As the race for 2023 grows hotter, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has finally pronounced Bayo Lawal as his running mate ahead of the 2023 elections.
Makinde made this announcement on Tuesday.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the governor made the announcement during a meeting with some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders from the Oke Ogun zone.
Some of the PDP leaders who were at the meeting according to sources are former PDP Chairman in the state, Kunmi Mustapha, his successor, Dayo Ogungbenro and Senator Hosea Agboola.
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Our correspondent reports that the announcement of Lawal who is the Chairman, Oyo State Housing Corporation, has cleared the speculations over who the governor will use as his running mate in 2023.
Lawal, a lawyer is from Kishi in Irepo local government area of Oke Ogun zone.
Africa Daily News, New York had earlier reported that Makinde has dropped hisDeputy, Rauf Olaniyan who is Igboho in Oorelope local government area in Oke Ogun zone.
Makinde had earlier dropped Olaniyan and replaced him with Lawal.
Both Makinde and Olaniyan were elected as governor and Deputy governor on the platform of PDP in 2019.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that the announcement of Lawal is coming two days after Olaniyan said he has dumped the PDP and joined the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Olaniyan had earlier claimed that about five political parties are asking him to contest on their platforms.
In another report, the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has said he is withholding the subvention of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, until the institution’s chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) suspends its ongoing strike.
Speaking on a range of issues at his third-year anniversary media chat at the state-owned Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS) Television in Ibadan on Saturday, Mr Makinde said the government will continue paying the subvention when the strike is suspended.
“If the lecturers are sensitive to their people they would not join the ASUU strike. As of today, I am withholding their subvention until they go back to classes,” he wrote in a tweet on Saturday.
“When they go back to classes we will start paying their subventions.”
But the ASUU-LAUTECH has insisted that it is not suspending the strike until it receives a directive from the national body of the union.
“We are still part of the ongoing nationwide struggle of the union to reposition our public universities,” Biodun Olaniran, ASUU-LAUTECH chairperson told Tribune on Saturday.
ASUU, the union of academics in Nigerian universities, had embarked on a nationwide strike since February 14, crippling activities across all public universities in the country. The initial four-week strike has been extended and is currently in its third month.
