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tomakint: ........count Ondo and Ekiti people out of those Yoruba lives he is destroying, no one can fill the vacuum left by Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Awolowo!

also oyo and lagos.

thanks

smh. is this the focus of a so called group. this country is going to the dogs

No more APC in Oyo senatorial seat.


Office Name Party Constituency
Senator Hosea Ayoola Agboola PDP Oyo North
Senator Ayoade Ademola Adeseun ACN Oyo Central
Senator Olufemi Lanlehin ACN Oyo South

Now Sen Ayoade is in PDP and Sen Olufemi in Accord

Very bad, does this mean APC is not accommodating ?

Penultimate Tuesday’s defection of Senator Olufemi Lanlehin from the All Progressives Congress, APC to Accord completely erases the foothold of the Oyo State chapter of the APC in the Senate. It only foretells some negative omens for the ruling party in the state.


By OLA AJAYI, IBADAN
THE defection of Senator Lanlehin was predicted from the first days of the Abiola Ajimobi administration. His cat and mouse relationship with Governor Ajimobi even preceded the 2011 election. Senator Lanehin had been hopeful of securing the governorship ticket of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN before the eleventh hour defection of Ajimobi from the All Nigeria Peoples Party.
RECEPTION: Senator Rashidi Ladoja (with mic), assisted by Oyo State Accord Party chairman, Bashir Bola Lawal and others receiving Senator Olufemi Lanlehin, and others, who defected from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Accord Party, in Ibadan, yesterday.
RECEPTION: Senator Rashidi Ladoja (with mic), assisted by Oyo State Accord Party chairman, Bashir Bola Lawal and others receiving Senator Olufemi Lanlehin, and others, who defected from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Accord Party, in Ibadan.
So, he obviously had reasons to be miffed as he controlled the largest number of followers among the contestants at that time. Besides, he was closer to the former state leader of the party, late Lamidi Adesina and was generally believed to be the preferred candidate of the former governor.
However, when pressure was mounted by some Ibadan elites on a national leader of the party based in Lagos, Lanlehin became a sacrificial lamb even though he was subsequently compensated with a Senate ticket.
Formal defection
From then the bad blood seemed to have almost continuously flowed between the two senior officials and both men have almost always avoided themselves.
Before his formal defection, he abstained from the party’s meetings and rarely contributed anything to the party. The gap was especially noticed during the events to mark the first anniversary of the death of Adesina.
While notable chieftains of the APC including Senator Tinubu had an elaborate ceremony at the Lekan Salami Sports Complex, Adamasingba, Lanlehin and some few APC chieftains gathered at the deceased’s house to honour the dead politician.
Among the issues between the senator and Ajimobi were the alleged failure of the governor to carry other party members along in most of the policies he made.
Due to the alleged unpopular decisions which the governor took, Lanlehin said it with all emphasis that he was on his way out of the Agodi Government House.
He further explained that some party members who worked for the party in the 2011 elections were totally marginalised in distribution of political offices in the state noting that he favoured most people who did not contribute to the party’s victory at the poll.
“I complained so many times that policies were formulated without having the input of party members and that many members of the party who worked for the party in 2011 are not benefitting from the government. He did not listen to all these,” the senator said.
But responding, the APC state Chairman, Chief Akin Oke said it was ambition that drove the senators away. He said they were afraid of failing to secure the second term ticket because they had written off the governor saying he would not be allowed to run for the second term and by so doing their own ambitions may be jinxed. But, I know that the governor will break the jinx this time around.”
Lanlehin, however, dismissed the claim saying he is not over-ambitious as claimed saying he would be ready to pitch his tent with a party that has the love of the masses at heart.
In his letter which was addressed to the Senate President, David Mark, he said, “I contested and got elected into the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria. The said political party sometime in 2013 merged with other registered political parties and known as the All Progressives Congress.
Senator Abiola Ajimobi
Senator Abiola Ajimobi
“In exercise of my constitutional right to freedom of association under the 1999 Constitution as amended and pursuant to proviso contained in Section 68(g) of the said constitution, I decided to transfer my membership of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria to the Accord Party with all the rights and duties accruing thereto”, he stated.
Though, his political opponents see him as political Lilliputian, there is no doubt that he has several followers from his constituency, Oyo South. He has sunk several solar powered boreholes and empowered hundreds of people with his poverty alleviation programmes.
His defection to Accord Party has no doubt, depopulated the APC and has dimmed the hope of the party in the 2015 elections because most of his followers went with him to his new party.
While some say he has taken the right decision, others are of the view that the step he took to defect to Accord could spell doom for his political future. Those who support his move on their own part claim that had he remained in the APC that Governor Ajimobi would have done everything to deny him a second term ticket in the Senate.
Apart from the governor, the party leadership is also said to have issues against Lanlehin. Has the senator entered into political doldrums or has he wrenched himself free from oppression, it is the 2015 election and his treatment in Accord party that will tell.
When the going was good, the APC or rather the ACN could boast of two senators out of the three allotted to the state, but, the party has after the earlier defection of Senator Ayo Adeseun to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP now lost the two.


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PDP does not need to offer anyone money before we know APC is someone's business empire.

experimentist: but all you pdpdp maggots usually tackle the tissue instead of facing the issue.. Now when the allegation is against APC you want us to deal with the content and snub the container.. NO o!

Tolexander too is PDP

So people with integrity and speak the truth are now PDP. So when we lie, we are apc

rayanberry: Nigerians keep forgetting the fact that APC is just about a year old, you can not compare that to a worthless party who has been at the helm of affairs in the past 15 years , they have done absolutely incredible things in the past one year. at first when they emerged , we were all talking about how they could stay together as a party who came in with different ideas and like-minds. am proud of them... APC CHANGE FEDERAL

a year old HAHAHAHA APC o

Ahmeduana: APC & PDP are same players in different jerseys.
WEN apc NOW BEEN CAUGHT PANTS DOWN, IT NOW TURNS TO THEY ARE THE SAME TEN AND TEN PENNS, UHNN? HYPOCRATES

Exactly !!!!!!!!!!

royalblood21: Dis. Ibo Ppls wll just come here to they post/ comment rubbish, when they don't even knw what is happening in there states...What happen to dat Eo, PDP used in Anambra during thir last Gov. election ''abi u don forget?;; no. Doubt dat Aregbe is loved by Osun pple... pls comment on what is happening in ur state not here...
Useless ppl since Ojukwu Era!!!!

The usual defence mechanism

Not all of us are APC stooges. I am yoruba and I see APC as part of the same corrupt system they accuse PDP of.

Or you mean all the commentators here against APC are Igbos ?

Awa le eko a fe APC. Ole a ji bo lu igi ni wo.

Tell me which Igbo man will understand what I wrote. We are tired of APC government in the West.

Lol apc people sha. They love Tom Ikimi 4 months back. Now that he is in disagreement with Tinubu, he is corrupt and lacks integrity.

Who is decieving who

Tinubu just confirmed with Tom Ikimi said.

They are all the same. Like Tinubu like Tom ikimi

Tom Ikimi is just a very shameless man running back to his vomit

hizroyalflynes: One of the reasons i dont see APC as a better party than Pdp they run dictatorship...imagine they will choose their candidate in one man sitting room...no primaries

God bless you. Not only that, APC is made up of disgruntled PDP members

Is buhari not too old for this childish act.

As a former head of state and above the years of 70, I think he has done his time. It is time for the younger generation

APC has nothing to offer that PDP is not already doing

They are the same. APC is just full pained PDP member.

Idi.ots Mimiko is the second best performing governor after fashola. So because he is not in Apc he is being insulted.

I dislike these APC people

Mimiko has my support on this

@ OP

Ibadan is a city. Lagos is a state and Lagos Island is a town

Lets be clear. Ibadan is still and will still be the biggest city in west africa.

You have not been to the whole of Ibadan, trust me, molete, challenge, bodija, cocoa house, etc is not the whole of ibadan

Also notice ibadan is a continuous city unlike Lagos were LGs are WELL divided

Apc it is time to expand

Ole

Why are the fight both political parties of thieves

Is this same useless Ideology Nigerian business don't grow pass 50 years.

Looking for government patronage or corrupt deals to bail themselves out. EG Access Bank and intercontinental.

AZeD1: The bold part shows you have no idea of business. Debit is not bad, what is bad is unsustainable debt.
When you want to question the debt profile of an entity, the first question you should ask is if the debt is sustainable.

OGA We know you know a lot about business that is why when you have your own company, you should rather opt for debts even if you have money to execute the project with your money and still have excess left.

Look Oga, debt is bad in any business, It is a liability on its own NOT AN ASSET. Lets establish THAT FACT.

Now it goes back to the question

Is Lagos state debt sustainable ?

Lagos owes $1,020,410 674 billion

Its Monthly generated revenue is 17 billion Naira in which it has a reoccurring expenditure of 2 billion naira paid to Tinubu's company

thus left with 15 billion Naira.

Civil servant, repair and maintenance etc has not been accounted for

so how does Lagos state intend to pay back without triple taxing us or even robbing us like they were doing in Ekiti.

johnmartus: he should haven't walk along with hodlum

APC for you

whatlyf: it is clearly an inhouse thing which is not new in Lagos pdp politics

LOL tell us were such happened before this apart from the time when Tinubu killed Funsho Willams

whatlyf: PDP and their inhouse fighting has resumed. The once Gentleman Agbaje has been radicalised by the PDP. Its a shame.
I suspect it will be youths loyal to Obanikoro or Bode George.
My advice to Jay-kay is "Remember Engr Funso Williams"!!!!
Its a PDP Affair tho

I though you know Lagos PDP very well. So why are you talking like this

How can Bode George sponsor such ?

The reality is hitting you people hard that no one wants Tinubu pawn in power again