{"id":24201,"date":"2020-02-02T14:28:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T13:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24201"},"modified":"2020-02-02T14:28:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T13:28:51","slug":"keep-nigeria-one-alafin-charges-lawmakers-as-gbajabiamila-commissions-projects-in-oyo-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24201","title":{"rendered":"Keep Nigeria one, Alafin charges lawmakers as Gbajabiamila commissions projects in Oyo state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has charged federal awmakers to do everything necessary to keep Nigeria one.<br \/>\nThe paramount ruler said there is no country without its challenges and Nigeria has gone through a lot and cannot afford to disintegrate.<br \/>\nHe spoke when he met with Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep Femi Gbajabiamila, who was in Oyo State on Friday to commission three road and erosion control projects, executed under the Ecological Fund.<br \/>\nThe Speaker, who was accompanied by two senators from the state and some members of the House of Representatives from within and outside the state, paid a visit to the paramount ruler in the state.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24199\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24199\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-01-31-at-6.13.55-PM-1-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R: Senator representing Oyo Central Senatorial District, Teslim Folarin; Speaker of Nigeria\u2019s House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; Chairman, House Committee on Communications, Akeem Adeyemi; Senator representing Oyo North Senatorial District, Fatai Buhari at the commissioning of roads and erosion control projects facilitated by Adeyemi in Oyo federal constituency, Oyo State on Friday. Photo : Speaker\u2019s Media Unit<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nReceiving the Speaker&#8217;s team in his palace, the Alaafin thanked Gbajabiamila, the National Assembly and the Federal Government for ensuring the projects were accommodated in the budget and completed.<br \/>\nHe also appealed to the Speaker to help ensure that the Erelu Oyo Water Scheme Expansion project is provided for in the 2021 Budget and that the Federal College of Education in Oyo is upgraded to the Federal University of Special Needs Education.<br \/>\nThe Speaker thanked the Alaafin for receiving them, saying the Alaafin was a father to him and had shown up physically in the House chamber in 2015 to observe the election of Speaker. He said the royal father was saddened that Rep Gbajabiamila had not emerged Speaker then.<br \/>\nThe speaker promised that the house will consider the two projects mentioned in the coming year\u2019s budget.<br \/>\nThe Speaker and other lawmakers were then taken round the city where he commissioned three road and erosion control projects at Kosobo\/Awe Road, Boro-boro\/School of Science Road (Oba Adeyemi lll Road), and Amulekowo\/Commercial Secondary School Bridge, Koso<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has charged federal awmakers to do everything necessary to keep Nigeria one. The paramount ruler said there is no country without its challenges and Nigeria has gone through a lot and cannot afford to disintegrate. He spoke when he met with Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":24200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[906,114,249],"class_list":["post-24201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alafin","tag-gbajabiamila","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}