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Oyo LG Polls: Voting Underway In Ido LG

By Web News 987

Chairmanship and councillorship elections into wards in Ido local Government Area are underway.

Our correspondent who went round some polling units in the council reports that the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission, OYSIEC ad hoc staff were on ground with election materials.

Radio Nigeria also gathered that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA and Zenith Labour Party, ZLP agents were also seen in some polling units visited at Agbaje, Apete, Awotan and Alakuta areas.

Security personnel were stationed around voting points and others patrolling to ensure protection of lives and property.

Meanwhile, business activities were ongoing without hindrance, as well movement of vehicles. 

Some public and private schools in the local government were also opened for academic activities.

Sheriffdeen Nasirudeen

Politics

Oyo Speaker Welcomes ZLP Chieftain, Others to PDP in Ibarapaland

By Web News 685

The Oyo State Speaker, Hon Adebo Ogundoyin has received the Zenith Labour Party , ZLP Chieftain in Ibarapaland, Dr Adebayo Anthony Adepoju and other members of the opposition parties to  the ruling People’s Democratic party, PDP in the state.

Dr Adepoju, who was the ZLP House of Representatives candidate for Ibarapa North/Central Federal Constituency in the last election and presently the Chairman Oyo State Water Corporation, led hundreds of his supporters and that of APC, ADC and ADP to the PDP at a ceremony held at Igboora Garage, Igboora.

The Speaker while welcoming the decampees into the PDP on behalf of Governor Seyi Makinde applauded their decision to join the ruling party and described the move as the best at this time.

Hon Ogundoyin said the PDP was the beautiful bride being sought after at the moment by many notable politicians across the country, adding that the people oriented government of Engr Seyi Makinde in Oyo State was becoming a model for others to follow.

The Speaker, who congratulated the PDP family in Ibarapaland on the new entrants, stated that the ruling party in the State had continued to wax stronger. 

Speaking on his decision to bring his teeming supporters and that of other opposition parties into the PDP fold, Dr Adepoju said he had no choice than to join the ruling party in Oyo State in view of the various enviable projects being executed by Governor Seyi Makinde across all sectors.

Dr Adepoju maintained that in less than two years in office, Governor Seyi Makinde had laid the foundation for the total transformation of Oyo State and proven himself as a serious leader bent on leaving a lasting legacy for future generations.

The defection ceremony was attended by Oyo South Senatorial Chairman of the PDP, Elder Samuel Olawuwo, the State Commissioner for Special Duties, Hon Funmilayo Orisadeyi, Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Mr. Seun Fakorede, member representing Ibarapa North/Central State Constituency in the Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon Peter Ojedokun among others

Mosope Kehinde

Politics

Ondo ZLP Governorship Candidate Pledges to Reduce Tuition Fees

By Web News 1583

As October 10 governorship election approaches in Ondo State, the candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), Mr Agboola Ajayi has vowed that he would reduce drastically to just fifty thousand naira tuitions at various state tertiary institutions if elected to lead the state.

Mr Agboola, who is also the state deputy governor, also promised to solve over ten year-old blackout in Ondo South Senatorial District within one hundred days in office as governor.

The ZLP candidate, who made the pledge during the campaign flag off of the party held in Ore, described outrageous increase in tuitions of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko and abolution of free health care for pregnant women and children by the present administration as unacceptable.

Mr Agboola, who was flanked by his running mate and other party stalwarts, said he remained the most qualified candidate to lead the state as governor in order to restore various social welfare packages including empowerment of workers, traders and artisans.

Addressing the supporters, the National leader of ZLP and former governor of the state, Olusegun Mimiko said Agboola Ajayi remained the best candidate to rescue the state from what described as bad governance in the last three and half years.

Also speaking, a former PDP governorship aspirant, Mr Banji Okunomo, said it was the turn of Ondo South Senatorial District to produce the next governor of the state in the spirit of political fairness.

The campaign flag off was attended by the ZLP state chairman, Chief Joseph Akinlaja; three former Speakers Bakita Bello; Taofeeq Abdulsalam and Jumoke Akindele among other political bigwigs.

Leke Adegbite