Category: Politics

Oyo Pacesetters Transport boss and PDP Chieftain, Dare Adeleke has described a call by Mr Bayo Ojo, a former Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice in Oyo state, advising the APC to challenge the Supreme Courts decision on the on-coming local govt elections, as baseless and misleading.Ojo had in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, said that the judgement was inappropriate and violation of court process for the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC) to put up notices of election after the case was filed at the Supreme Court.He…

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Oyo State PDP Chieftain, Dare Adeleke, has condemned a statement credited to the Ogun State Chairman of the party, Dr Sikirulai Ogundele over Ambassador Taofeeq Arapaja’s visit to Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo. Ambassador Taofeeq Oladejo Arapaja, the newly elected National Vice Chairman (South West) of the party, was faulted for visiting the ex president without informing the state chapter of the party.Dr Ogundele had in a news publication said he was not aware of the visit and wondered why Arapaja did not inform the structure of the party in Ogun State.In…

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The All People’s Congress Party, APC, Oyo State has been described as an empty vessel that makes loud noises full of fury but lacking of substance.Reacting to developments resulting from Supreme court judgement on on sacked local government chairman of Oyo State, Oyo PDP Chieftain and Chairman, Oyo Pacesetters Transport Company, Dare Adeleke said the APC are jubilating zero success and dancing a macabre dance of emptiness.In a statement issued in Ibadan Friday evening, Adeleke stated:“The prayers of the dislodged chairman to return wasn’t granted and their tenure has fizzled…

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With the recent harassment of the former governor of Lagos State Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, although largely unnoticed, the time is ripe to ask the question: who is really after him? Though no one has owned up, it is only natural that fingers point to a certain direction responsible for this dastardly act. There have been unreported accounts of security breach and threats around him and his family members mostly in the last six months. This portends bad image for our nascent democracy. Agreed that he presided over one of the…

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The Chairman Oyo Pacesetters Company and Oyo PDP chieftain, Dare Adeleke has advised Ex-Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose to allow peace to reign in the PDP South West.He also told Ayo Fayose, former Governor of Ekiti State, to stop deceiving the public with lies and a false narrative of the just concluded PDP South West Congress.It will be recalled that Fayose, in a press statement, after a meeting with his loyalists had released a statement protesting the role of Senator Samuel Anyanwu at the Congress.The statement signed by the…

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My dear comrades and compatriots,The past weeks have been a very adventurous and fulfilling journey. We have learned, we have worked, we have reconciled on the table of brotherhood, working towards the same cause, forging a stronger PDP in the South West and supporting the best man for the job.I would like to thank all members of the PDP and everyone who worked and walked with us to ensure that the chairmanship of the South West PDP is in the good hands of a man of impeccable integrity, Ambassador Taofeeq…

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Oyo PDP chieftain, Dare Adeleke has sent a message of Congratulations to Ambassador Taofeeq Oladejo Arapaja who emerged winner of the PDP South West Chairmanship position at the zonal Congress which held in Oshogbo on Monday. Adeleke said, in a statement issued in Ibadan, that Arapaja is a breath of fresh air whose mantra has always been unity of the party; “I am very hopeful that with the emergence of Ambassador Taofeeq Arapaja, the PDP South West is on it’s way into greatness again. All through his tours prior to…

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In a Swift response to a group of PDP members contesting the appointment of Senator Dino Melaiye as a member of the Screening committee of the on-coming PDP South West Congress, a Chieftain of the party in Oyo State has questioned what exactly Fayose wants.Dare Adeleke who has been highly critical of the ex-Ekiti governor and his diversionary tactics, in a phone call to this reporter Friday evening, reacted to Fayose and his group’s resistance to the inclusion of Dino Melaye in the screening committee. Fayose’s group had insisted that…

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A Chieftain of the PDP in Oyo State, Dare Adeleke has faulted Fayose’s claim that the governor of Oyo State and leader of the PDP in the South West Zone, Engr Seyi Makinde, may influence the venue of the on-coming PDP Congress in the zone.Adeleke who is also Chairman of the Oyo Pacesetters Transport Company said “Fayose’s tantrums are unfounded and accused the ex-Governor of Ekiti State of behaving like a “spoiled brat”.Adeleke stated that it is “Fayose who had been crying foul and running when no one pursued him”.Laying…

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