Category: Politics

    The People Democratic Party Governorship Candidate of Lagos state Jimi Agbaje has dumped the People Democratic Party over an unresolved disagreement between him and the leadership of the party in the state.   This contains in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos. Agbaje revealed that it is necessary for him to […]

Sixteen candidates from various political parties have filed petitions at the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting at the State High Court, Iyaganku Ibadan, Oyo State, following the Feb. 23 elections. A correspondent of NAN who visited the venue of the sitting, on Tuesday reports that the petitions received so far included four from Senatorial […]

  Following the withdrawal of his case filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, which sought to challenge his Senate re-election loss, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the  Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District in the February 23rd Senatorial election, Godswill Akpabio, and his party, have approached the Election Tribunal, […]

    The National Assembly Election Petition tribunal has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) candidate for Oyo central senatorial district in the February 23 national assembly elections, Chief Bisi Ilaka to have access to the materials used for the conduct of the election.   The order followed […]

  …Insists Akpabio is innocent of allegations over election malpractice, violence   By Ekemini Simon   The Leaders and Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Essien Udim Local Government Area have described the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 9th March 2019 election as a pyrrhic victory which will overturn in […]

  The governor Elect of Oyo State Engr. Seyi Makinde has reaffirm for the umpteen time, that the Deputy Governor Elect Engr. Raufu Olaniyan will not be a deputy without responsibilities. He stated this today when elders and party leaders from Oke Ogun paid him a congratulatory   Engr. Makinde noted that Oke Ogun is […]

  The Executive Chairman of Ogbomoso North Local Government Area and son of a former governor, Hon. Olamijuwonlo Ayodeji Alao-Akala, has congratulated the governor-elect of Oyo State , Engr. Seyi Makinde of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) after he was declared the winner of the governorship election held on Saturday, March 9.   In a […]

  The All Progressives Congress in Oyo State has congratulated Engr. Seyi Makinde, the Oyo State Governor elect declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission yesterday in Ibadan. In a statement released by the party’s Publicity Secretary Dr AbdulAzeez Olatunde on Monday, the party congratulated its gubernatorial candidate, Oloye Bayo Adelabu and the Governor elect […]

A member, representing Akinyele/Lagelu Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon Temitope Olatoye, popularly known as Sugar is dead.   He died at the intensive care unit of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, on Saturday, evening, following a gunshot wound he sustained after he was shot in the eye by unknown gunmen in […]

  Former secretary to the state government, Chief Busari Adebisi has affirmed his membership and loyalty to the African Democratic Congress, ADC in Oyo State. Adebisi, a member of the tripartite steering leadership of the ADC made the disclosure on Tuesday at a press briefing at his Oluyole residence. He disproved the hallucinations making round […]