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 ‘I did not have discussion with anybody to change LGA Party Executives’ – Joke Orelope By Toyo C. Ngem A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Mosan/Okunola Local Council Development Area in Alimosho Federal Constituency Engineer Taofik Lawal, has said he had no regret aligning his loyalty cause with the former Deputy Governor of Lagos, Her Excellency, Dr. (Princess) Adejoke Orelope Adefulire (OFR, MGAC). He added that it was regrettable that Chief Abel Badejo would play, innocently or consciously, into the gambit of Alhaji Yisa Yusuf (aka Y.Y.) to “rubbish” the leadership of Joke Orelope, who happens to be the Alimosho’s sole member of the Lagos prestigious progressive politicians’ elite club referred to as the Governance Advisory COMMITTEE (GAC). Mr Lawal, who spoke with this magazine over his purported removal from the LGA pARTY executives, said the whole scheme that played out as a peace initiative between Chief Abel Badejo and Alhaji Yusuf was a ruse, but a pl...

-- If only Alhaji Shamsideen Adebimpe knew he had trodden upon a python to the anger of Isheri Olofin people! By Razaq Adedeji Jimoh When Apostle Cornellius Ojelabi , the State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, described Oba Wahab Ayinde Balogun, the late Onisheri of Isheri kingdom as one monarch "loved by his people", it was not sure if he had actually learnt about the many parts of the king that made it so. This past Sunday, December 18, 2022, Isheri Olofin Town was agog with the final burial of the king, who passed away about the first quarters of this year. The late monarch could be regarded as a personal friend and a Royal Father to the enterprise of Civics Weekly and its parent company, Yemab Publishers and Enterprises, because of the robust confidentiality, trust and openness the media house enjoyed in relationship with him -- for a short period of about two years though. To this extent, this magazine decided to bring forth what many may not know as...