OMISORE’S POLITICAL AMBITION LOSES TRACTION
disappeared from the scene. And to make good her pursuit, she recently stole the show at the APC convention last weekend in Abuja. She was the cynosure of all eyes, as she looked resplendent in her perfectly cut attire and infectious smile. Back in the days when her husband held sway over Edo politics like a medieval emperor, the couple became the darling of the state’s high society and their house automatically became a Mecca of sorts for political jobbers, hangers-on and favour-seekers. But immediately after his tenure expired, she went into her anonymous cocoon. Rumour distributors and retailers came up with acerbic news. They claimed that the couple had exhausted their love for each other. They drew inferences from half-truths or flimsy realities that wouldn’t stand the test of logic or superior reasoning. For instance, they argued that when the passion was hot and love was young between them, Adams and Iara attended every event together. The makers of mischief insinuated that love seemed to have waned between the couple and their passion for each other had ebbed to barely imperceptible degree.
Some people said she had retreated into her anonymous cocoon because she was pregnant. Others argued that their marriage had simply run its full course. They claimed that the lady had gone back to her country, having had her fill of the groove. The latter’s elevated public office and clout was the only thing she found attractive about him, they said. However, reality is very different
from the pictures of pain and bleak reality painted by haters of the ex-Edo governor and his trophy wife. People who should know however, confirmed that Adams is too much in love with the woman to let go of her. The couple got married in 2015, in a two-part grand wedding ceremony held in Edo State, Nigeria and the bride’s homeland, Cape Verde. Now, according to her apologists, Iara is back in town, mischief-makers can go and take a running dive.
Senator Iyiola Omisore is a man in distress. His hopes are fading off into unknown vistas and his dreams of greatness are silently mutating into a horrid nightmare. The controversial senator’s impotence has finally caught up with him as the proverbial sword of Damocles hinders the strides of a medieval tyrant. Findings revealed that Omisore is really going through a lot in his ambition to become the executive governor of Osun State. This is a sad reality of the politician’s current state given the fact that he has been nursing the ambition to emerge as the state’s governor since his stints as deputy governor and senator of the state. However, like the biblical Moses, it looks like Omisore will have to be content with only a glimpse of the Promised Land. You couldn’t have forgotten so soon, like a greyhound, Omisore dumped his party, PDP, to join SDP in other to achieve his guber ambition. But the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party in Osun State, Chief Ademola Isola, has said the leadership of the party in the state is not aware of the intention of Senator Iyiola Omisore to contest the governorship election. Omisore had penultimate Saturday picked the expression of interest form in Abuja to contest the September 22 governorship election in Osun State. But the state chairman of the SDP on Monday at a press conference in Osogbo said the intention of the former deputy governor of the state was unknown to the party in the state. The SDP chairman said, “There are only three governorship aspirants in our party. They are: Mr. Abdulwakeel Adeola, Mr. Kolawole Oladeji and Mr. Munirudeen Atanda. The three aspirants are known as governorship aspirants.” By virtue of this, his governorship hopes appears to have been shattered into smithereens, postponing any good news from that end by yet another four years in the least.
Like persistent, soothing draft of the north wind across the Pacific, glad tidings of happiness and joy rent the air in Aiteo Group, even as you read. The reason is hardly far-fetched! A federal high court in Abuja has ruled a stay of action in the case brought against Benedict Peters, founder and chief executive officer of Aiteo Group.
In February, the group got an interlocutory injection restraining the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the attorney general of the federation (AGF) from interfering or obstructing its business operations.
In suit number FCT/HC/CV0536/17, the court heard that properties belonging exclusively to Peters were wrongfully included in a list of properties allegedly owned by Diezani Alison-Madueke, former Minister of Petroleum.
At the hearing on Monday, Peters asked the court to restrain EFCC and the UK-based agencies from “interfering/ continued interference with the properties, either by way of criminal indictment, charge, interdiction, extradition or in any other manner infringing in the quiet and peaceable enjoyment of the said properties.”
Peters also demanded $5 billion in compensation for what he described as a “series of unlawful and fraudulent conspiracies allegedly organised by the EFCC, AGF, the National Crime Agency and Crown Prosecution Service (UK) and individuals, Helen Hughes, Stacey Boniface, and John Banister”. A.T Gazali, counsel to the AGF challenged the ruling, arguing that the defendants were entitled to the protection of sovereign immunity. After listening to the arguments of both counsel, the court made an order enjoining the parties to maintain the status quo. The case was adjourned till a date to be communicated to the parties. Industry is a tasking field, in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the merchant’s honour. In full acknowledgment of this fact, Prince Dapo Abiodun is now a doctor of finance. However, his ascent to the steep slope of entrepreneurial success and acclaim was pockmarked with challenges. It was replete with rigours and disappointments. But he towered above all odds to become a successful magnate with vested interest in oil and gas. Today, he is celebrated at home and abroad as one of the crème of Nigeria’s league of extraordinary entrepreneurs. For the umpteenth time, Abiodun, the chairman of the Corporate Affairs Commission, and Heyden Group, has commanded the applause of significant institute. Like an indefatigable knight and conqueror of life’s greatest odds, the foremost entrepreneur has recorded yet another remarkable feat on the conferment of the Doctorate of Finance, (Honoris Causa), penultimate Saturday, at the 23rd Convocation Ceremonies of the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti. Like a lightning shaft from Eden, Dr. Abiodun dazzled a large audience and commanded applause at the ceremony with his gift of gumption and unparalleled intellect in an electrifying speech. Dapo personifies a classic success story of the man who grew to be a titan under the heavyweight of daunting odds, along the torturous path to acclaim. Asides are his manifest depth, his candid cadences, touch with just the faintest whiff of reticence, amplifying his graceful modesty and ability to navigate the tricky slopes of toil, acclaim and humane ethics - whether in the cut-throat world of commerce or social politics.