Ajimobi's Coming As Governor Is An Abberation- Alao-Akala

Gubernatorial flag bearer of Action Democratic Party in Oyo State and former Governor of the state between 2007-2011, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala has described the coming of Sen. Abiola Ajimobi as Governor of Oyo State as an abberation that should not have taken place in the first instance.

Otunba Alao-Akala said  this while taking a critical assessment of the administration of the APC Government of Sen. Ajimobi while participating on a live interactive radio programme on Gravity FM, Igboho today.

According to the former Governor, who is presently on a campaign tour of Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State and terribly disappointed in the outgoing administration of Ajimobi which he described as total failure, a collosal waste of time, money, resources and a disastrous 8 years with nothing tangible to show as achievement or benefit to the people of Oyo State.

"As I speak with you right now, my heart bleeds, I feel so bad that we have have been set back by eight years of our lives by the government of Ajimobi.

This is not the Oke-Ogun that I handed over to him when I stepped aside eight years ago.

All the roads I constructed, not a single kilometer has been added to it, even the ones I constructed are not being maintained.

They have all collapsed and in terrible shape.

I came in here through Sepeteri, the road is an eye sore.

I wonder what the man has been doing for the past eight years.

Equipments for the take off of the Television station at Oje Owode were on ground and ready for installation when I was going on sabbatical leave, as I speak with you now, those equipments have been moved to Ibadan.

The buildings have been taken over by weed and other dangerous animals.

Getting to the place today ,the buildings are caving in.

If not for the initiative of the proprietor of Gravity FM, you people would have gone back to the dark era when you listen to Cotonou radio or Ilorin FM because even the Oke-Ogun FM at Alaga is in comatose.

Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State is in ruins and a terrible state of disrepair.

Oyo State has been canibalised but I can assure you better days are ahead by God's grace.

This was not my plan for the my people in Oke-Ogun and even the state at large, we ran a Government that had the interest in human capital development and we have series of projects to show for it.

And that is why I am bold and confident come to you to seek your support and your votes to Govern oyo state again.

I challenge Ajimobi to publish in major newspaper list of his achievements in the last eight years then the people of Oyo state can be the judge."

Reeling out some of his achievements during his first term as Governor, Otunba Alao-Akala said he constructed Alaga to shaki road terminating at the entrance to Oke Ogun Polytechnic, Saki to Ilesha Baruba road, Otu-IgboJaiye - Komu -  Baba ode Road down to Ilero.

So also is the road from Iganna - Ayegun after Iwere Ile down to the Border between Nigeria and Benin Republic before Ijio town.

Otunba Alao-Akala stated categorically that he is the only Governor ever in the history of OYO state that has ever visited Okerete town in Oke-Ogun area of OYO state which is 91 kilometers from Saki town.

He went further that as part of his achievements during his first term, he directed that a school be established in the town because to put a stop to children from the town crossing the border to Benin Republic to attend school and that he made sure teacher were posted to the school with extra incentives to make pay attention to the students.

Asked to give an assessment of Governor Ajimobi's administration in the last 8 years as it prepares to wind up Otunba Alao-Akala stated pointedly that it was a failure in all aspects as it has practically nothing to showcase as it's achievements.

According to him, "in the areas of education, it is zero, all higher institutions in the state are on strike.

 The state government is owing them 25 month's salary. 

Even, the primary and secondary schools are in total disrepair.

All sorts of levies are been imposed on parents and still there is nothing to show for it.

Ibadan to Eruwa is bad, Ibadan to Oyo-Ogbomoso road is bad, Ibadan to Iseyin road is in a terrible state. 

Our internal roads were recently patched because the vice president was coming to visit the state, that a big shame.

Nothing on agriculture, Adeoyo hospital that I renovated is now a shadow of itself.

Everything about OYO state is upside down.

Ajimobi has destroyed the system. 

In short, his coming was a terrible mistake and an abberation that should not have been allowed to happen," he declared.

Kwara APC Guber Aspirant Modibo Kawu, Others Charged For 2.5b Fraud

The Federal Government has filed charges against a gubernatorial aspirant in Kwara State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC anf the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission, Modibbo Kawu, Pinnacle Communications Limited; its founder, Lucky Omonuwa; and its Managing Director, Dipo Onifade, for alleged fraud to the tune of N2.5bn.

The charges were filed before a Federal High Court, Abuja, sequel to an investigation by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission.

According to court documents obtained by The PUNCH, 12 charges were preferred against the accused persons by Mr. Henry Emore and Adenekan Shogunle, on behalf of the Attorney-General of the Federation.

The Presidency had in 2016, released N10bn to the Ministry of Information and Culture for the digital switch-over programme which entails migration of telephone lines from analogue to digital platforms and a White Paper was issued directing that the process be specifically handled by government-affiliated companies.

Based on the guidelines provided by the White Paper, two companies were nominated to handle the process, one of which was ITS, an affiliate of the Nigerian Television Authority.

About N1.7bn was released to it as seed grant for the commencement of the switch-over. However, the ICPC through investigation discovered that the process was fraught with alleged corrupt practices.

In the charges filed before the court, the government accused Kawu of “recommending to the Minister of Information to approve payment of the sum of N2.5bn to Pinnacle Communications Ltd, a private company owned by Sir Lucky Omonuwa as a ‘seed grant’ under the DigitalSwitch-Over programme of the Federal Government when you knew that the company was not entitled to receive such a grant an you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 26(1)(c) and punishable under Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.

The government also accused Omonuwa of receiving N2.5bn in the Zenith Bank account of Pinnacle Communications Limited when he ought to know that the sum was the subject of an offence under Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.

Omonuwa was accused of transferring N167m out of the N2.5bn to one Daura Mamman, a bureau de change operator and thereafter taking the dollar equivalent of the sum in cash at his residence in Kaduna in contravention of Section 11(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 as amended.

Kawu and Pinnacle Communications had, however, denied the allegations levelled against them, describing the ICPC as being ignorant of the entire process of the contract award.