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ACN YOUTH VOWS TO DRAG MIMIKO BEFORE EFCC...If -Sunshine Voice
WE WILL DRAG MIMIKO TO EFCC IF…
-ACN Youths brags to publish looting by political appointees.
...Stop the N100bn Mimiko dangerous loan- Abayomi raises alarm
Coalition of over 25 Youths under the aegis of Democracy Fighters for Good Governance [DFFGG] affiliated to The Grasroots Mobilisers for the Action Congress of Nigeria Party [ACN] Ondo State
The Coordinator of the group, Comrade Dada Olawale Eminence warned that if Gov.Mimiko and his cabinet members dont stop the frivolous spending of the state resources and allocation profligately on Irrational celebrations saying they will be left with no other option than to drag him before EFCC.
Comr’d Eminence challenged Dr Mimiko as the state governor to publish without delay the statement of the state account since the inception of his administration.
On behalf of the masses of Ondo State,Comrd Eminence gave the Mimiko led administration in the state a one week ultimatum to make public the statement of account of the state while warning that failure to meet these demands The Grassroots Mobiliser will live by its name by calling for a mass action against the government of Labour Party [LP].
The articulate youth leader gave the warning during the week while speaking at the June 12 Anniversary Programme held at the ACN party secretariat at Akure, the Ondo State capital that Ondo State Youths have been having sleepless night over the wasteful manner in which the state government is spending the state resources.
“We have an in depth and exhaustive list of massive looting by Governor Mimiko’s cronies and political compatriots which we may publish soonest with pictorial and documentary evidences of all their looting” Eminence boasted
The youth leader pointed to the Governor spending illegally and on celebration that was uncalled for saying that Ondo State is a state that has been endowed with humanitarian resources in which the total citizens of the state needs to be enjoying till eternity but due to official recklessness and the ineptitude of the political office holders made 70% of the general population to wallowing in penury in a state that is ranked sixth among the Oil Producing states.
Comrd Eminence also said that the profligacy spending of Dr Mimiko and his political associate since their assumption into office on Feb,2009 spent over N568 million to celebrate their one year in office flying in his friends, colleagues, and hanger-on’s from all over the globe at the expense of the state.
The Youth leader also noted that if this celebration should persist for all the four years on yearly basis it would gulp the sum of N2.2billion, which worth’s more than the budgeted allocation for some states for 2months.
He condemned the present government for engaging frivolous spending leaving the immediate needs of the people saying ‘that successful public administrator like Governor Fashola of Lagos does not need to spend N568million on propaganda before Awori and the Egun masses of Lagos before the whole world will know he is doing excellently well.
The Youth leader revealed that “having considered this profligacy spending, we have concluded our plan to petition EFCC and approach the court of Law to stop further plundering of the state funds by the present administration.
“We require Mr. Governor to please publicize our allocation so far received from February 2009 to May 2011 and how the N38billion inherited from Gov.Olusegun Agagu’s administration in the coffers of the state was spent.
Eminence concluded that it is criminal for the present government in Ondo State to have denied the people their right to know the state of account of the state, quoting Section 125 of the amended 1999 Constitution that, the Accountant General of the state should at least on yearly basis publish and submit the annual report, statement of account, financial statement to the House of Assembly, which is supposed to be audited for credibility and truth for debate, if that has been done, by now all these profligacy’s would have been clearly identified”
The June 12 event attracted youths across the state and from the neighbouring states had Dr.Olu Agunloye as the Special Guest of Honour ,and Hon Otito Atikase as the Guest Speaker among others.
In a related development the Okeagbe born fiery lawyer and the leader of ACN in Ondo State
Dr Abayomi said “again I am compelled to raise an alarm about future danger of our state finances, which a few weeks ago I drew the attention of the people of Ondo state to a secret loan of N30 billion authorized by the House of Assembly in a secret money deal.”
The House of Assembly, Abayomi said abdicated its duty to protect the financial interest of the people by not demanding for annual statement of public accounts of Ondo State
This was contained in a released signed by Dr Abayomi which was made available to Sunshine VOICE Weekly at Akure that the house chose to become Mimiko’s House, instead of Ondo State
He said Ondo state is gradually witnessing a realm in which the people have no influence and no rights over the democratic resource which government should be is gradually giving way for oppressive imposition by a pitiless government order, that disdains proper means or legitimate ends.
“The alert at the immediate urgent present moment is the new desire of Governor Mimiko to increase the N30 billion illegal loan to N100 billion. This new financial intake of N100 billion loan will certainly burst the financial health of Ondo state because her freedom will be imperiled by the gripping debt for a very long time”.
Abayomi also noted that Ondo State Government [ODSG] has become a desperate money merchant to solve many development problems it created out of utter failure though saying ‘at least 7 major roads remain less than 30% completed over two years after the government came to power. It is estimated that Governor Mimiko’s “Dome” which has now been abandoned has consumed about N2 billion of public money’.
“The health sector in spite of international agency support is pregnant with undeliverable pain, the University is on angry strike, while the minimum wage of N18,000 remains unpaid by a government that was happy to spend over N1 billion to celebrate its first and second year anniversaries as Poverty prevails everywhere!”
He called on the people to resist the government from what he termed as dangerous loan that ‘it is now clear that to save the state from terrible financial trauma, the N30 billion loan need to be resisted.
“The N100 billion loan now desperately desired by the Mimiko government need to be stopped by the people of Ondo State
“The price of our liberty has, with urgent force, become eternal vigilance against the Mimiko government. Ondo States people be vigilant! Stand up to protect today and guarantee tomorrow” Abayomi concluded.
Thursday, 23 June 2011
AGAGU, DAIRO SUFFER ANOTHER LEGAL DEFEAT AT AKURE COURT
Akure High Court yesterday rejected an application by the embattled leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State
The Omotayo Dairo-led executive had prayed the court to dismiss a suit filed against it by the Ambassador Olu Agbi-led Interim Executive, which was put in place by opposing party members on the ground that the faction has no locus standi to dissolve a properly constituted executive.
The presiding judge, Justice Olasehinde Kumuyi, who delivered the ruling declined and also threw out the application of the Dairo group seeking to stop the suit at the interlocutory stage. An ex parte order restraining Dairo’s State Working Committee (SWC) from functioning in that capacity, which also restrained it from administering the fund of the party pending the hearing of the motion on notice, had earlier been granted by the court.
Counsel to the Dairo group, Adekola Olawoye, had filed a preliminary objection against the order of the court restraining them from functioning in that capacity and prayed the court to strike out or dismiss the suit challenging their continued stay in office.
In his argument, Olawoye said that the plaintiffs have no locus standi to institute the suit and the court has no jurisdiction to entertain the suit and thereby recommended that the case be struck out.
Olawoye who further argued that the court did not have the jurisdiction to entertain the plaintiffs suit because they did not have locus standi to institute the case in the first place, said the suit was not properly constituted and therefore not competent.
The plaintiffs are neither members of the State Executive of the PDP nor authorised by the said party and its National Working Committee, (NWC) and National Executive Committee, (NEC) to institute this action for and on its behalf, he argued.
He said the suit as presently constituted disclosed no reasonable or cause of action against the defendants and the choice of the members of the PDP SEC, when and how they are elected, chosen or administered is the internal affair of the party, which is not subject to the jurisdiction of the court.
But counsels to the plaintiffs led by Mr. Stephen Olemija and Deacon Oluwafemi Balogun posited that the partys constitution applied by the counsel to the defendant is no more in existence as there is a new amended constitution of the party dated 2010 as against that of the year 2006 used by Olawoye.
In his ruling, Justice Kumuyi, who adjourned the hearing of the substantive case to June 23, 2011, affirmed jurisdiction on the suit, rejected the arguments of the Dairo-led executive and aligned with the position of the Interim Management Committee of the party.
The Omotayo Dairo-led executive had prayed the court to dismiss a suit filed against it by the Ambassador Olu Agbi-led Interim Executive, which was put in place by opposing party members on the ground that the faction has no locus standi to dissolve a properly constituted executive.
The presiding judge, Justice Olasehinde Kumuyi, who delivered the ruling declined and also threw out the application of the Dairo group seeking to stop the suit at the interlocutory stage. An ex parte order restraining Dairo’s State Working Committee (SWC) from functioning in that capacity, which also restrained it from administering the fund of the party pending the hearing of the motion on notice, had earlier been granted by the court.
Counsel to the Dairo group, Adekola Olawoye, had filed a preliminary objection against the order of the court restraining them from functioning in that capacity and prayed the court to strike out or dismiss the suit challenging their continued stay in office.
In his argument, Olawoye said that the plaintiffs have no locus standi to institute the suit and the court has no jurisdiction to entertain the suit and thereby recommended that the case be struck out.
Olawoye who further argued that the court did not have the jurisdiction to entertain the plaintiffs suit because they did not have locus standi to institute the case in the first place, said the suit was not properly constituted and therefore not competent.
The plaintiffs are neither members of the State Executive of the PDP nor authorised by the said party and its National Working Committee, (NWC) and National Executive Committee, (NEC) to institute this action for and on its behalf, he argued.
He said the suit as presently constituted disclosed no reasonable or cause of action against the defendants and the choice of the members of the PDP SEC, when and how they are elected, chosen or administered is the internal affair of the party, which is not subject to the jurisdiction of the court.
But counsels to the plaintiffs led by Mr. Stephen Olemija and Deacon Oluwafemi Balogun posited that the partys constitution applied by the counsel to the defendant is no more in existence as there is a new amended constitution of the party dated 2010 as against that of the year 2006 used by Olawoye.
In his ruling, Justice Kumuyi, who adjourned the hearing of the substantive case to June 23, 2011, affirmed jurisdiction on the suit, rejected the arguments of the Dairo-led executive and aligned with the position of the Interim Management Committee of the party.
MKO ABIOLA LAST SPEECH-NAKED EYE-GOKE OLUWOLE
Bashorun MKO ABIOLA
For the reckord
‘Enough is enough’-MKO Abiola
Text of the proclamation speech by the late M.K.O. Abiola on Saturday, June 11, 1994, announcing the formation of a Government of National Unity (GNU) at Epetedo, Lagos
PEOPLE of Nigeria
But politicians in uniform, who call themselves soldiers but are more devious than any civilian would want to be, deprived you of your God-given right to be ruled by the President you had yourselves elected.
These soldier-politicians introduced into our body politic, a concept hitherto unknown to our political lexicography, something strangely called the “annulment” of an election perceived by all to have been the fairest, cleanest and most peaceful ever held in our nation.
Since that abominable act of naked political armed robbery occurred, I have been constantly urged by people of goodwill, both in Nigeria
But mindful of the need to ensure that peace continues to reign in our fragile federation, I have so far tried to pursue sweet reason and negotiation. My hope has always been to arouse whatever remnants of patriotism are left in the hearts of these thieves of your mandate, and to persuade them that they should not allow their personal desire to rule to usher our beloved country into an era of political instability and economic ruin.
All I have sought to do, in seeking dialogue with them, has been to try and get them to realise that only real democracy can move our nation forward towards progress, and earn her the respect she deserves from the international community.
However, although this peaceful approach has exposed me to severe censure by some who have mistaken it for weakness on my part, those with whom I have sought to dialogue have remained like stones, neither stirred to show loyalty to the collective decision of the people of their own country, nor to observe Allah’s injunction that they should exhibit justice and fair-play in all their dealings with their fellow men. Appeals to their honour as officers and gentlemen of the gallant Nigerian Armed Forces, have fallen on deaf ears.
Instead, they have resorted to the tactics of divide and rule, bribery and political perfidy, misinformation and (vile) propaganda. They arrest everyone who disagrees with them. Even the 71-year old hero of our nation, Chief Anthony Enahoro, was not spared. How much longer can we tolerate all this? .
People of Nigeria, you are all witnesses that I have tried to climb the highest mountain, cross the deepest river and walk the longest mile, in order to get these men to obey the will of our people. There is no humiliation I have not endured, no snare that has not been put in my path, no “set-up” that has not been designed for me in my endeavour to use the path of peace to enforce the mandate that you bestowed on me one year ago. It has been a long night. But the dawn is here. Today, people of Nigeria
We have endured 24 years of military rule in our 34 years of independence. Military rule has led to our nation fighting a civil war with itself. Military rule has destabilised our nation today as not before in its history. Military rule has impoverished our people and introduced a dreadful trade in drugs which has made our country’s name an anathema in many parts of the world. Even soccer fans going to watch the Green Eagles display in America are being made to suffer there needlessly because Nigeria
Politically, military rule has torn to shreds the prestige due to our country because of its size and population. The permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council that should be rightfully ours, is all but lost. For who will vote for Nigeria
We are sickened to see people who have shown little or no personal achievement, either in building up private businesses, or making success of any tangible thing, being placed in charge of the management of our nation’s economy, by rulers who are not accountable to anyone.
Enough of square pegs in round holes. We are tired of the military repetitive tendency to experiment with our economy: Today, they say “no controls.” Tomorrow; they say “Full controls”. The day after, they say “Fine tuning”. The next day, they say “Devaluation.” a few days later, they say “Revalue the same naira upwards again Abi?”
All we can see are the consequences of this permanent game of military “about turns;” high inflation , a huge budget deficit and an enormous foreign debt repayment burden, dying industries, high unemployment and a demoralised populace. Our youths, in particular, can see no hope on the horizon, and many can only dream of escaping from our shores to join the brain drain. Is this the Nigeria
We are plagued also by periodic balance of payments crises, which have led to a perennial shortage of essential drugs, that has turned our hospitals and clinics into mortuaries. A scarcity of books and equipment has rendered our schools into desolate deserts of ignorance. Our factories are crying for machinery, spare parts and raw materials. But each day that passes, instead of these economic diseases being cured, they are rather strengthened as an irrational allocation of foreign exchange based on favouritism and corruption becomes the order of the day. Enough is enough of economic mismanagement!
People of Nigeria Nigeria
Because you knew I would not only listen to you but deliver superb results from the programme, you voted for me in your millions and gave me an overwhelming majority over my opponent. To be precise, you gave me 58.4 per cent of the popular vote and a majority in 20 out of 30 states plus the Federal Capital Territory , Abuja
Not only that, you also enabled me to fulfil the constitutional requirement that the winner should obtain one-third of the votes in two-thirds of the states. I am sure that when you cast an eye on the moribund state of Nigeria
Our patience has come to an end. As of now, from this moment, a new Government of National Unity is in power throughout the length and breath of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, led by me, Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola, as President and Commander-in-Chief. The National Assembly is hereby reconvened. All dismissed governors are reinstated. The State Assemblies are reconstituted, as are all local government councils. I urge them to adopt a bi-partisan approach to all the issues that come before them. At the national level, a bi-partisan approach will be our guiding principle.
I call upon the usurper, General Sani Abacha, to announce his resignation forthwith, together with the rest of his illegal ruling council. We are prepared to enter into negotiations with them to work out the mechanics for a smooth transfer of power. I pledge that if they hand over quietIy, they will be retired with all their entitlements, and their positions will be accorded all the respect due to them.
For our objective is neither recrimination nor witch-hunting, but an enforcement of the will of the Nigerian people, as expressed in free elections conducted by the duly constituted authority of the time.
I hereby invoke the mandate bestowed upon me by my victory in the said election, to call on all members of the Armed Forces and the Police, the Civil and Public Services throughout the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to obey only the Government of National Unity that is headed by me, your only elected President. My Government of National Unity is the only legitimate, constituted authority in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as of now.”
People of Nigeria , these are challenging times in the history of our continent, Africa, and we in Nigeria
We in Nigeria Nigeria South Africa and Nigeria
I call on you, heroic people of Nigeria , to emulate the actions of your brothers and sisters in South Africa South Africa
Today, apartheid is gone for ever. So, let it be with Nigeria South Africa
People of Nigeria Nigeria
God bless you all Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Long live the Government of National Unity.
AGUNLOYE UNFOLDS POLITICAL AGENDA AHEAD OF 2013
AGUNLOYE UNFOLDS POLITICAL AGENDA AHEAD OF 2013
…ready to battle mimiko
The Ondo North Senatorial flagbearer for Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN] Dr.Olu Agunloye has put all the electoral misfortune behind him as he stylishly unfolds a new political agenda.
The new political agenda known as the Omoluabi Value is now been promoted by the Erusu-Akoko born politician high-tech through a newspaper advert announcing the webpage http://www.ondo2013.com/.
Since his defeat at the poll Dr Agunloye have reorganized himself ahead of the 2013 which Akoko people are set to champion by the newspaper advert.
Many have also been wandering whether his ill-fated political misadventure from Labour Party [LP] will make him quit politics but this latest move had only proved that his defeat and humiliation from the LP has only transformed him to a refined politician.
Through the promotion of the ‘Omoluabi Value’,Dr.Agunloye seems to be fully back in the political arena to challenge his friend Dr Olusegun Mimiko in the 2013 guber race this time for a higher mission which shows his consistence and commitment to liberate the people of Ondo State
As the new political ideology is fast gaining acceptance among the youths in Ondo North Senatorial district where Agunloye has a very strong political footing is already rubbing on his political image.
Before thing fell apart in between Agunloye, a former minister of the federal republic of Nigeria
Between 1999 to date all attempt by Dr Agunloye to take a shot at the govermorship position had always suffers a very big set back either for him to be persuaded to step down for another kinsmen or drop his ambition because of unfavourable political arrangements.
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