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Ajimobi lauds Buhari on choice of Sunday Dare as Oyo ministerial nominee

•Describes Dare as quality choice, Urges Oyo APC members’ support Immediate past Governor and the Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has lauded the choice of Dr. Sunday Dare as a ministerial nominee from Oyo State by President Mohammadu Buhari. The former Governor also commended the President on…

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Why Ajimobi released ministry official jailed for killing husband- Ex-AG (Punch’s report)

A week before the end of his tenure in May 2019, the then Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, pardoned an official of the Oyo State Ministry of Justice, Yewande Oyediran, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for killing her husband, Lowo. Oyediran, who was a lawyer, was in November 2017, convicted for…

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Oyo Govt. to Ajimobi’s aides: stop defending the absurdity says alleged vehicle theft not a smear campaign

The Oyo State Government on Sunday reacted to a news over the weekend that some officials of the immediate past administration in the state raised issues about the manner in which the state is retrieving vehicles illegally carted away by some of their colleagues. According to the statement by the state government, officials of the…

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Makinde carries me along in governance decisions unlike ‘Constituted Authority’, says Olaniyan at a function with Ajimobi’s deputy, Adeyemo (Photo)

The Oyo state Deputy Governor, Engr. Rauf Aderemi Olaniyan over the weekend commended the state Governor, Governor Seyi Makinde for carrying him along in the decisions he has made so far, noting that this is unprecedented in the history of the state. Olaniyan gave this commendation over the weekend in company of Otunba Moses Alake…

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Olopoeniyan’s attack on Ajimobi’s aides: The locust years are here|By Adeoye Akande

It is quite disheartening that in 2019, there is no one in this Oyo state government capable of replying the intellectual work of Professor Adeniyi Olowofela, Erudite media guru Bolaji Tunji and ever sagacious Abiodun Ambali, all former aides of the immediate past governor of Oyo state, Sen. ABIOLA AJIMOBI. The trio had embarked on…

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Makinde has no plan to scrap SGB’s policy by Ajimobi, says SUBEB chairman

Oyo state government on Friday disclosed that it had no plan to proscribe the School Governing Boards (SGBs) policy of the Abiola Ajimobi led administration in public schools, but had worked on reviewing the mode of operation of the initiative. This disclosed by the Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr. Nureni Adeniran who…

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Makinde lied! debt incurred by Ajimobi is N90b not N150b, says Ajimobi’s appointees (See details in the story)

Political appointees who worked under the immediate past administration of ex-Governor Abiola Ajimobi in Oyo State, on Friday tackled Governor Seyi Makinde over his claim that the Ajimobi administration left a debt of N150bn. This was gathered by Newspeakonline during an address by the appointees led by a former Commissioner for Education, Prof. Adeniyi Olowofela,…

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Ajimobi denies rejecting ministerial appointment… as report reveals how his nomination was rejected

Immediate past governor of Oyo State, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi, has denied reports that he had rejected an offer to serve on President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet as a minister. Reports went round earlier in the day that he had rejected the ministerial appointment offered him by President Buhari, saying the appointment should rather go to a…

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Ajimobi rejects Buhari’s ministerial offer, says he prefers younger person- Tegbe or Adelabu may replace him

Immediate past Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, has reportedly declined the offer to serve as a Minister under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government. InsideOyo.com on Thursday gathered from a source that the former governor turned down the offer to allow the president pick a younger person from the Oyo APC team. An insider close…

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CCB to investigate declared assets by Makinde, Ajimobi others

The Code of Conduct Bureau in Oyo State on Wednesday said it is awaiting directives to verify the N48bn assets declared by the state governor, Seyi Makinde, and other officials in the last administration in the state. The Director of CCB in the state, Mr. Moses Atolagbe, said the directive to verify all the people…

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