At last, speculations have turned to
reality as H.E. Godwin Obaseki along with his entire supporters has joined the
People’s Democratic Party of Nigeria. The news was made public following series
of official consultations with party big wigs. This move—a PDP gain and
obviously APC lose is the direct result of Oshiomole’s inexplicable rift with
his home State governor-regardless of the endless plea for him to soft pedal.
Oshiomole even ended up coming on the network television to describe Obaseki as
“good riddance to bad rubbish”—an extremely childish and condemnable action! This
repressive stance notwithstanding, Oshiomole’s supporters where still hopeful
insisting that the supreme court will reinstate their “chairman”; that again
has been truncated as the supreme court has thrown away his suit seeking for a
reversal; Pastor Ize Iyamu himself—the candidate Oshiomole imported to unseat
Obaseki—has had his fortune nosedived with a N700 million fraud case hanging on
his neck and about to be resurrected. Now, with Oshiomole disgraced and ot of
the way, political pundits are calling for the arrest and prosecution of the
five professors Oshiomole used to frustrate Obaseki out of APC and subsequently
imperil the chances of his south west principal in the 2023 presidential
permutations. Meanwhile, an Opinion Poll hastily conducted recently –it will be
made public shortly—concludes that despite the olive branch extended to him by
the APC through Victor Giadom, the
current acting national chairman, Obaseki should not re-join APC because
Oshiomole still has supporters within the NWC ranks and could scuttle his ambition.
“We have left Egypt”, explained one of his supporters”, and even if PDP is
desert, we will die here”. Chanting Obaseki, Obaseki all the way, his supporters
had thronged the East Circular headquarters of the PDP to receive their man
Obaseki. Hon. Tony Azeigbeme officially presented a certificate to him as
member. With this development the entire Edo State is in jubilation signifying
the eternal hatred for comrade Adams oshiomole the proponent and specialists of
“stomach infrastructure fame”. He has stolen too much for the owners to see;
now it is payback time. As for Ize Iyamu, he should have known that State
treasury is not his father’s property”, stated a young Benin artist. “He should
go and look for gainful employment”, he added.
Appointed since 1 st April, 2015 till date, Prof. Adepoju Adeshola Olatunde, Director-General of the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) has left no room to chance. The Ph.D holder in Agricultural and Environmental Economics (2002) from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State has taken extra-ordinary steps to see the Forestry Institute to the next level of existence. One of such steps is the repositioning of FRIN outstation for better research focus. Others include renovation of dilapidated structures, repositioning of staff members for optimum performance, reclaiming/security all encroached land and resources of the Institute, successfully enacting on Act to Establish Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria for Forestry Research; Education and Training; establishing Six strategic Rural Resource Centers for communities engagement, capacity building and extension services. Prof. Adepoju who also holds B.Agric (Agricultural Economics), 1995 ...
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