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helinues:
Consolation epistle by Pdp

OkoNDOoBo:
Cashtivist don cash out. This is the same set of people that always villify Tinubu , yet dem don steal 80% of burial funds.
Imagine this set of people lay hands on lagos funds , lagos will have been dragging incompetence with delta, rivers and akwa ibom. I'm not surprised though cos these cashtivist cum afenifere re pdp attack Dog

Controversy Surrounds Odumakin's Burial Over Alleged Misappropriation Of N7.9million By Civil Society Planning Committee


The civil society community in Lagos State has been rocked by allegations of misappropriation of N10 million memorial fund raised for the burial of the late activist and former National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Mr Yinka Odumakin.


Following the death of Odumakin on April 3, 2021, the civil society set up a WhatsApp group to galvanise activists towards organising a befitting burial for Odumakin, Daily Trust reports.

The platform was set up by Wale Okunniyi, an activist, as the Lead Admin with other prominent human rights activists on the group.

Subsequently, a decision was arrived at to raise money for the burial in order to support the Odumakin’s family and the sum of N9.9 million was raised.

Among the donors were the Lagos State Government, Osun State Government and Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti, donating N5 million, N2.5 million and N1 million respectively.

Other donors included prominent lawyers, Mr Femi Falana, Chief Mike Ozekhome, Wahab Shittu, Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, and Chief John Nwodo.

Few days after the burial held in Odumakin’s country home in Ife Moro in Osun State on April 24, members of the platform began to question the funds’ utilisation, accusing the committee of mismanagement.

However, the committee later gave a report detailing how the money was spent on the burial programme.

In the report, the burial committee listed several expenses on various items such as secretariat administration/logistical services which costs N515,000; media and publicity, N1.2 million; food and drinks, 1.4 million; branded souvenirs and editorial, N4.4 million; accommodation/welfare N577,000, among others.

The newspaper learnt that after the report of the expenditure was presented, some members set up an accountability committee known as Odumakin Accountability Resolution Committee.

The committee at the end of its assignment indicted the Memorial Planning Committee (MPC) and asked it to refund N7.9m to the Odumakin family.

The Accountability Committee has Comrade Gbenga Soloki Moses as Chairman and Comrade Taiwo Hassan Bello as Secretary with other members including Comrade Erelu Oodua Tinuade Onaneye; Comrade Elijah Ajanu Ojo; Comrade Princess Edo; Comrade Ras Innovator; Comrade Bola Olanrewaju; Comrade Otunba Mark Adesanya and Comrade Ola Oni jnr.

In its report, the Committee observed several discrepancies in the expenditure report and stated that the sum of N7.9 million was unaccounted for.

The report made available to Daily Trust read in parts: “That Messers Wale Okunniyi… and co be held accountable for the sum of N7,995,000 (seven million nine hundred and ninety-five thousand) only unaccounted for by the MPC.”

Curiously, another member on the platform who had initially accused Okunniyi of mismanagement later withdrew her statement, saying she has been reliably informed that “Comrade Wale Okunniyi has been judicious in running the affairs of the Committee for a befitting and glamorous burial for Comrade Yinka Odumakin without blemish.”

When contacted, Okunniyi dismissed the report of the Accountability Committee, saying the members of the committee were ‘sponsored’.

He said the report of the memorial committee has been made public and members were satisfied with the way the money was expended, adding that he had moved on.

Once it is election season, the secessionists promptly align with their vairous parties....

Boycotts they know not.

Secessionism is just a means to gaining access to chopping money.

peacekante:
IPOB have you seen that social media will not win your party votes? PDP change your ways. The more you lie, the more the ruling party become stronger

tito44:
Lagos, The No man's land

..argue with ur father

EjaikreTheViper:
WILL YOU SHUT UP THERE!!!

EjaikreTheViper:
WE WILL DEAL WITH HEAD SLAMMERS SEVERELY!!!

EjaikreTheViper:
SHUT UP!!!

YOU ARE VERY IGNORANT

EjaikreTheViper:
Yes, we Yorubas will support Tinubu's ambition as president of Iragbiji Town Union. Afonja brown teeth baba must claim his rightful position.

Signed:

Olapupo Oladokun Olaitan,
President, Yoruba Youth Council

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said yesterday that it was shocked and embarrassed at the defection of Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Ayade switched camps on Thursday after a meeting with an APC delegation in Calabar.

He moved to his new party with numerous stalwarts of the party and members of the State House of Assembly, although the federal lawmakers from the state declared that they would remain in the PDP because the governor did not consult them.

The APC itself yesterday announced that election into party and public offices would be thrown open to all old and new members at its forthcoming national convention in a bid to accommodate as many interests as possible.

Reacting to Ayade’s defection yesterday, Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State said PDP governors “are greatly shocked and embarrassed that he (Ayade) would suddenly dump the party for APC” despite the strenuous efforts made by the PDP to keep him in its fold.

Ishaku spoke to State House correspondents in Abuja.

He said the PDP, through the Senator Bukola Saraki-led National Reconciliation and Strategy Committee, did a good job to make Ayade stay, but he had other reasons for leaving the party.

He said: “Let me tell you, they (Saraki Committee) have done a good job, but it depends on the decision of an individual and what he actually hopes to gain.

“You may have the best of intentions, somebody may not agree with you and so that is the point. I think it’s more of the governor’s decision, as it affects him, and nobody can hold brief on that.

“I wouldn’t know precisely the governor’s thinking, because all of us are different.

“All of us see PDP as alternative to APC and all the PDP governors are doing very well in their respective states.

“For him to leave to APC, I don’t know the details of that. I have not seen him. But be that as it may, I believe that any democratic country must have an opposition; a viable opposition. And opposition in itself is good for democracy.

“If you don’t have an opposition, then the government in power can go astray. So I believe in a vibrant democracy with an opposition. If we have an opposition, it is good.

“As to the reason why our colleague in PDP will depart, I don’t know the details and I can’t hold brief for him. He can still talk for himself

wwwihy:
Wrong call... who is DEMELO?...Osun used the public funds for better developmental projects

A Secondary School in Osun is better than your airport terminal

NwaNimo1:
Whites (+jews) full that list!

Igbochief001:
This is the problem with nigeria ...I can bet my balls the DG is from sokoto

Why not lagos ? Abuja ? This is rubbish

Same mentality of building high speed rail to Niger with a GDP less than that of anambra or akwa ibom, port Harcourt or even lagos