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The National Working Committee of the African Democratic Congress (ADC),has appointed Alhaji Fatai Akinbade as the Chairman of the National Electoral Committee for Ogun State primaries of the party slated for tomorrow, Wednesday. Akinbade who was the Osun State ADC governorship candidate at the just concluded election,was mandated by the…
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The Alliance of Collaborating Political Parties, ACPP, has advised the Governor elect in Osun state, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, to run an inclusive government and regard the entire state as his constituency. The group at a press conference on Monday, urged Oyetola not to be Governor of APC or the communities…
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By Femi Adesola The Osun state Governorship election has been won and lost, irrespective of what transpired, winners have emerged and the losing side already strategizing on way forward as politics is not for the faint hearted and power is not served A lacarté. To the political gladiators, either from…
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Worried by the outcome of events at the just concluded Osun elections, the Catholic church of Nigeria has raised alarm over Nigeria’s peace.A statement by the Caritas Nigeria and Justice Development and Peace Commission (JDPC), organs of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria for relief and development, INEC was in…
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The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, Mr. Soji Adagunodo, has said the party is compiling names of its members either killed or injured by hoodlums during the governorship rerun held in the state on Thursday. Adagunodo said the PDP had invited leaders of the party at…
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African Democratic Congress (ADC) yesterday accused President Muhammadu Buhari of leading a government of gangsters, following the declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, as winner of the Osun State governorship election. In a statement issued by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mrs. Yemi Kolapo, said…
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Delegations from the Missions of the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States said they observed widespread interference and intimidation of voters, journalists, and civil society observers by political party supporters and security agencies during Osun governorship rerun. The observers noted that their findings mirrored those of leading…
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Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose, yesterday, described the Osun State governorship re-run election last Thursday as a show of shame. Fayose also alleged that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and his ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) have killed democracy in Nigeria with the outcome of what he described as…
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If the reports of bruised heads, the intimidation and arrest of opposition party agents, alleged complicity of security agents and protests which characterised the Osun State governorship rerun elections that produced the All Progressives Congress, (APC) candidate, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola are anything to go by, then the credibility of the…
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Nigerian musician, Davido, was very active and vocal about the Osun election and its follow up rerun which had his uncle, Senator Ademola Adeleke, as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the governorship seat in the state. Following the outcome of the rerun election last Thursday,the Independent…
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