REACTIONS TRAIL COMPOSITION OF OYO ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEES, OTHER ZONES PROTEST AS IBADAN TAKES LARGEST AND JUICY COMMITTEES.

Reactions have continued to trail the composition of the standing committees of the current Oyo State House of Assembly that were just inaugurated and announced by the Speaker of the House, Hon.Adebo Ogundoyin.

In the committees, 15 honourables from Ibadan made the committees, seven from Oke-Ogun, three from Ogbomoso while two from Oyo zones respectively.

While unveiling the names of chairmen and portfolios from Ibadan axis,  Ogundoyin announced Kehinde Olatunde Taofik from Akinyele11 as Chairman House Committee on Public Account, Finance and Appropriation; Popoola Ademola Olusegun, Ibadan South East 11 as Chairman House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters; Oluwafemi Fowokanmi, Ibadan South West 11 as Chairman House Committee on Education; Olagoke Olamide Francis, Ibadan North East1 as Chairman House Committee on Works and Transport, Mobaje Rasak, Ido as Chairman House Committee on Employment,Labour and Productivity; also Ojedokun Peter Gbadegesin, Ibadan North as Chairman House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources; Olajide Akintunde Emmanuel, Lagelu as Chairman House Committee on Commerce and Cooperatives and Oyekunle Fola, Ibadan North1 as Chairman House Committee on Youth and Sports.

Others are Owolabi Olusola Adewale as Chairman House Committee on Environment and Ecology; Francis A. Adetunji from Oluwole as Chairman House Committee on Investment, Monitoring and State while Rasak Ademola Abdullahi from Ibadan South East1 heads Water Resources, Akeem Obadara,Ibadan North West heads Security and Strategy and Adebayo Babajide Gabriel, Ibadan North11 leads Human Right.

Oke-Ogun zone, Femi Julius from Saki West heads House Committee on Solid Minerals, Adewumi Lateef Olayiwola chairs from Oorelope chairs Special Duties, Adeola Bamidele, Iseyin/Itesiwaju heads Land,Housing and Survey/Legislative Compliance, also Olayanju Qozeem from Irepo/Olorunsogo leads Information and Media, Saminu Riliwan Gbadamosi, Saki East/Atisbo saddles with Health and Mustopha Akeem Olawale from Kajola chairs Science and Technology.

From Ogbomoso, Ogundoyin announced Bamigboye Jacob Abidoye from Oriire as Chairman House Committee on Interparliamentary Relations, Wumi Oladeji as Chairperson on Women Affairs and Community Development and Oyeleke Simeon Adegbola from Ogooluwa/Surulere as Chairman on Establishment, Training and Poverty 

From Oyo zone, Isiaka Kazeem Tunde from Oyo East/West chairs Culture and Tourism and Seyi Adisa, Afijio heads Foreign Relations.

In their  bitter reactions, Emmanuel Abioye, a staunch APC Chieftain in Eruwa, Ibarapa geo-polical zone of Oyo State was embittered with the development.

In a phone chat with him, he said despite the fact that the current speaker of the house emerged from Ibarapa does not mean that the zone should be marginalised and sidelined among the leading beneficiaries of the house committees, describing the marginalization as injustice and unfairness, adding that Hon.Debo Ogundoyin was acting the script of the Governor who had hands in his emergence as a speaker. 

Emmanuel said the speaker could not consider a chairmanship position of a single committee for his zone, adding that Ogundoyin did everything possible to please Ibadan in order to prevent his subsequent impeachment which could be orchestrated by the honourables from the zone.

Ademola Waheed from Itesiwaju Local Government in Oke-Ogun axis said the composition was an injustice of the highest order, adding that Ibadan alone with 11 Local Governments got and chaired the largest and juicy committees, he said the composition of the standing committees was not evenly and equilibriumly distributed,Waheed challenged the speaker for conceding only seven chairmen to Oke-Ogun despite the fact that it has almost equivalent local governments(10) with Ibadan.He called for justice,equity and fairness over the allocation of the dividends of democracy.

Kehinde Ajulo from Oyo said Oyo as a geo-polical zone was no longer ready to play a second fiddle in the scheme of politics,he said Ibadan would continue to manoeuvre things if other zones failed to come together. He added  that the speaker acted their scripts in order to prevent further contingencies.

Temilade Subuloye, a student of Ladoke Akintola University and  native of Ogbomoso said the scenario in the last election triggered the latest treatment, adding that Ogbomoso would never slack and would continue to demand for its rights and privileges in politics.

While Emiloju Ibrahim, an APC staunch supporter in Ibadan said the time of politics had gone but now is for governance which should not be handled with bitterness and acrimony, saying he is an Ibadan man who cares for balance and equilibrium over the dividends of democracy, adding that there was no gainsaying in the fact that Ibadan had largest and juicy committees.

Ibrahim enjoined the speaker to work in line with fairness, Justice and equity and as well be an upright speaker who does things with no regard to nepotism and favouritism.