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Reminiscences of my Relationship with Kehinde Ayoola |By Prince Adetayo Adekunle

By
Peter Ayoade
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Thomas Campbell probably had Rt. Hon. Kehinde Ayoola in mind when he submitted that “to live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die”.

One may also not be wrong to have concluded that Hon. Ayoola imbibed the famous dictum of Albert Pike “what we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal” as his guiding principle.

In my tribute titled Kehinde Ayoola: Like a Candle in the Wind which was published by many media outlets on Friday May 15, 2020, I noted that it will be impossible to document what transpired between the late Kehinde Ayoola and I in a single writeup.

Now let’s go down the memory lane for some reminiscences.

When the Oyo State Government appointed me as Asoju Odo (Youth Representative) on May 7, 2014, I went to see him at Omi Titun Office immediately and showed him the appointment letter.

I informed him that on moral grounds, I won’t be able to join the Omi Titun campaign structure to work against Gov Abiola Ajimobi/APC who gave me the role. I submitted that such act would be morally reprehensible but I appealed that he shouldn’t allow that to draw a wedge in our relationship.

Hon. Ayoola’s response was that “this is a very bitter pill to swallow but I concur with your decision. May the Lord be with you”.

A few months after this development, I introduced a monarch who had financial challenges to him and pleaded for his kind assistance.

To cut the long story short, Rt. Hon. Kehinde Ayoola facilitated the gift of a Toyota Salon car and cash from Engineer Seyi Makinde for the distressed monarch.

That singular intervention was the icing on the cake for the embattled monarch.

Such was the kindheartedness of the deceased. Goodnight Uncle!

Prince Adetayo Adekunle, M.SC, MCPA is a an Ibadan-baded public affairs commentator

Condolence Visit: Much Ado About NothingĀ  byĀ Omo-Iya Kunmi

By
Peter Ayoade
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In barely 3 days after the death of the late former speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly and the Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, some fellows have stirred up some controversies as to why the Governor of the state, Engr. Seyi Makinde, who had a very close relationship with the deceased and considering the deceased efforts during the governor’s bid for the seat, had not deemed it fit to visit the family of the late Commissioner.

Despite the fact that the state government delegated a team which included the Secretary to the State Government, the Chief Press Secretary and led by the Deputy Governor, Engr. Rauf Olaniyan to pay a condolence visit to the family, yet some believed it was not enough.

One would have thought those who raised the concern did it genuinely, but its so appalling that the insitigators are not only being selfish but inconsiderate for choosing to play politics with the death of Rt. Hon. Kehinde Ayoola. They have gotten their hypocrisy wrapped in a cloth of pity all to incite the public’s emotions against the Governor.

Someone even went as far as writing an open letter to share his ‘sentiments’ about the governor not visiting the family. Cheap score! Mad crave for popularity, if you ask me!

Edakun, kini tiyin? Did the family of the late complain to you? Yeah, the governor had a close relationship with the deceased and that should tell you its possible the man is finding it difficult to come to terms with the death of his close ally.

Some time in 2016, I lost my school mother, aunty Lola. Until her death, we were so close. We spend weekends together in her fiance’s place in Ibadan, I sleep in her room and I had my copies of the keys of everything she owned that had locks. Thats to tell you how close we were.

When she died and her corpse was to be taken to Ibadan for the burial, I couldnt face it. I couldnt bring myself to look at her corpse. I didnt want anyone to console me. I instead asked my mom to come from Oyo to attend. I stayed back in my room crying and wasting away. It took me weeks to recover.

For those who have been there before, we should know that we react to grief differently. You can never speak for anyone on this issue. Let who ever chose to visit the family, do so in good faith. Visiting doesn’t mean you love him and not visiting does not prove he didnt mean anything to you. Abi whats the point in engaging in cheap eye service?

Do not allow the hypocrisy of individuals who reek of political sentiments and prejudice get to you.

Let the dead sleep in peace!

Omo-Iya Kunmi wrote from Oyo Alaafin

BREAKING: Oyo COVID-19 Confirmed Cases Hits 107. ā€¢Situation Under Control – Makinde

By
Peter Ayoade
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Oyo State has recorded 31 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the state to 107. The State is now 12th position on the Nigeria COVID-19 log.Ā 

The Executive Governor of Oyo State and Chairman Oyo State Taskforce on COVID-19 made this known via his official facebook page

According to Makinde, “the COVID-19 confirmation tests for thirty-one suspected cases came back POSITIVE. Thirty of these cases are members of staff of the same organisation based in Ibadan South West Local Government Area. The organisation has been shut down and will be decontaminated”

The governor urged members of the public to remain calm as the situation is under control. He said the state Taskforce has Intensified contact tracing.

“The remaining one case is from Egbeda Local Government Area. So, the total number of confirmed cases in Oyo State as at 8 PM today, is 107”

Meanwhile, the Nigeria Centre for Control of Disease (NCDC) on Saturday 16th May 2020 has confirmed 176 new cases in the FCT and 13 other states.

According to NCDC via its Twitter handle, total confirmed cases in Nigeria now stand at 5621; 1472 have been discharged and 176 deaths have been recorded so far.

Here is the breakdown of the new confirmed cases of COVID-19:

95-LagosĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā  31-OyoĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  11-FCT

8-NigerĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  8-BornoĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  6-Jigawa

4-KadunaĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā  3-AnambraĀ Ā Ā Ā  2-Edo

2-RiversĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  2-NasarawaĀ Ā Ā  2-Bauchi

1-BenueĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  1-Zamfara

 

COVID-19: The Gimmicks of NCDC Plc

By
Peter Ayoade
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COVID-19: Between the Sickness and the Business (The Gimmicks of NCDC Plc)

By Stanley Ajileye

The 2019 Model/Edition of Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) is real and it may have come to stay, as predicted by my General Overseer, Pastor E. A. Adeboye during the first week of this endemic.

The truth is however that, in the midst of this reality, is a subtle magnification of the potency of the disease for financial gain of some.
My mission here is not to delve into macro analysis of the political economy of Covid-19, on this, I retain my stand with Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, whose exposition about the disease being an alibi, created to cover-up the potential danger of the 5G Telecom invention, is being confirmed in latest developments.

My mission here is to examine the roles of the “Brother Jeros” committee called Naotiinal Commission for Disease Control (NCDC Plc).
One has continued to wonder at the contradiction that exist between the overwhelming campaign on the dreadfulness of the disease and the care-free attitude of NCDC when it comes to the aggregate sincerity in the actual management of the confirmed cases.

We have heard tales of woe from various commoners on isolation across the country; where they are served ‘Vitamin C’ as immune booster and nothing more. Some of them who are not as lucky, are made to call their people to buy them vitamin c or even paracetamol from home. We are all living witnesses to the protest from one of the isolation centres in the northern part of this country, where they matched out of isolation because of high level starvation.

Why is NCDC so bent on isolation of people, when they can as well remain at home and take vitamin C and several other medications that have proved relative success.

The truth is that, thousands of households may have contracted COVID-19 and got rid of it locally without NCDC knowing about it.

Honestly, with everything one have read about Covid-19, the pandemic (or endemic as we may soon discover) is not as sturbbon as Malaria or Typhoid fever which Nigerian has put under reasonable control.

Nigeria will not gain control over Covid-19, if our Brother Jeros at NCDC is allowed to continue on this smooth ride. They love to exaggerate the might of the pandemic, in orde to continue to enjoy financial patronage from donors.

One question that is begging for answer, is why NCDC is so secretive about the available medications? Why is the committee playing the cards so close to its chests?

If patients of Tuberculosis are not on isolation, if they can be treated in our local clinics, why not Covid-19?

Majority of people who were alleged to have died of Covid-19 today, may have been killed by other ailments they were managing, which our isolation centres were not concerned with. If such people still had access to their doctors, who are familiar with their medical history, they may live.

Now the whole economy of Nigeria is in convulsion while the ministry of Brother Jero is flourishing: Both international and local donors including churches and other corporate bodies, are falling on one another in palliative contest, yet, only our Brother Jeros are smiling to the banks.

For instance, there is this grapevine report making the rounds on social media. I have tried without success at confirming the veracity of the report that the nation within the first two weeks of the pandemic spent N100 billion on palliatives. I am sure no government official will say this. The total population of Nigeria is about 200 million. Everybody knows that the ridiculous palliatives were scattered around few places in selected cities; with some households in Lagos getting as little as a single sachet of tomato and less than 1kg measure of rice.

How such a huge figure of N100 billion came to be, remains a big question.

With Covid-19, it is business as usual for our Brother Jeros. While the nation was on lockdown, the bank accounts of our Jeros were ajar- the principal purpose for the unnecessary quarantine.

Their devious plan blindfolded them to the extent of inserting into the maiden Presidential broadcast, such clause as the continuation of “school feeding system” during the lockdown when no school is open. It is business as usual.

To come out straight, NCDC may not in the real sense of its operation, be anything more than a business outfit of some few individuals, decorated with togas of life-savers.

By their operations, safety of lives is the last thing on their mind. That explains why they hardly respond to distress calls from individuals that manifest symptoms of Covid-19. In most cases, the call lines were either non-functional or deactivated.

Their operations are secretive and underlaid with unpardonable lies. While the whole nations were forced to stay in door, the flew in Chinese Engineers to install 5G on our streets under pretexts that the men are health workers sent from China to assist us in the fight against Covid-19. I challenge top official of Federal government to come out and tell Nigerian that the whole lockdown foisted on Nigerians was not a conspiracy designed to satisfy the business interest of their foreign partners.

This is why I will give kudos to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State and his Cross River State counterpart. Both have successfully demystified the pandemic and the lies of NCDC is exposed.

This of course is the first thing that makes me a proud citizen of Kogi State in the last four years.

That Kogi is totally free of Covid-19 today, is a sure proof that NCDC is the agent and distributor of Covid-19. Their lies will not be hidden for too long. The dew has come and the house they built with spittle will soon crumble.

Stanley Ajileye writes from Lokoja, Kogi State

OF THE GREATEST NIGERIAN STUDENTS! HOW DID WE GET HERE?

By
Peter Ayoade
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By Ogunwoye Samson Gbemiga

The epoch making aphorism of “Student’s Union in Exile” would jingle a bell in the mind of every individual that is familiar with the student’s struggle against military junta in the 1990s. No doubt, the activities of some student unionists in the said era made an epoch itself.

Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Dr. Beko Ransom Kuti, Mr. Femi Falana and others were all arraigned for treason by Military Junta of Ibrahim Babangida at Chief Gwagwalada Margistrate Court in 1993, in the spirit of solidarity, student’s leaders from the nascent University of Abuja mobilized themselves to the court, their apperance in the court was intimidating, that culminated to struggle of many years. Here we get our pride as students of prestigious University of Abuja, but I will leave that history for another day.

The point I was trying to make above is that Student’s Activism, specifically under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has been a greater instrument for social movement and changes since it inception in 1956. Today, the departure part from the activism of the past is the obvious dearth of ideology and the voracious appetite for material gains.

Looking closely, it becomes lucid that most of the people that called themselves Student’s leaders today are bereaved of ideology and theory that begot activism from the onset, the crop of Student’s activists today have been totally detached from the noble background, they have lost their voice to the thin air and hunger, no wonder nobody takes student’s leaders serious again, Omoyele Sowore in his SaharaReporter blog did a great disservice by referring to NANS as National Association of Nigerian Scallywags.

Well, to revive our souls, let me illuminate the path of some younger “Comrades” on the heroic deeds of our progenitors in unionism. Apart from the obvious fact that all our foremost nationalists drank and were also baptized in the pool activism from their school days, in 1962 to be precise, Nigeria was to be made a military satellite state to erstwhile Colonial Master, this was proposed in the Anglo-Nigeria Defence Pact, most of our political leaders who were looking for favour from abroad had already signed the treaty until National Union Of Nigerian Students (NUNS), under the leadership of President Rasaki Solaja and Vice President Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi mobilized the students, most especially from University College of Ibadan to stand against it, they defeated the international conspiracy with their unwavering determination. Where is that spirit today?

The famous Ali Must Go movement of 1978 is still fresh in the memory of those that are familiar with the antecedents of Student’s movement in Nigeria. Under the leader of Olusegun Okeowo, the NUNS President, there was an uproar in all parts of the country because the then Minister of Education, Col. Ahmadu Ali increased feeding fees from N1.5 to N2, that was an increment of 50Kobo that led to national hullabaloo. Today, tuitions are increased arbitrarily without any explanation and nobody seems to care.

Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo ended the era of NUNS with Ali Must Go in 1978, that paved way for NANS in 1981. Here is the irony of life, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo that banned NUNS in 1978 was endorsed for Third Term by the NANS President, Kenneth Okurma Hembe in 2005. Has the labour of our past heroes not been in vain?

Accordingly, Emma Ezeazu and Salihu Lukman were two NANS Presidents that took a tough confrontational stance against Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and his Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) from 1986 to 1989. Although, they faced the carnivorous iron fist of IBB junta that almost crushed them, but history would always remember them for standing with Nigerian students and the general populace. Today, debt is piling up with different heinous policies from Government, but NANS is no longer a voice to reckon with.

In the beginning of my writing, I referred us to some of the activities of 1990s, we can’t exhaust all in this piece, but frankly, some NANS cadres bravely faced Abacha Junta and many Student’s leaders paid dearly for their actions. Abacha would go down in memory lane as the dark horse that splashed palm oil in the white garment of students Unionism. For the first time, NANS started having faction in 1994, Comfort Idika was the President of NANS that stood with the progressive pro-democratic elements while Baba Kasala presidency signaled the emergence of State capturing of Student’s Unionism, the pandemic that started gradually in 1994 has almost nailed the coffin of NANS today.

From 2000 till date, the experience with NANS has not been favourable to the populace of Nigerians. Today, almost every NANS Comrade belongs to one political party or the other, they are more loyal to the party than to our common consaguinity, the Government of the day dictates who get what, when and how in Student’s union. Director of State Security (DSS) is a major actor in every NANS Convention, they don’t intervene to provide security alone, they also meddle to help the power that be to enforce who gets what, when and how. How did we get here?

More worriedly, the present leadership of NANS that assumed office about two years ago has furthered aggravated the pathetic status of NANS, the incumbent NANS President has given about 7 ultimatums without succeeding in any of the struggle, probably he sold out or he lacked that ingredient called capacity, that will continue to trail his history.

Finally, our founding fathers would never imagined that a time would come that an office holder in NANS would accept a governmental appointment without relinquishing his position in NANS, presently, the Two Vice Presidents of NANS, the PRO, and the Treasurer have gotten appointments in line with their political parties, yet, everyone wants to us to be celebrating them without minding the provision of the Code of Conduct of NANS. How we got here still baffles every sane person! Probably everyone dances to the tune of his stomach. Shall we all continue to be sycophants and spell doom for futurity?. Thanks for following this trend as you await my next epistle “NANS: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?”.

Ogunwoye Samson Gbemiga
(OGUNSAMSON).
Master Student, University of Abuja.
ogunwoyesamson@gmail.com

COVID-19: NUJ asks Buhari to Rescue the media industry

By
Peter Ayoade
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The National Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has appealed for financial bailout from President Muhammadu Buhari, in order to save the Nigeria media industry from total collapse, as a result of the economic downturn caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.

In a letter, titled ā€œConvulsions in the Media Industry ,ā€ dated May 13th, signed by National President of council, Chris Isugizo and addressed to Buhari, the NUJ said ā€œthere can be no freedom of expression and freedom of the press where Journalists work under precarious situations and are exposed to poverty and fear.ā€

According to the letter, the media industry is instrumental to saving the COVID-19 crisis in the country from getting out of control.

The letter noted that the duty of the media in national development has become lucid and elaborate in the present time, more than ever, inspite of the ā€œlittle funds available to them because of shrinking advertisements, and high cost of operations, media houses can no longer comfortably pay these costs and offset staff salaries and emoluments.ā€

The letter reads in full ā€œWe are constrained once again to write this letter to Mr President, appealing for urgent intervention to save the media industry from collapse.

ā€œSir, permit us to state that, the social duties of Journalists in Nigeria include the advancement of the right to freedom of expression, access to information, freedom of the press, media independence, conflict transformation and peace building. These are prerequisites for open governance and development, the fight against corruption among others, which ultimately serve the public interest.

ā€œYour Excellency, there can be no freedom of expression and freedom of the press where Journalists work under precarious situations and are exposed to poverty and fear. Media organisations are daily being asphyxiated as a result of the economic downturn occasioned by the Covid 19 Pandemic.

ā€œYour Excellency, it is pertinent to draw your attention to these ugly developments and request for the urgent intervention of the Federal Government to arrest this dangerous trend. Specifically, we appeal for financial bailout for the media industry through the Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO) and the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria for privately owned media organisations in the country.

ā€œSir, this is a crisis situation of monumental proportion and we plead for your urgent intervention to avert a catarostophe.ā€

OPINION: Osun Governance: Oyetola and Aregbesola are Specialists in Failure

By
Peter Ayoade
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By Akintunde Bello Sheriff

By 2022, the ruling party otherwise called party for the progressives would have spent clear 16 years in the office with 3 Governors covering 4 administrations. Separately the opposition party otherwise called the conservatives had only spent two aborted tenures with only 1 Governor totaling less than 8 years.

During the era of Oyinlola Olagunsoye as a Governor, the health sector was seriously alive with free drugs occupying government stores which were readily available at all health posts across the 332 Wards and the Area Office in Osun State. My Father is a pharmacy technician in those years and so I knew what it looked like. To be fair to the Alliance for Democracy era of Chief Bisi Akande, the health sector was never dead under him. I used to listen to the radio in 1999/2000 where the government would advertise its free surgical palliatives. It was the time that prostate issues in men was simple to treat like common headache. On labe odan – a radio feedbacks program that the Governor of the time devised, they called the surgical palliative Ipake. One thing was common to Oyinlola and Bisi Akande, they did their very best in the health sector.

As soon as Rauf Aregbesola became Governor, the gains in the health sector eluded our state. Things became stringently so much that illnesses are no longer reported because the drugs stores have become empty. What you get at government health centres is a commercial service where health attendants now sell drugs. In fact they sell exercise books with which prescription will be recorded. One sector where Aregbesola failed woefully is health. And this Oyetola current rule has sustained the continuity agenda along that failed curve in the health sector. Except that they are now building or has built some health posts which source of funding was through international grants, which was commenced by Aregbesola and now inherited by the Oyetola administration, the condition of service has not changed for better. Health workers are stranded on a stagnant point where they do not have promotion or in which their promotion do not fetch financial effect. The zeal to deliver is no longer there and the motivation is near zero. Lanterns and touch lights are used to supervise deliveries and many avoidable deaths are unfortunately the case till date.

In those years of Oyinlola Olagunsoye, capital and infrastructure developments littered everywhere and virtually all the councils. The artisans had every reason to appreciate God that the government has opened their businesses for patronages. Workers get paid regularly. Pensioners are not groaning in neglect as was the case during the immediate past administration which still subsists even till now. To be fair in my assessment, some will say that Aregbesola recorded some tangible scorecards in infrastructure. However what separates Bisi Akande and Oyinlola Olagunsoye from the later Governors namely Aregbesola and Oyetola is that debts did not pile up. May God bless the ingenuity of the first two democratic Governors between 1999 – 2010 since the scope of my discourse has been limited to only the fourth republic. We were casted and sold to slavery of debts under Aregbesola. Most of the acclaimed projects for which the debts were taken are still uncompleted till today despite drawing total money and no probes has been instituted. This is the CONTINUITY agenda according to Gboyega Oyetola, an agenda that has thrown hitherto breadwinners especially the retired civil servants to abject poverty stricken individuals because their entitlements are trapped with the government. God is not happy at the turn of events. The economy is now far worse hit. The supposed rich are crying too in Osun State.

In the education sector, much as Bisi Akande did not do well in that sector, Oyinlola Olagunsoye rebirth the sector evidently and there was tremendous improvement which translated in the pass rate of public schools pupils and students. Free education was declared. Free exercise books, free textbooks, regime of no form of payment, inter house sports competitions with adequate grants, free school feeding for pupils, motivation for the teachers which include improved cars and housing loans to the Staff in public education sector was the order of the day. When Aregbesola resumed office in 2010, most if not all of these palliatives are suspended and that remain in force till date. This was the story of how our glory as a State of the living spring fainted to oblivion gradually and nobody was concerned.

The traditional institution lived larger than life. It was glaring that despite constitutional barriers, the Obas are given a say in how governance was run. Some Obas even had cabinet slots such as Commissioners filled. They had their regular Obas council meetings and the local government system was viable to support them unlike now that the third tier of government now live in shadows in Osun State. The things we met are are nonexistent again. Where will help come from?

As things stand today in Osun State, the walk to true liberty and freedom may look herculean but it is not impossible. Citizens must therefore begin to be conscious and decide whether to remain in an imposed servitude or demand for a new lease of life by a way of change of guards.

If it was rotational, between a party that has been in the saddle for 20 years and another party which managed to be in control for less than 8 years, we know ourselves which deserve our cooperation. I implore Osun State people to think above mundane appetite, and start to embark on the journey that shall make our State great again. God knows I love Osun State and I am sad that almost everybody are now going low and low leaving only the opportunists to eke big status to the detriment of the downtrodden.

I pray for Osun State sake of this holy month for our breakthrough so as to live up to the dreams of our founding Fathers. Osun, the State of the Living Spring, you can not afford to die forever!!!

Com. Akintunde Bello Sheriff (ABS) is a socio-political analyst from Ede, Osun State

BREAKING: Buhari Receives Madagascarā€™s Covid-19 Cure, says it will be subjected to verification

By
Peter Ayoade
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday at the State House, Abuja, received a consignment of Madagascarā€™s Covid-Organics (CVO), a herbal tonic touted as a cure for COVID-19. Buhari reiterated that he will listen to science before allowing traditional or any new medicines to be administered on Nigerians.

At an audience meeting with President Umaro Embalo of Guinea Bissau who brought along with him the samples of the traditional medicine as shared to African nations by Madagascar, PMB said his position on all such herbal or traditional medicinal postulates had remained the same.

ā€œWe have our institutions, systems and processes in the country. Any such formulations should be sent to them for verification. I will not put it to use without the endorsement of our institutions,ā€ said the Nigerian President.

On the main reason for his visit, President Embalo said having stabilized his country after the tussles that attended the general elections won by him, he had come to seek counsel from his ā€œfather,ā€ President Buhari on his plan for a ā€œgovernment of national unity and a proposed war against corruption in his country.

He also said that his new government met a country beset with a number of issues and problems, the resolution of which would require tremendous assistance from the ā€œbig brother,ā€ Nigeria.

ā€œProblems of Guinea Bissau are problems of Nigeria. I have come to you as your son. I need your help and assistance to make the people happy. I will not let you down, neither will I put you in any difficult situation,ā€ the visiting leader told President Buhari.

In response to these demands, the Nigerian leader commended ā€œGeneralā€œ Embalo on his confirmation as President and for stabilizing the country. ā€œI commend your political dexterity in getting the opposition to join the proposed unity government,ā€ he said.

President Buhari restated the determination of Nigeria to keep West Africa politically stable and promised to support the new government in Guinea Bissau. ā€œI will cooperate and help in every way possible,ā€ assured the Nigerian President.

President Buhari also used the opportunity of the visit to praise the good work that the President of Niger Republic, Mahamadou Issoufou, who is the current Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is doing in the sub-region, and commended him for keeping him informed of all that is happening around.

Oyo Social Media Influencers Mourn Hon. Ayoola

By
Peter Ayoade
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Social media influencers in Oyo State are mourning the loss of one of their own, Hon. Kehinde Ayoola who was Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources in Oyo State until his demise.

Under Ayoolaā€™s watch as the Environment Commissioner, the Oyo State Government inaugurated four environmental tribunals for the enforcement of the state environmental laws.

The Ayoola graduated of Animal Science and Environmental Management and Control from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He was a member of Association of Environmental Impact Assessment of Nigeria. The late commissioner married to a Professor of Agronomy, Olukemi and left behind two sons.

Since his death on Thursday 14th May 2020, the social media is inundated with tributes, condolence messages and prayers. The PACESETTER NEWS collated reactions, tributes and condolence messages of some social media influencers from Oyo State.

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Wasiu Olawale Sadare:

Hon. Kehinde Ayoola’s death is a personal loss to me… Intelligent, refined, committed, loving and charming. Oh, my God!

Is death worth being called a good angel? With no emotions, he pollutes emotions… What does he tell his victim after the strike?

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Engr. Akeem Olatunji

For we brought nothing into this world and we shall take nothing from it. Please, be humble…

May your soul rest in perfect peace dear Honorable Commissioner Kehinde Ā Ayoola JP

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Adeniyi Rotimi Johnson

I met Hon Ayoola in Jan 2000 & was my leader till yesterday when he led a journey no one would follow. RIP my Political Mentor.

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Adetunbi Saheed Ige

When they say “Life is Vanity”

Now, I have a deeper understanding

Farewell Uncle Olatunji K Ayoola JP

You gave your best to humanity

A refined politician you were

A complete gentleman, highly cerebral, very resourceful.

Rest well my very good Egbon.

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Queen Temmy

Igi to too…Ki pee n igbo.

Rest on Hon.kehinde Olatunji K Ayoola JP.Adieu!

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ā€˜Funlola Adesina

ā€œKehinde Ayoola was the most recognized intellectual face of Makindeā€™s government whose experience, dynamism and charisma were to have galvanized the government he served which he also helped to bring on board.ā€

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Sometime in 1999, I had the priviledge of listening to the inaugural/acceptance speech of Hon Kehinde Olatunji K Ayoola JP as the first speaker of the House of Assembly in the 4th Republic. He exhibited brilliance and eloquence that day and I said to myself that I would meet him one day.

Facebook provided the opportunity sometime around 2010 and since then he has remained my egbon indeed.

I really liked him.

Rest in peace, Uncle. We will keep holding the fort.

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Ayantoye Christopher Ayanniyi

Rt. Hon. Kehinde Ayoola, why would a pretty bird fly away at a time there is more for her to do at home?

Rest on! So sad!!

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Onike Rahaman

The sudden death of Hon.Kehinde Ayoola is a reminder that we came to the world in succession & we shall be leaving one after the other.It also shows theĀ  nothingness of life.

Hon.Kehinde Ayoola will forever be remembered for indelible contributions to nation’s socio-economic & political development in his private & public life as politician and public intellectual.

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Generalissimo For-Dmasses II

I have decided to be offline today but a sudden call came

Announcing the BAD NEWS

I STILL SHIVERING.

NO TELL ME IS A LIE

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Ibikunle Titus Oloruntunmise

I could not hold my tears when I heard the news of your death. You mean so much to me and I always see the future in you. You should not have left at this time when we needed you most. You promised me last time you will always give in your best for the progress of Oyo state which I believe in you. But why? You should haveĀ  asked your creator to giveĀ  you more time to complete the task ahead of you. You did not do well JP, you did not do well at all.Ā  You let tears rolls in my eyesĀ  unexpectedly, but its unfortunate we did not have power over the creator. We shall continue to miss you forever. Continue to rest in peace Hon kehinde Olatunji K AyoolaJP

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Aremu John Olatunji

DEATH no doubt is an inestimable end which must come when it will come. If it comes to a beloved one, the grief of all those affected as a result of the death can best be imagined, especially when it becomes very obvious that never again can such a fellow be seen or heard.

It was the same grief I fell into when I heard of your exit out of this planet earth,I was in hospital with my wife when your sudden death filtered the whole social media.

The last time we engaged ourselves was when we were debating on youth participation in Agriculture but today you are no more,which shows that we all have a limited time on this planet.

RT.HON. Kehinde Ayoola on behalf of ZENITH LABOUR PARTY (YOUTH WING) we commiserate with the governor of Oyo state and the entire cabinet members and most especially your family,we pray the Lord God will give them the fortitude to bear the great loss of a political icon in the state.

Continue to rest in peace till will meet again.

Prince John Oyetunji Aremu

ZLP YOUTH LEADER

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Kola Adebiyi

Late Kehinde Ayoola was a good man; a very good man!

The only issue I had with him was that he was playing politics with Ajimobi’s administration.

I used to respect him a lot irrespective of our differences over political matters ( there was a 31st of December that I tagged him the most responsible man of the year in my post).

I stopped my regards for him when he blocked me on Facebook for no reason the day he became a commissioner.

It’s a pity he blocked me before his demise. I would have downloaded some of our conversations inbox.

Sometimes when I made posts against his party, he would inbox me and say, “KĆ³lĆ”, sĆ© Ć³le tĆ³yen ni?”

I would reply him sometimes, “Sir, your people should not be spared because they had done worse than that”.

Then, we would have a long conversation even beyond politics. That happened several times.

Now that he is no more, and playing politics has ceased, my love for him shall be for eternity.

Take your greatness beyond, powerful Mr Speaker.

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Adediran Kafilat Iyabode

I deliberately leave this picx in my archive to celebrate your next birthday not knowing that it will be used to mourn your death..šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­

Ooooooh my God!!!!.Who will now fulfil the promise you made to me during our last meeting????…šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­..

***Rt. Hon.Kehinde Ayoola has gone to the journey of no return..šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­
****A great asset is gone…
****My Adviser is gone…
**** A confidant is gone…

Ooooooh nooooooo…My heart is heavyšŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­

Late Commissioner Ayoola was my Political Soulmate – Ologburo

By
Peter Ayoade
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A frontline businessman, political strategist and one of foremost associates of Honourable Kehinde Ayoola, the late Commissioner of Environment and Natural Resources in Oyo State, Alhaji Babatunde Ologburo has said that the sudden death of Ayoola was a personal loss.

Ologburo who hails from same Oyo township with the deceased said in a press release personally signed by him on Saturday, 16 May, that the late commissioner was his ā€˜political soulmate,ā€™ and news of his sudden death leaves him devastated.

He said: ā€œWe have been very close right from his entry into politics. Beyond the fact that we share the same passion for the development of OYO township where we both hailed, Honourable Ayoola at every point, allowed me access to make inputs into many of his political decisions and such was our relationship that we were constantly cross-checking perspectives on political strategy. He was such a wonderful political soulmate.

ā€œEven when we had a brief disagreement along party lines, we never stopped our political relationship. His office was my second office. He was brilliant, intelligent, and precise with his political calculations.
ā€œKenny wore a look of pride – like anyone of Oyo origin – but his character was imbued in utmost humility.

ā€œHe was a patriotic Nigerian and a committed family man per excellence. He served his country and family dutifully, but his devotion to God was without compare. He lived an exceptionally good life and I believe that he has gone to meet the face of his creator.

ā€œI pray for his bereaved family to find the fortitude to bear this huge loss and for the Almighty God to stand by and console his family and the large assembly of his associates.ā€

Dele Momodu @60: Relationship Beyond Ovation By Olayinka Agboola

By
Peter Ayoade
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We were all born to achieve different purposes in life. Yes. We all desire to be successful but most of us never really develop that critical sense of focus, passion and perseverance.

Ayobamidele Abayomi Ojutelegan Ajani Momodu had all these ā€˜packagedā€™ for him in copious measures by the Creator as he journeyed down to this world sixty years ago.

It has been a very long time since I wrote tributes like this about anybody, anywhere. I have, perhaps, become lazy or maybe I have been too busy keeping myself and my businesses alive to bother about scripting eulogies to deserving friends and loved ones.

I can quickly submit here before I forget that I am yet to meet a Nigerian that has passion for Journalism as much as Basorun Dele Momodu. And I have so many reasons for my submission. It is no gainsaying that the Creator bestowed on him a far more than average intelligence quotient matched with a gargantuan native balance to push ahead in life. He is truly a man with a divine mission.

How did I meet Basorun?

I first met him while I was a student of the defunct Oyo State College of Arts and Science (OSCAS), Ile Ife, Osun State in 1982 after I left Lagelu Grammar School, Ibadan.

Even at that time, it was obvious he was going to end up in life as a popular man. I knew him. But I was sure he did not know me. I was certainly not one of those to attract his attention that time. He was one of our young lecturers and I recall that he handled English Literature under Mr Ogunmodede then. But he was so popular we all called him ā€˜Dele Madā€™. How we came about that, I cannot readily recollect here. Seye Oyeleyo of DAWN Commission, a friend and fellow student at that time may recollectā€¦

After our encounter in Ile Ife, I did not get to hear anything about him until I got to Lagos in 1991.The story of my sojourn in Lagos will come later (if I end up squeezing time to knock it together).

I landed in Lagos after serving in Bauchi and running a company with Brother Gbenga Adeyemi (Guze), the elder brother of one of my mates at Lagelu Grammar School, Ibadan. I left the North-Eastern city owing to the religious riots that broke out in 1991. I thereafter chose to stay briefly in Ibadan before proceeding to Lagos in tandem with the adrenalin of adventure which had overtaken my being. I took my fatherā€™s car with me. It was this car that I used in borrowing money to uplift the career of a popular juju musician in whose talent I had faith. He defaulted in paying and the issue became a media war between us. I still have copies of editions of The Punch, Daily Sketch, Vanguard, Nigerian Tribune, Daily Times, Hints and several others who published our ā€˜warā€™ then. It was during this brouhaha in 1992 that I encountered Dele Momodu officially.

Apparently, he read about the media brickbats the musician and I were throwing at each other and somehow, we met and he sat me down for a serious lecture. During the session, he told me the story of how he fell out with his own boss too, late May Helen Ezekiel who owned Classique Magazine. He told me about how he started a media war against her before Otunba Mike Adenuga, the owner of Globacom lectured him on why it is against the laws of propriety to engage close associates or friends in media war. This drew me to Momodu and prompted me to immediately drop my ā€˜toga of battle’ to follow him just like Peter began to follow Christ the Messiah.

By this time, he was a major distributor of the now defunct famous Abiola Bread owned by late Basorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. He sold bread with his blue-colored Volkswagen Jetta Car. At the same time, he was a Contributing Editor at the defunct FAME WEEKLY MAGAZINE where he maintained a weekly column, PENDULUM.

Bob Dee, as I met others calling him that time was the man everybody wanted to talk to and be with. His column was one of the very major reasons people bought FAME WEEKLY MAGAZINE. The directors then were Mayor Akinpelu, Kunle Bakare and Femi Akintunde-Johnson.

Unofficially, I became Bob Deeā€™s Personal Assistant running stuffs for him. I must at this point confess that this new relationship with the prolific writer fanned the flair for writing in me. I would take the manuscript of his PENDULUM from him as he wrote each page and re-write. I never really graduated as an apprentice writer because we almost immediately got involved with the MKO Abiola presidential campaign.

Bob Dee got his friends to employ me as a reporter at FAME WEEKLY. I was put under the late WALE OLOMU to also learn how to write entertainment stories. But Dele Momodu was still my boss.

Later, Prince Nduka Obaigbena asked Bob Dee to set up THISDAY Newspapers for him. He gave him a brand new Peugeot 504. Before this time, Chief MKO Abiola had arranged for a grey Mercedes Benz for him.

The newspaper took off somewhere on Norman Williams in Ikoyi, if I still remember. Okagbue Aduba, a complete gentleman, was brought in as the pioneer Editor. This is an interesting story for another day.

The point here is that Bob Dee put everything he had behind everything he did and is still doing. He is an excellent multi-tasking guru who kept his weekly column writing alongside his private consultancy businesses while still ensuring that THISDAY took off even as he continued running stuffs for MKO Abiola and his campaign team.

Permit me if I miss anything out because at this point, things started moving at a dizzying pace. The Jos Primary election that produced MKO Abiola took place; Baba Gana Kingibe was chosen as his running mate; their party was Social Democratic Party (SDP);Bashir Tofa emerged as the candidate of NRC; the elections held and MKO won. Yes, he won. Thereafter, the June 12, 1993 struggle started. We all abandoned what we were doing to concentrate on how to actualize the mandate given to the legendary MKO.

At this time, the owner of THISDAY, Nduka Obaigbena had become a strong anti-June 12 advocate. He wanted Bob Dee to join him. Of course, Dele Momodu declined, stuck to the June 12 struggle. He never wavered. He was resolute. This landed him in Alagbon. He was detained for several days. After this, we smuggled him out of Nigeria to the United Kingdom.

While in London, he never allowed the challenges he faced in the bid to firmly entrench himself in his new abode to obliterate his passion for journalism. This was how he ā€˜conjured upā€™ with the idea of establishing OVATION INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE.

For those who do not know, we operated in Lagos like a ā€˜triumvirate familyā€™. Dele Momodu was the father, Kunle Bakare of the then, Fame Weekly Magazine was his best friend and son and I was the grandson. In those days, if one of us was at the then famous Nite Shift Nite Club with Ken Calebs Olumhese, you could be sure the others were around. Such was the strength of the chord that bound us! The rest is history.

When he therefore came up with the idea of OVATION INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE, he relied on Kunle Bakare and my humble self. We handled the Nigerian end of the business. We would arrange for materials and send to him. He would then package and publish and send to Nigeria. We distributed the magazines alongside FAME WEEKLY.

Somehow, Bob Dee and Kunle Bakare fell out. This became a huge dilemma for me. I assumed Kunle Bakare was my best friend that time. God bless his enigmatic wife, Desola. I was unfortunately caught in the middle of a quarrel between two great friends. I did not know what to do or on whose side to stay. Bob Dee was my boss. Bakare also known as Mr. KB was my friend.

It took me almost three months to make up my mind on what to do. I give thanks to God for the lives of Chief Ezekiel Fatoye, Godwin Mekwuye of Vivid Imagination, Hassan Fatungase of the then Bakersā€™ World and Sir Doksy, now Oba Adedokun Abolarin, the Orangun of Oke Ila; late Sonny Okosuns, Olabode Opeseitan, Daniel Wilson and Daddy Showkey. They helped me to make up my mind.

I had two options -join Kunle Bakare and abandon the OVATION INTERNATIONAL project, or stay with Dele Momodu and lose KBā€™s friendship and resign from Fame Weekly as Assistant Editor.

Chief Fatoye, Hassan Fatungase, Vivid and Doksy and others all asked me one questionā€¦How did you meet the two warring gentlemen? My answer, ā€˜Dele Momodu introduced me to Kunle Bakareā€™. Then, they unanimously advised me to stay with Dele Momodu, who, at this time could not come to Nigeria.

After this admonition, I packed Ovation Magazineā€™s documents and all appertaining to it out of the Wemabod Estate, Ikeja office of FAME WEEKLY MAGAZINE to Afisman Drive, Anifowose in Central Ikeja where late Brother Rotimi Seriki(another wonderful soul), the husband of senior sister of Dele Momodu’s wife had a ready office for Ovation Magazine. So, the business of running the magazine continued under my humble self. And this was an assignment I carried out to the best of my ABILITY. Afterall, I could not have offered what I did not have. The rest is historyā€¦

As someone close to him at that time, I learnt so many lessons following him around, I learnt to practically worship him because he was to me, an enigma. He could speak both Yoruba and English fluently, he could write both, he was creative and he was extremely humane. He loved to read and had a very rich library. These were the virtues in him that served to cement our bond.

I stand the risk of sounding like a broken record but, permit me to mention specific examples to buttress the virtues that made Bob Dee tick.

Selfless

Bob Dee was not a rich man, but I saw him, at that time, sponsor at least four young men through their Law School programmes. One of them, Barrister Bamidele Abolarin (Super Dee) lives in Ibadan like me today.

Live and Let Live

Bob Dee lived for the day. If he had ten thousand naira, he would dash out eight and keep two. And if he had reason to dash out the two, he would. Fellow journalists would come to him at his Adigboluja, Ojodu, Lagos residence with myriads of problems and he would not only listen, he would lift fingers to support. Examples are too numerous to mention here. One of us then had problems with his wife because he did not have a car. Dele Momodu dashed him his Jetta Car!

Courageous and Committed

If you are looking for an example of courage, Bob Dee was one. For those who can remember, in 1993 during the heat of the election annulment, Bob Dee staged a ā€˜coupā€™ which saw the leader of the infamous Association for Better Nigeria (ABN), Chief Abimbola Davis speaking to the press from The Kitchen Restaurant on Allen Avenue. After the epochal media meeting, we all ran away. Davis was smuggled out of Lagos to Togo using a Peugeot 504 car that I was commissioned to arrange. Bob Dee also disappeared while I escaped to Ibadan. In addition, Bob Dee was in charge of several underground moves to actualize the June 12 mandate of MKO.

Today, on behalf of my wife, Oluwatoyin and children, I thank him for being a great mentor to me despite our differences. He taught me that I must always restrict myself to my area of competence, be contented and to always stay on my own lane. He also lectured me on the need to dress well and be decent at all times. These orientations I got from the great Bob Dee, added to the Grace of God have helped me in life. This, to me is a relationship, brotherhood beyond Ovation. I am always proud to associate with this selfless mentor.

Basorun Dele Momodu, omo Iya Oyo, happy 60th birthday sir! God bless you, God bless your elegant wife, Omobolaji and all your children.

  • Olayinka Agboola is the Crew Leader at Parrot Xtra Magazine, PMParrot.com and Parrot Xtra Hour On Radio

ASUU: UNIOSUN Virtual Matriculation is a SCAM!

By
Peter Ayoade
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Friday described the Virtual matriculation organised by the Vice Chancellor, Osun State University, Professor Labode Popoola as a scam.

The Union lashed out the the VC alleging that he was aiming to use the matriculation to get financial favour from the federal government.

The Union stated that its Strike was still on to get Federal government commit funds to infrastructure including Information Communication Technology which is central to online delivery mode.

In a release signed by the Ibadan Zonal coordinator of ASUU ,Professor Ade Adejumo, ASUU described the virtual matriculation as a charade.

The Ibadan Zone of ASUU comprised University of Ibadan, Ladoke Akintola University, University of Ilorin, Kwara State University and Osun State University.

According to the Union, the University has succeeded in exposing the hapless students whose parents are experiencing non-payment of salaries, amputated salaries, disengagement and rightsizing due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world to be exploited by cybercafe operators.

ASUU noted that poor students do not have the wherewithal to cope with financial demands of online learning saying this is why ASUU is on strike to make Government fund revatilisation of infrastructure including ICT.

The University of Osun had conducted virtual matriculation in a ceremony attended by only the principal officers of the institution led by the Vice Chancellor, Labode Popoola who stated that the institution will strive to be a 21st century university.

But ASUU stated that UNIOSUN cannot complete effectively as it lacks the infrastructure to execute e-learning delivery.

According to the Union, members of the Union are on strike adding that the students should not be scammed to expect virtual classroom.

ASUU maintained that many public varsities have weak to non-existence ICT infrastructure adding that government must fund ICT infrastructure if it is interested in delivery e-learning in Post COVID-19 era.

” In the UNIOSUN’s Vice-Chancellor’s heart of heart, can he honestly beat his chest that all the students of that University have wherewithal to key into his e-learning platform. Moreso,given the fact that majority of the students are from very humble backgrounds, is this policy not a ploy to shut out such students from accessing the teaching and learning interaction? Mr Vice-Chancellor should come out clearly to tell the nation what his real motives are? We suspect, the motivation here is financial rather than altruistic. Is this another antic to undermine ASUU that the VC knows is currently on strike?

To this, we say anyone who works at cross-purposes with our Union’s patriotic struggle to improve funding of public universities, is an enemy of the people. Anyone, in the guise of being a Vice-Chancellor, who subverts the current struggle of the union, through organising of phoney teaching arrangement, which the Nigerian public universities cannot effectively deliver, is living in self-deceit and a fool’s paradise. But for ASUU’s historic struggles, will characters like Prof. Labo Popoola have any meaningful public university to preside over as Vice-Chancellors? For avoidance of doubt, this struggle will succeed like others before it to the eternal shame of characters in the mould of the Vice-Chancellor under reference here.”

COVID-19 UPDATE: Oyo Records Fresh Cases, now 13th on the log

By
Peter Ayoade
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Three new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Oyo State. The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced this on her official twitter handle @NCDCgov.

This brings the total figure of confirmed cases in the state to 76. The little spike moves Oyo State to 13th position on the Nigeria COVID-19 log.

Governor Seyi Makinde while confirming the report yesterday via his official facebook page, said two cases are from Oriire Local Government Area and one is from Oluyole Local Government Area.

According to the NCDC update, 288 new cases have been confirmed in 15 States. The total number of confirmed cases is 5445 as at Friday 15th May 2020. Total Discharged cases stand at 1320 while 171 Deaths cases have been recorded so far.

Below is the breakdown of the new confirmed cases across the country.

179-Lagos 20-Kaduna 15-Katsina

15-Jigawa 13-Borno 11-Ogun

8-Kano 7-FCT 4-Niger

4-Ekiti 3-Oyo 3-Delta

3-Bauchi 2-Kwara 1-Edo

Ayoola’s Passing Leaves Sour Taste in my mouth, says Sharafadeen AlliĀ 

By
Peter Ayoade
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A former Secretary to the Oyo State Government, Chief Sharafadeen Abiodun Alli on Friday described the death of a serving Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources in the State, Hon. Kehinde Ayoola as “a pill too bitter to swallow.”

Oloye Sharafadeen Alli in a statement personally signed by him and made available to newsmen, said, “Ayoola’s passing leaves sour taste in my mouth.”

According to him, “the news of the demise of Rt. Hon. Kehinde Ayoola came as a rude shock and a pill too bitter to swallow for me. As a matter of fact, it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

“Reason is: Kehinde whom I normally called Kenny was a friend and co-traveler in the journey of politics for the sake of the people and egalitarianism of our dear State.

“After leaving the Oyo State House of Assembly in 2003, Kenny had built himself up politically and academically. He was so well read resulting in his ability to contribute meaningfully to discussion on almost any topical matters and State of the nation affairs as a whole.

“A cerebral and widely read personality, Kenny was so passionate about Oyo, his home town.

“He was also an exemplary family man and a gentleman to the core.

“He had the ability to see both sides of any issue hence his ability to build bridges in time of conflict.

“It is thus so painful now that Kenny had an opportunity, in a government he helped put in place, to put to use all the knowledge and experience gathered over the years, but death took him away!

“We will miss him so dearly. Oyo state has lost a rare gem. My brother, Governor Seyi Makinde has lost one of his ‘best eleven’.

“May Allah grant all of us including the family (who he loved so much) the fortitude to bear this irreplaceable loss,” Alli added.

Just In: Ajimobi Felicitates Buhari over Abba Kyari’s Successor

By
Peter Ayoade
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The Deputy National Chairman (South) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Abiola Ajimobi has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari over the appointment of Prof. Agboola Ibrahim Gambari as his Chief of Staff.

Ajimobi described the appointment as a confirmation of meritocracy over mediocrity and professionalism over political interest.
The new Chief of Staff has been described as an accomplished diplomat, administrator, academic and a global figure with demonstrated interest and passion in the art of diplomacy and international relations.

According to the APC Chieftain, the President, by the choice of Prof. Gambari has further shown his determination to always choose the best among us all in the task of repositioning and building a Nation we can all be proud of. This has shown that the President prefers quality to inferiority.Ā Ā ā€œHe did not apply sentiment in picking Prof. Gambari, rather, he picked the most suitable person, who is apolitical, for that positionā€.

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