OGUN STATE GOVERNMENT AND SEGUN OSOBA’s SDP AT LOGGERHEADS + 3 SENATORS DUMP APC

Officials of the Ogun State government, chairman of the Social Democratic Party in the state, Chief Olu Agemo and the party’s senator representing Ogun Central, Gbenga Obadara, have clashed over alleged removal of SDP billboards by the Ogun State Signages and Advertising Agency. The SDP billboards erected at different locations in the state were pulled down on Tuesday by men from the agency. Going by reports, one of the billboards erected at the Sagamu end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was removed, while another one in the Pakoto area of Sango-Ota was also removed. Agemo described the move as “politically motivated.”Speaking with journalists at the Sagamu interchange, Agemo said, “The billboards were mounted on Sunday. We know that we have paid the contractors who might have paid for the signage and so it’s surprising yesterday (Tuesday) to find out that the billboards have been removed. This is unfortunate and we think seriously that it must have been politically motivated because at least there must be about seven days grace for whoever mounts such a thing to go and pay for signage. So, that is the thinking of the party.”

Reacting to this action, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Yusuph Olaniyonu; and the General Manager, OGSAA, Mr. Akinlabi Bamidele, said the agency that erected the billboards had breached some rules by its failure to pay the stipulated fees within a time frame. In a related development, the three senators from Ogun State, on Wednesday, resigned their membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the floor of the Senate and announced their defection to the newly registered Social Democratic Party (SDP). The three lawmakers: Senators Olugbenga Kaka, Akin Odunsi and Gbenga Obadara, who submitted separate resignation letters, said they were leaving the APC for greener pastures in the SDP.

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Deji Sadiq, a.k.a DEJI OF LAGOS is a LASU trained Economist turned freelance journalist, a Blogger, an information strategist, a public affairs analyst and a committed activist with a passion for equal opportunities.