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Oyo-Insecurity: Billions in Security Votes, Yet Oyo Bleeds - The Questions Governor Makinde Must Answer

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Oyo-Insecurity : Billions in Security Votes , Yet Oyo Bleeds - The Questions Governor Makinde Must Answer By || Dahood Kolawole Mandela   In June 2020, I wrote an article titled " Seyi Makinde and the Waste of Security Vote in Oyo ." At that time, many dismissed the concerns as political criticism, while others considered them exaggerated alarms. Yet six years later, the frightening realities unfolding across Oyo State appear to have transformed those warnings into an unfortunate prophecy. Today, communities that once slept with their doors open now live in fear. Farmers abandon their farmlands. Travellers move with apprehension. Parents send their children to school with uncertainty in their hearts. The recent abductions in Ogbomoso and Oriire Local Government have once again revealed that insecurity has graduated from an occasional threat into a recurring nightmare. The tragedy in Oriire is particularly painful because it involved innocent schoolchildren, teachers and co...
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JUST-IN: Six Oyo Rep members dump PDP for APM

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JUST-IN: Six Oyo Rep members dump PDP for APM Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde , showed his political influence on Tuesday as six members of the House of Representatives, Oyo caucus, loyal to him, dumped the Peoples Democratic Party for the Allied Peoples Movement . At the resumption of plenary following the Sallah break , Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas , who presided over the session, read 13 letters announcing the change of parties by lawmakers. Recall that Makinde, a few weeks ago, defected to the APM, on which platform he has already declared to run for the presidential election in 2027 . The members of the Oyo House of Representatives caucus who defected to the APM on Tuesday included Anthony Adebayo, Adedeji Olajide, Sunday Makanjuola, Oyedeji Oyeshina, Fola Oyekunle and Adigun Adekunle. In their letters of defection, the lawmakers cited the protracted internal crisis and leadership tussle in the PDP as a reason to seek a political alternative to pursue...
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