Tag: Makinde

Food Crisis: FG Didn’t Give States N30b Each, Makinde Replies Akpabio

Ganiyu Amodu

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has faulted the claims by Senate President Godswill Akpabio that states got an additional N30 billion each to address food scarcity. Akpabio had made the comment some days back but at the commissioning of a newly renovated Iseyin Central Mosque provided by an Iseyin-born legal icon Ahmed Raji (SAN), Makinde said Oyo State did not get such funds. “This is not the time to play politics, as we have real issues that deserve real solutions. But yesterday, I saw the video and read in…

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Atiku Camp Unsettled As Tinubu, Wike, Makinde, Ortom Meet in London

Aliyu Aliyu

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has reportedly met with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in London. The meeting, according to multiple sources, also had Governors Samuel Ortom of Benue and Seyi Makinde of Oyo in attendance. The relationship between Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has been problematic. Attempts to fix the broken relationship continues to drag, a situation that has stalled Atiku from constituting his campaign council. READ ALSO Come To Rivers To Meet Me Or…

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Igboho Attacks Ooni, Tinubu, Makinde, Says They Are ‘Fulani Slaves’

Gbenga Adeoti

  Yoruba warlord, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has described Enitan Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife; Bola Tinubu, APC National Leader, and Seyi Makinde, Oyo State Governor, as ‘Fulani slaves’. Igboho also flayed some Yoruba leaders, including traditional rulers, alleging that have not shown enough support for the struggle to liberate the Yoruba from their ”Fulani oppressors”. Speaking during a virtual town hall meeting monitored by online newspaper, TheCable, Igboho said the Ooni and others are interested in their own gain even though they claim to represent the…

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