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toludadon: I can tell you as At today, ajimobi will have bloc vote from Oyo town and the Ibadan agenda is highly in his favor too

Not true, Oyo is already in the pocket of Oyo PDP via alaafin. U need to upgrade and update ur source of information. That in bold is obsolete. Have u not observed that Ajimobi and Alaafin do not make reference to each other anymore in recent times. Do u think Jonathan just went to drink coffee with Alaafin when he visited him? Why do u think Tinubu abused SW Obas subsequently? Alaafin is among those he was referring to cos they are disappointed he dumped them for PDP.

texaco1: bros ,even ladoja na pdp man, if he is called to a meeting now with gej and muazu ,he will state his terms and condition just like he did for ajimobi the last time. Even labour party according to info I am getting won't give pdp any problem. One thing ppl are forgetting is that nigeria politics is about what I can get not what is good for the people,all these politicians will trade their followers if given the right price ,but gej needs every state he can win in order to win in 2015

Of course that is the way it is, I am aware that a popular Accord chieftain from Oyo town (I don't want to mention name) is negotiating with the influence of Alaafin for PDP ticket for Oyo Central Sen district. Meanwhile majority will believe that he (the said chieftain) is accord and that Alaafin supports APC.

emiye: 9 months to election is a long time politically, a lot of factors can still come to play,

I can tell you majority of the aggrieved masses at the moment will pick accord at the expense of PDP. the masses make up roughly 80% of the voters, and i acknowledged that in my analysis.

In a 3 horse race, you only need roughly 40% of total votes, it will be a 3 horse race in 2015 in oyo state.

Its going to be a 2 horse-race I believe. The contention is between PDP and ACCORD... APC will finish a distant 3rd... It will be an uphill task for a virtually empty party (APC) to garner votes on election day. This is my opinion formed based on my understanding of unfolding events so far.

mandarin: I took interest in your post because of its organization but I laughed at how you took readers for fools. Did I read Elebu highway there? Hahaaaaa brother! Why not let's be objective because if our country becomes better its for our own good and that of our children.
It is true that politics of division is what is at play now in Nigeria but as educated as we are especially people with civilized minds, why would you want to pursue you pocket alone to the detriment of the larger society through hypocritical media propaganda.
You did not talk about delibrate plan by past government to underdevelop Oyo state, if not Ibadan should have been carved out of Oyo so that it would have sfficient funds like KANO TO AID DEVELOPMENTS.
i DO NOT LIKE POLITICIANS RIGHT? because they are bunch of insincere citizens of Nigeria and they are destrying this country using people like you as their foot soldiers!!!
Tell me the achievements of Akala, what would impact the development of the greater populace are things that should form the focal points of any serious government including education, infrastructures and entrepreneurial developments. That Ekiti people voted to have purported stomach infrastructure is a pointer to the fact that though they claim to be educated they are ill exposed and have degenerated to what I will calll Esau's weakness althogh I do not blame them, when people see the way politicians and their apologist live in affluence they will condescence.
Ibadan, to be honest with you have been a huge dissappointment in Nigeria going by its political importance, populaton and size because successive government iin Oyo state have failed to lift that city out of squallor and for the first time we are about seeing what is looking like developments you are here spreading this kind of message. I am not from Oyo state but I want progress and I don't share all these political abcadabra at all and am not a member or promoter of any party.
If Oyo people chose to follow their brothersin Ekiti good for them, they can collect their own national cake and share among themselves but you know when your fellows are planting you are eating your own seed, when they are reaping what will happen to you? Ekiti I hope will not be there to serve as the scape goat while these rather self centred civil servants are always wanting more, I do not blame them though, I blame the corrupt society.

Thanks for appreciating my organised write up but I expect u to respond with an equally organised write up because what u wrote is barely comprehensible. U singled out Elebu Highway without reason. If u have issues with the fact that I mentioned Elebu, I will expect u to bring ur reasons and fact. Is it that the Highway does not exist? Or that it was not constructed by Akala? Or not true that its an entirely new road that never existed? So in case of next time, I am advising u that when u disagree with a thing, u have to come up with reasons. Anything without reason is unreasonable.

U asked me to tell u a single thing that Akala did but interestingly, in the very comment u responded to, some of the things that I know he did was very clearly stated out there. I will advise u to re-read my comment again and this time around, read to understand very well.

stevolinkon40: Tessy Owns Pdp ticket, primary or no primary. Akala will leave Pdp for either labour or accord or he will still stay in pdp if dey give am d senetorial ticket which halleluyah will also fight for

Look bro u are way way off point. I could easily have ignored ur comment and just allow u to believe whatever u want to believe but I just can't stand how so off point u are. Tessy himself knows he cant make it so what are u saying here? I see some ppl are commenting here based on mere wishful thinking or cheap rumours in town. Let me tell u here, Tessy can't ever make the guber ticket at this time. Do u even know what happened at the greenspring yesterday? Why did Tessy say he wasn't going to show up at the Greenspring but later at the dead minute he changed his mind and showed up. U really can't find answers to my question because from ur comment, I know u don't have any idea of Oyo PDP internal politics. Who hosted Fayose at Greenspring? Why was it not Tessy or Hosea or all of these names u are throwing up here if they are so relevant? How many ppl came with them yesterday?

U are saying Akala will leave if they gave him ticket. But my question to u is who are "they"? who and who determines who gets ticket in PDP can u tell me? U are mentioning Hosea as if he has any clout, who nominated him for his senatorial ticket in the 1st place? Was it not Akala tht nominsted him at the expense of Were who was more popular? U know nothing about PDP. Let me tell u this, as it stands today, everything in Oyo PDP revolves around Alao Akala. Whatever he wants to get, he will get. If he wants Senate ticket he will get it but meanwhile, he wants guber ticket and he has gotten it already.

When Senator Adeseun of APC decalred for PDP on Monday, why did he have close door meetings with Akala but not with any of these names u are throwing up? I thought he would have wanted to meet them so badly if they are as relevant as some of u believe. Just wait till u find out OK? majority of those guber aspirants in PDP would have to step down. We know those amongst the aspirants already negotiating for Deputy governor including even some that are still in LP, hoping to seal a deal before public declaration for PDP. I wont mention names here but I just have to hint u so when it reveals u will be able to recall that u have been told here already.

Chamack: I know tokyo must be involved, never heard of eleweomo recently.

Hahaha.. Look at u... where u dey since eh Eleweomo wey don mood since 2011. It was frontpage murder news across newspapers back then now! Teslim Folaring had to spend a couple of weeks in Agodi on top the case sef.

Soyedele1: Bro, he's going nowhere sir .. Tell me d reason why yu want him to go?

Bros, the reason or whatever is irrelevant at this point. Even if Ajimobi starts working day and night from now to election day in 2015, he can't make it because its already too late. U don't open ur eyes and allow virtually everybody to leave ur party platform and keep telling urself there is no problem, there is no problem.

Does he not realize the implications of the mass exodus of party members under his administration? ur party members hate u so much that they are willingly leaving the party and just waiting for 2015. Even including those with portfolio, Sharafa Alli last month just tendered resignation as Odua Board Chairman and immediately announced is defection from APC. 2 senators had earlier defected and virtually all Lamist APC have bolted out. Every single politician that left are leaving to work against him in the coming election. So who will work for him? Is it his upscale/de-facto deputy governor wife or his paparazzi Special Assistant daughter? I'm just saying this so that when it happens, u will recall that a dude said it on NL

ideranani: I am 4rm oyo state,and I can tell u Akala would win overwhemingly@ oyo north,while ajimobi would win in oyo central and ladoja would win oyo south.Both ajimobi and ladoja are 4rm oyo south,but ladoja's followership can be found mainly in ibadan north local govt.unless ladoja and akala merge,ajimobi would still win.

So by ur permutation, only Oyo central vote will be enough to return Ajimobi right? I guess u are giving Oyo central to Ajimobi because of his assumed rosy relationship with Alaafin. What u may not know is that Alaafin is no more on his side. If u dont know that, u dont know anything Oyo LGs and the surrounding wouldn't vote for Ajimobi. I am very sure that Ajimobi has nowhere left to get votes from and if u are very informed with the current states of things, u should know the same.

RedReact: Ladoja contesting and not winning, I will leave it for voters to decide, as my vote, a single vote is not enough to vote in my own candidate. Ladoja is still loved by the civil service because of how he treated them in his term. He lost his bearing when he started picking fights in late 2004.

As for PDP crisis, sir, there is crisis in PDP. I am not relying on hearsay at all. There is division in PDP right now, which is normal anyway, and the division is along Oyo North and Oyo South/Central. Folarin and Akinjide are not serious to me. Folarin had the opportunity of making his name when he was in senate but what did he do? Nothing. Like I said earlier, if we are to get development we are craving for, we need to push people with ideas and innovations up front and not people with no intention or zest for creating positive impact in the society. That is where I will like to see a certain Arapaja/Ajimobi/ and another innovation-driven man from AP to slug it out next year and not Akala/Ladoja.

Akala had almost 5 years in power, the highest stay in government by any individual, but what are his records? We need to be sincere with ourselves. He just had the opportunity of being the governor when he did not expect it. If his 4 years and 11 months administration had been like that of the incumbent, it would have been good but that wasn't the case.

You can bear witness that for almost 6 years, security was at the lowest ebb in Oyo State, except the brief period of the Police Commissioner bought from Akwa Ibom, who dealt with some of the political forces then, and security issues went down when Ajimobi came in. The grouse of people with Ajimobi administration are different but my own grouse with him is in the area of job creation and some other area, despite the fact that I like him. Whether he is coming back or not is not even the case here, but has he performed better than his predecessors? Yes, he has.

As for the election, we cannot decide how it's going to go, one of the dynamics of Oyo politics and that makes it interesting. Oyo north has always been a PDP stronghold since 1999, so they winning that zone will not be a surprise to me but that cannot be said of Oyo South and Central, as there are divisions along party line, and Ibadan constitutes a large chunk in the 2 senatorial zones of Oyo central and south, so one can't say someone is going to come first or third. Mind you, if Ajimobi doesn't make 2nd term, people will still peg his administration against the incoming one and contrast which is better.

My response might be a little long cos I want to be very very clear but I will make it easy to read.

Wishes vs Reality
As I read thru ur comment with keen interest, I observed that u seem to be mixing two things up and which are what u wish to happen in 2015 and what will actually happen. Let's spend our time on what will actually happen or let me say what is very likely to happen (since I am not God). U throwing up Arapaja's name actually reveals how u don't know much about what is going on in the PDP camp. Arapaja is far from it. Do u not know that he is not even in the current Guber race in the camp? So lets not waste time on that.

Ladoja
Whether Ladoja will win or not will of course be determined by voters but he will not be contesting to necessarily win. Its very simple to understand as Ladoja himself can only beat his chest for votes in Ibadan of which he can't get a 100% cos u and I know that there exists significantly a good size of PDP across Ibadan which interestingly is growing. U said Ladoja is loved for the mere fact that he treated civil servants very well, can u say the same of Ajimobi? Since u hammered on Ajimobi's performance, I will discuss that in subsequent paragraph.

Crisis or no crisis in PDP
U said there are crisis but u still did not clearly state how, u just believed there are crisis why didnt u mention names against names. What u are seeing in PDP is not actually crisis but lobbying and re-positioning in advance of what is coming, some ppl call it trading and bargaining. Everybody knows their levels and what they can achieve or not achieve. For example, Akinjide and co established a so called another faction and placed its secretariat in Yemetu but who do u see in Yemetu? if correspondences come from Abuja, does it go to Yemetu or Dandaru? Which is the actual, legally recognized PDP secretariat. What u are seeing is just bluffing, politicians do this to remain relevant one way or the other.

Over 10 candidates have declared for guber in PDP, so if there is crisis as u and others believe, why do all of them know not to make their declaration in any other faction secretariat than the main secretariat in Dandaru? If they truly belong to different factions, why did they not make their declaration in their putative factions? Remember the APC tried to awash the media with the impression that Ekiti PDP is cracked before and after the emergence of Fayose but reality says the opposite, Some wished that it was true until the election reveals it wasn't.

Since u mentioned comparison of performance I would like to do some comparison exercise.

Ajimobi's Performance Over-hype
U talked of Ajimobi's performance as if he's the best we have had so far and u talked about Ladoja's excellence with dealing with civil service. In that vain, can u now go to the secretariat and sample just 2 or 3 ppl's opinion? U dont even need to ask 10 ppl, Just 3!!! Can u sample teachers opinon? Do u know how much he is owing them, did u not see how he discountenanced the teachers when they asked him about their unpaid salary on B.C.O.S interview? So why do u think Ajimobi is performing. What u do not know is that u and the majority have been coerced and coaxed at the same time via the media to only see the projects they did and take ur attention away from the numerous other responsibilities they have neglected. My pensioner dad is owed over 5 months unpaid (and still counting) by Ajimobi if we were poor jobless children, how would my dad have been surviving?

Akala's Performance Under-hype
U asked for Akala's record and asked for sincerity but in my opinion u seem to be the insincere one because u believe that Akala did NOTHING. But I understand why u believe that cos its a common belief by the majority which is engineered by the then ACN via media blackmail to totally reduce Akala's popularity and personality to their own advantage.

I can't bear witness with u that Akala did nothing because:
1)Ajimobi prides himself as the governor that keeps Ibadan clean but what he never tells u is that all the equipment, the refuse compactors, the roll on roll off refuse trucks including the working implementation that he is using now was bought brand new and put in place by the Akala government. Ajimobi has not bought to date a single compactor for refuse cos the equipment he inherited was sufficient and in good state. Remember he reiterated that he met nothing on ground, that the state was in shambles. That is APC for u, they are specialist in misinforming the ppl against the other party.

2) Ajimobi prides himself as if the only governor that constructs roads but Ladoja constructed roads too, Akala apart from several local govt roads he constructed, he equally expanded major roads in Ibadan so why would u ask me to bear witness that he did nothing? And the roads are still in good shape. In fact Akala is the only governor to have ever gone beyond merely expanding an existing road to opening up a never existing highway in Ibadan check Elebu highway and the resulting impressive development in that axis. Ajimobi expanded Dugbe to Ance-Eleyele but Akala was the first to expand the same Dugbe from Queen's cinema to J/Allen to Oke Ado/Molete and after about 6 years, the road is still in very good shape, is it a lie?

3) Akala was the 1st since the current democracy to ensure that all dual carriage roads in Ibadan have streetlights including the one he constructed and the one constructed before him, Lam and Ladoja didn't do a single street light project that's a fact. He (Akala) went as far as powering the street lights with generators during power failure just to ensure that the lights were on
So how would I bear witness that he did nothing?

4) Akala massively rejuvenated the then dead Oyo health care. Did u know what the Oyo state hospital in Yemetu and Adeoyo looked like before Akala? Old, dilapidated, smelly colonial buildings with rusty leaky roof. Can u see what it looks like after Akala left? Have u seen the massive teaching hospital in Lautech? did u see the annex in Oyo? Is that not infrastructural development? What did Ajimobi do to improve ppl's health in his 4 years? Instead he said he was going build a 5 star hotel beside premier hotel which after almost 4 years, it's yet to be built. How would u build a 5 star hotel beside premier hotel that is never patronized to capacity? what sense does that make? What would that hotel mean to common man? well lets leave that.

Did u see how the Oyo Fire Service was well equipped by Akala? The same equipment Ajimobi used for rescue during the major flood. While Ajimobi was extolling his own rescue efforts, he never said "let's thank Akala who deemed it fit to equip the Fire Services in case of disaster otherwise, there would have been no equipment on ground" He never said that did he?
Therefore, u can't ask me to bear witness that Akala did nothing

Let me just live it at that.

texaco1: bros ladoja will not contest you will see , ladoja and akala will not contest they will only support candidates . then accord and labour are all working for pdp . bro you will see .

This is not definite, Ladoja will still very likely contest but he can't win and he knows it but he will be contesting not actually to win but for some other gains.

RedReact: Ladoja won't compete for sure, as I don't even want him there sef, but him working with Akala/PDP, let's wait and see then. As for Akala, he wasn't really keen on coming back, but with the surprise spin of Ekiti poll, he is anticipating more, but as I said earlier, let's wait and see.
God keep us alive and healthy till then.

As for Akala's intent,. not true, he's been working on his guber ambition since a very long time and he's been Gej's candidate since 2013 (those who think he's going for senate are misinformed). Hence the reason why he championed the reconciliation moves. He understands that he needs to reconcile everyone to achieve his ambition. As it stands, he is the only political figure with the most weight in Oyo PDP its only a matter of time when he will be announced as the candidate to face off with Ajimobi.

For those who think there is a crack in PDP, there is no crack, the perception of crack emanates from media sensationalism. Ppl like Teslim knows he can't make it. what is his clout or Akinjide with her Ibadan Agenda, she's now more busy with saving her minister position than playing the politics of (Ibadan man must be PDP candidate) Hence the reason why they talk less these days. They have already known the direction of things, they just have to align and move on.

The stuffs that go on on social media (nairaland, twitter, facebook etc) is one thing but what actually happens on political turf which dictates the direction of the election is completely another thing. Just to be clear this is how its going to be in 2015, Ajimobi APC Akala PDP Ladoja Accord.

I might not want to state who will win out of the three, But I am very sure who will come a distant 3rd out of the three... Ajimobi of APC.. Yes he will have the least vote from the three of them. Accord is holding it down in Ibadan while PDP is holding it down in other zones. Ajimobi has no control of anywhere he has lost his grip on APC and the party is virtually empty. Both their heavy weights and their underdogs have left. Ajimobi is the only person left in APC. Thats not the way to win election.

Firefire: 4 years to complete how many km bridge

2010 - 2014

Maybe, he is waiting for best modelity to TOLL the bridge before finishing it

APC is loosing it BIG TIME. Walahi!

The problem of this government is misplaced priority. They are not interested in any project that is not marketable for their propaganda no matter how much it will benefit the people. That's why they will rather sink boreholes running to billions of naira just to water flowers and flaunt it on T.V to show how performing they are than to sink same for human use.

That bridge does not fall within his propaganda projects as a result, the Governor is simply not interested. Now that they need votes after seeing what happened in Ekiti, they are now desperately promising completion of the bridge in September. Just like Aregbe in Osun is desperately begging the victims of his demolition to come and collect their compensation. So if Fayemi did not lose in Ekiti they wont feel the need to pay ppl whose houses are pulled down 3-4 years ago.

But its too late now... its just too late for them, just like it was too late for Fayemi. Election is already here

Why would anyone want to defend this failure, a govt that failed to build a mere drainage bridge (not an overhead bridge) in 4 years? When Ajimobi himself couldn't find any excuse other than that non construction of the bridge was due to climatic conditions. Unfavourable climatic condition Year 1, Year 2, Year 3... Come on now!!! Mr Governor, how come the same climatic condition did not hinder the construction of Mokola bridge? Which was completed in no time?

As far as Apete is concerned, its a fatal failure and if anyone wants to know how bad it is, check his official facebook page or better still oyo state government facebook, things are not looking good for the gap-toothed dude at all, his popularity has nosedived given the reaction of aggrieved groups here and there.

But whatever he is planning to do, its too late though, bye bye 2nd term