Oladosu says the nation needs to embark on moral rejuvenation to reduce the act of corruption.

He made the call in Ibadan at a stakeholders’ summit organised by Political Awareness Group, PAG, an association of Muslim professionals and technocrats for good governance.

Professor Oladosu who is a lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, noted that morally upright ones with God-consciousness would not embark on corrupt activities.

He admonished the political office holders to fulfill their electioneering promises in order to regain the confidence of the people, noting that the current developments in the country have demoralised many Nigerians. 

 In a remark, the former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja emphasized on the unity of Nigeria, warning against secession as being clamoured in some quarters. 

Senator Ladoja who was represented by former Secretary to Oyo State Government, Barrister Sharafadeen Alli decried the idea of tagging a particular tribe with crimes maintaining that every tribe has bad eggs and criminal elements. 

The former governor posited that true federalism would solve the current series of challenges facing the country. 

The former Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education, who is also the chairman on the occasion, Dr Sulaiman Adediran enjoined Muslims to develop themselves politically and be advocates of good governance.

Earlier, the Chairman, Political Awareness Group, Barrister AbdWaheed Olowonjaye, noted that the organisation stands for good governance and was ready to support those who shared PAG’s agenda.

He explained that resolutions at the summit would be transmitted to appropriate quarters and concerned authorities.

Barrister Olowonjaye condemned the call for secession in some quarters stressing that what should be paramount was the need to join hands with the federal government to find lasting solutions to various challenges bedeviling the country.

Ridwan Fasasi