WHY FASOLA SEALED OFF JIMOH IBRAHIM LAGOS OFFICE

HARD TIMES FOR JIMOH IBRAHIM

…4-weeks after Mimiko sent him packing at Owena Motel, Akure

---Fashola Seals off Air Nigeria Headquarters

While the wound and disgrace inflicted on the ego of the Ikale Billionaire Chief Jimoh Ibrahim by the governor of Ondo State,Dr.Olusegun Mimiko who sent him packing from Owena Motel was gradually healing another Governor, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State had sent officials of the Lagos State Board of Internal Revenue Services[LSBIRS] to seal off one of his Lagos based companies.

 The corporate headquarters of Air Nigeria, one of the companies of the Ikale billionaire, Mr Ibrahim’s , also a financier of the Ondo State Chapter of the disintegrated Peoples Democratic Party[PDP]  at  Etiebet’s place on Mobolaji Bank Anthony way, Ikeja Lagos  was  sealed-off over alleged unpaid tax.

Sunshine Voice Lagos Correspondent report that the Lagos State government officials stormed the office of Dr. Ibrahim who was among the short-listed PDP ministerial nominees from Ondo State at about 12.30pm and locked it up after asking the workers to vacate the building.

The workers were said to have been forced to relocate to the car park behind the corporate building after the officials allegedly visited the place to transact skeletal business with multitude Air Nigerian passengers.

But chairman of the airline, Jimoh Ibrahim, through the telephone responded that the matter was resolved, admitting that the tax collectors came visiting the office over tax matters which he said was owed when the airline was under the management of Richard Branson and called Virgin Nigeria.

Ibrahim however disclosed that what the Board of Inland Revenue owed were taxes when Branson, chairman of Virgin Group,was owner of Virgin Nigeria, a company Ibrahim bought over only last year .

This occurrence is coming just on the heels of  an earlier tough time being  witnessed by the businessman who received  a shocker from the Ondo State government who refused to extend  tenure of his company NICON LUXURY Hotels Management PLC lease as the official manager of  Owena Motel.

Dr Jimoh Ibrahim was recently featured in themedia celebrating the takeover of the Oceanic Bank Plc and the establishment of a private university at Sao Toe respectively as well as buying over the Newswatch media empire which he promised to turn into a daily paper.

Though he had also gone through some troubled waters in recent time having his mother kidnapped and battling Ondo State PDP chapters crisis

FALAE BOYCOTT IRORKO 2ND TERM LAUNCH

SHOCKER !!!

OLU FALAE BOYCOTT IROKO 2^ND TERM LAUNCH

The launching event been put together by the Iroko Platform the arrow head of the Mimiko 2^nd term promoters can be described as a successful event going by the crowd that attended.

But the absence of the elder statesman Chief Olu Falae who was penciled down to chairman the event created a source for concern to many curious politicians.

Throughout the programme, the event coordinators kept mute on why Chief Falae was unavoidable absent at the epoch making event despite the strong media publicity that he will be the chairman.

Information scooped by Sunshine Voice has it that Chief Falae might have decide to backed out from the 2^nd term campaigners for personal reason.

But a member of the organizing committee of the event who speak under anonymity said Chief Falae avoided the event so that he can safe his face from smear campaigns that seems to be brewing over the to avoid his name been smear by anti-Mimiko 2^nd term campaigners.

H also revealed that the in ability of Chief Falae to be physically present had send wrong signal to the progressive camps that all is not well with the 2^nd term ambition of Dr Mimiko.

 However,the event received the blessing of some traditional rulers like the Olukare of Ikare,Oba Akadri Momoh,Olubaka of Okaland,Oba Adebori, and the Deji of Akure,Oba Adebiyi Adesida among others.

The National Union of Road Transport Workers [NURTW] Ondo State members were led by its Chairman,Chief Solomon Aladejana [Aka Die-the-Mata] who donated one million naira un behalf of association.

ODSG / BOI N2Bn LOAN FRAUD

N2BILLION BOI/ODSG LOAN LATEST:

EBIRA FARMERS ALLEGES FRAUD

…fingers Mimiko’s SA, Francis Sheen in illegal dealing

If care is not taken the  much publicised Bank of Industry [BOI]and Ondo State Government [ODSG] packaged Loan may soon be  engulfed in a full blown scandal as the activities of some officials may rubbish the beauty of the project by their selfish desire.

Apart from the initial teething problem faced by the Commerce and Industry staffers in contending with the revolutionary members of the Iroko Vanguards who disrupted activities at the government secretariat during their demonstration to the governor’s office for the uncertainty surrounding the disbursement of the loan.

The Iroko Vanguards members alleged that they were defrauded to tune of amount running to millions of naira by certain officials in charge of the project which led to one Mr Francis Sheen to become a regular visitor to the State Security Services [SSS] office between March and April 2011

Last week another group of potential beneficiary of the BOI/ODSG LOAN under the Ondo State Ebira Farmers Union[OSEFU] petitioned the  Commissioner for Commerce and Industry,Chief Akin Akingbesote over an alleged fraudulent activities of  one Mr Francis Sheen the Special Assistant to the governor on Small Business Development.

The Ebira Farmers GROUP [OSEFU] an amalgamated body of  over fourty-six [46] Cooperative Societies which applied for a loan to set up Fufu/Gari Processing Industry across 15 local governments in their petition said that Mr Sheen is deceitful.

The petition signed by Alhaji Azeez Kekere which copies were made available to Sunshine VOICE alleged that Mr Sheen  and his consulting team and BOI were giving misleading directives that has cost them fortune in the last ten months.

They concluded by advising the government to go to town and investigate and sample the public opinion about the perception of the people towards the project.

OLAIYA ONI,MIMIKO FALL APART OVER MINISTERIAL LIST

Political Tsunami Hits Ondo LP

Olaiya oni,LP Chairman  finally resigns

…Osemawe,Mimiko loyalist panics

Just as the crisis generated by the ministerial list within the Ondo State  Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] is dying down the list has also wrecked havoc in Labour Party[LP] which made the party Chairman, Dr Olaiya Oni to resign his position.

Impeccable source within the party told Sunshine Voice that the ministerial list crisis last week took it’s toll on LP as there was an unresolved disagreement between the party,Chairman,Dr Oni and governor of Ondo State,Dr Olusegun Mimiko.

The source who said he saw the copy of the resignation letter told Sunshine Voice that Dr Olaiya Oni  last week sent his resignation letter to the governor, Dr Olusegu Mimiko informing him of his decision to quit the party.

The source said,Dr Olaiya Oni in his  letter stated that he is quitting the party to save his name as he alleged that  Dr Mimiko has hijacked the running of the party from the state executives.

Dr Oni the source revealed became bitter when he learnt that Dr Mimiko  unilaterally sent  the name of one Mrs Remi Duyile,who is a Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Diaspora Matters.

The Ise Akoko born party Chairman was said to have got wind of the ministerial list from a very close confidant of the governor who said that Dr Pius Osunyinkanmi,the incumbent Commissioner for Education was grumbling why his name was substituted by  Mr.Governor with that of one Mrs Remi  Duyile as LP ministerial nominee without recourse to the state excos.

This infuriated Dr Oni who went wild making frantic calls to his Aso Rock contacts to confirm the authenticity  of ministerial list sent by Dr Mimiko.

But he was even more bitter and devastated when he was told that Mrs Duyile was Dr Mimiko’s ministerial nominee for LP Ondo State.

There and then Dr Olaiya Oni immediately drafted and sent his resignation letter to the governor copying the Osemawe of Ondo kingdom,Oba Kiladejo alerting the king of his decision to quit LP because of what he called Dr Mimiko’s overbearing nature on the party.

This sent a lot of jitters down the spines of the paramount ruler of Ondo Kingdom who called on some of Dr Mimiko’s confidants and inner caucus members including the First Lady to start putting  pressure on Dr Oni not to make his decision public until they will resolve the crisis amicably between the two of them. .

Finally,after three days the Osemawe was lucky to convince  the embattled Chairman,Dr Oni to reverse his decision not to quit the party but Dr Oni Sunshine Voice learnt said he would accept not to quit only on the condition that the governor must also accept his new terms of preference.

 A six paragraph truce condition was therefore drawn by Dr Oni through  Osemawe to the governor with a warning that any attempt to reject a single line among the conditions he will make public his decision to quit LP.

Further investigation within LP at the time of filing this report revealed that  Dr Oni promised to make his official announcement to the public through the media on Monday.

MIMIKO 2ND TERM ABITION TEARS CABINET APART

AMIU TAMBUWAL EMERGED AS NEW SPEAKER OF THE NASS

Aminu Tambuwal emerged as the new Speaker , Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal (PDP) Sokoto State has emerged as the new Speaker of the 7th session of the House of Representatives of Nigeria.

He defeated Hon. Mulikat Akande-Adeola who is popularly tagged as the candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the presidency.

Tambuwal was a deputy chief whip in the 6th session of the House of Representatives. He ran against Hon. Mulikat Akande in defiance to the endorsement of the ruling PDP.

The new speaker emerged by polling 252 votes to defeat Mulikat Akande-Adeola, who polled 90. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha was elected as Deputy Speaker

MIMIKO SECOND TERM AGENDA TEARS CABINET APART

2^ND TERM AGENDA TEARS MIMIKOCABINET APART

… Commissioners, Super SA’s, Political  appointees  sidetrack

That some selected indigenes of Ondo State are already clamoring for Dr Olusegun Mimiko, the governor of Ondo state to take a shot at the governorship slot come 2013 is no more news.But the disaffection this is already creating among some so called Super Appointees, Commissioners and Labour Party [LP] Leaders who are already complaining about been side track by the new political arrangement.

Sunshine authoritatively gathered that many of the so called untouchable appointees and some members of the kitchen cabinet were already grumbling to have been sideline and left in the cold as they were already grumbling  for not been carried along in  the latest political show.

Some of the appointees who were often refers to in government quarters as ‘Super Appointees [S.As]  were heard murmuring in whispering voice that  because some of them complained that it is still too early for the Gov. Mimiko to be  toying  with the second term agenda.

They also complained that the governor have not even open up to them on why he wanted to go for second term as it wasn’t part of their decision when they were in trenches.

Some of the Super SA’s were reported to have berated the promoters of te 2^nd Term Agenda to have not consulted with them which made some of them to reject the invitation to join the plartform.

An eye witness account told Sunshie VOICE that oe of the commissioners from the Central torn the invitation letter sent to him by the Iroko Platform saying the people can not invite him because he senior them in politics.

“Where are these people when we started the struggle for the emergence of Iroko and they now think the are smart to be talking about second term what have we done to make them believe the people will allow break the second term jinx as this may eventually be our albatross I the administration”

 The party leaders on their own party were jittery about the new arrangement, as the Iroko for second term is structure  in a way that  natural sidelined their existent.

All the political structures created to promote the second term of Iroko are already fill with all levels of executives, while the LP executives from state to ward level are left uninvolved in the cause.

This new political development in Ondo State could be likened  the era of Abacha whenthe Daniel Kanu led YEAA were canvassing for Abacha must  stay, as the governor, Dr.Mimiko is yet to make any categorical statement on the issue but political watchers are saying the man was only waiting for the right time to drop the bombshell.

The governor had on several occasion publicly denounced the issue of second term that he is waiting for God direction on second term but the spokesperson of the Iroko Platform has declared that they have gone ahead of Dr Mimiko to seek God intervention on the cause.

Though, the Iroko 2^nd coming is gradually getting attention while the grumbling continued in  every quarter but promoters have continued their business without bordering about the ranting and grumblings of the governor political associates.

One of the most vocal personality at the vanguard for the advocacy of Dr Mimiko second term is Chief Sanya Oyinsan  a  highly respected political appointee in Mimiko’s government  and notable media guru in Ondo State  is the Coordinators of the Iroko Plartform [IR]

The inclination of  Pa Oyinsan as he’s been refers to in media circles as one of those promoting the second term has given strong credibility to the  agitation for Dr. Mimiko to run in 2013.

Pa Oyinsan who is currently the Chairman of the OSRC board  said in one of his recent interview that since the governor has always been procrastinating saying he will take it to God in prayer.

“We have decide to have gone ahead of him to take it to God and God has answered us and we have been divinely ordered to tell the governor that his prayers has been answered now the whole world are waiting to see how the Ise-Takutakun governor will break the jinx of doing second term in Ondo State politics because no governor ever make second term” Pa Oyinsan

concluded.

It would be recalled that in one of Dr Tunji Abayomi’s interview he recalled the antecedent of Dr.Mimiko as an unrepentant advocate of one governor one term that gave him the sympathy why the people of Ondo State voted massively for him in 2007.

Abayomi said the political event that led to his emergence were as a result of his past and consistent struggle to affirm political zoning, so it is very unfair, totally unacceptable, wicked and immoral for anybody to now start canvassing for Mimiko’s second term”

He point out to the fact that “these same Dr Mimiko fought relentlessly to stop Chief Adefarati second term  and did the same for Agagu 2007 for that same man to now tell the people that he want second term will be very difficult”

The whole world is watching as second term agenda continues to polarize the Mimiko’s administration in Ondo State.