MIMIKO IN TROUBLE:BORROFICE,AGUNLOTE,OTHERS SUPPORT AKEREDOLU

The candidacy of the former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), to fly the flag of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in the Ocotober 2012 governorship election in Ondo State has been accepted by other aspirants jostling for the  ticket.

Rotimi Akeredolu

The aspirants, at a crucial meeting yesterday in Lagos, after a hot debate in which some of the aspirants voiced  their grievances about the process, Daily Sun learnt authoritatively that they eventually succumbed to the supremacy of the party and pledged to work with Akeredolu for the benefit of the party and the people of Ondo State.
Presiding over the meeting, where the former NBA boss was presented to the larger caucus of the party was the National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande and  other party  elders including the National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Aremo Segun Osoba, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, Alhaji Lai Muhammed,  and Chief Tayo Alasoadura among others were present. However Chief Olaiya Oni reportedly stormed out of the meeting  because an Akoko aspirant was not picked for the governoship.  Dr. Olu Agunloye, Senator Robert Borroffice and Chief Jayeola Ajatta.
DREAM-NAIJA gathered that a reconciliatory committee was set up to placate the aggrieved aspirants and get them to support Akeredolu’s candidancy.
A source close to the Isaac John, GRA, Ikeja, venue of the meeting also disclosed that Chief Tayo Alasoadura had been ratified to be the Campaign Director-General for the party  to be supported by others that would soon be appointed  in the task of mobilizing the people of the state to vote for the ACN in the October 2012, governorship election.
Meanwhile, DREAM-NAIJA checks has  revealed that next week has been tentatively slated for the party’s primaries proper in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

MIMIKO DECLARES INTENTION NEXT WEEK THURSDAY

The imcubent governor of Ondo State,Dr. Olusegun mimiko will on thursday declare his intention to run for the governorship race come Oct.20,2012.
Mimiko who was said to have yielded to the call of different interest groups,finally bowed to pressures to go for a second term in office.
The political atmosphere in the state has since changed since ACN has agreed nto work with the 'chosen',Mr. Rotimi Aeredolu also known as akeiti

Fraud In Ondo:CPC arrests Ondo council paymaster over fraud

Officials of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) have arrested some officials of Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State.

The anti-graft body also seized some “vital documents” and computers of the local government. 

Dream-naija  learnt that the ICPC officials arrived at the council secretariat around noon and arrested the woman in charge of salary schedule, Mrs. Toyin Falade. She was reportedly taken to Abuja for questioning.

It was learnt that the anti-graft body had received a petition from some of the workers on the controversial new secretariat complex as well as an alleged salary fraud. 

It was learnt that the anti-graft agency had written the council’s top officials to provide the salary schedule from January to December last year. But the council allegedly turned down the request.

Some aggrieved council workers told Dream-naija in confidence that there have been series of fraud allegations against a former auditor of the council, Mr. Marcus Akinduko. He was accused of “unwholesome acts” when he was in Akure South Local Government Area. 

The ICPC, a source said, summoned the caretaker Chairman, the Accountant, the Treasurer and other top officials to appear before it in Abuja tomorrow at 10am.

The council chairman confirmed the visit of the anti-graft men on phone, saying they were doing their normal duty.

The ICPC Investigation Officer in charge of Ondo, Osun and Ekiti zone, Mr Kole Olubunmi, confirmed the arrest.