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Aregbesola Has Not Completed Any Project In The Last Four Years – Omisore
One of the leading
contenders for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
ticket to contest the August 9, 2014 governorship
election in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore has
criticized the performance of the incumbent
Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, saying he has
nothing to show as achievement in his first four
years in office.
Omisore, who made this known on Tuesday at the
Wadata Plaza, Abuja, national secretariat of the PDP,
when he came to submit his nomination form to
enable him contest the April 5 governorship
primaries of the party, said he joined the race to
restore the dignity of Osun State.
He explained that with the alleged lack-luster
performance of Aregbesola, it had become very clear
that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in
the state had nothing to offer.
He said, “I am here in the PDP to submit my
nomination forms to vie for the governorship of Osun
State. I disagree with the question posed that South-
West is composed of APC states. It is not the APC
state; they came to the zone through the back door.
We contested the court decisions; I can assure you,
PDP will win in the zone hands down.”
“In Osun, there is no project completed in the last
four years; the government has not paid workers
salary in the past three months. There is nothing to
show for governance in Osun in the past four years.
“The educational system has been bastardized for
financial reasons. Osun State has secularity of
religion. So, we have no business with religion
creeping into our educational system.
“What Aregbesola and his APC are doing in Osun is
part of administrative laziness; it is a lack of
capacity; it shows a lack of depth; it shows a party,
which will stop at nothing than to divide the people”.
Police arrest Nasarawa Commissioner for jumping state House of Assembly fence
Lafia — The Nasarawa Police Command, Tuesday,
arrested the Nasarawa State Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Innocent Lagi, for
scaling the fence of the State House of Assembly to
serve a court order.
Lagi was at the Assembly to serve the officials with a
court injunction restraining the House from
summoning the chairman of Nasarawa State
Independent Electoral Commission, NASIEC, and his
commissioners to appear before them.
However, the News Agency of Nigeria, reported that
he was not allowed to enter the premises by the
security officers.
The Attorney-General, after being denied access to
the complex, decided to jump over the fence, which
prompted the legislators to order security officials to
arrest him.
It was also reported that before Lagi arrived at the
Assembly complex, the Chairman of the commission,
Dr. Abdullahi Modibo, and five other commissioners
had already responded to questions raised by
members on the conduct of the exercise.
Don’t take Nigerians for granted, Atiku tells FG
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has told
the Federal Government not to take Nigerians
for granted.
He said it would be wrong to take their
resilience for granted as the country marks 100
years of amalgamation of the Lagos colony with
the Northern and Southern Protectorates by the
British Colonial occupier forming one country,
Nigerians needed to pat each other on the back
for their ability to live together since.
He said in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday
that Nigeria leaders should redouble their
efforts towards building a stronger and more
united Nigeria rather than concentrating
energies on division or breakup.
He, therefore, appealed to those calling for the
breakup of the country to responder their
stand, adding that those making the call were
dishonest in their attitude.
He said, ”The recent clamor by some of
Nigeria’s leaders for a renegotiation of the
continued being of Nigeria are dishonest and an
unnecessary distraction from the future that we
can build.
“Such leaders need to be concentrating their
efforts on tackling the challenges ranging from
lack of security to addressing poverty and
unemployment through infrastructural
investments.
“The victims of structural ineptitude are not
distinguished on the basis of their ethnicity,
tribe, religion or region. In is also a truism that
both the perpetrators and their victims are
Nigerians, and secession will not fix these
woes.”
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