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By Joseph Akanbi The Social Democratic Party (SDP), has on Wednesday, the 18th July, conducted two separate primaries where candidates emerged for Osun State governorship election scheduled to hold on the 22nd of September, 2018. The party which has been engulfed in leadership crisis in the last few weeks is…
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By Femi Adesola A bill to establish a Federal College of Agriculture has passed through second reading at the lower house of the Nigerian National Assembly, the House of Representatives. The bill, sponsored by Hon Oluwole Oke, representing Ijesha North (Obokun/Oriade) Federal Constituency at the Federal house, came up…
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By Joseph Akanbi The All Progressives Congress has announced Friday, 20th July, as the new date for its governorship primary in Osun State. The governorship primary which was scheduled to hold today, 19th July, was postponed in a Press statement issued by the Director of Media and Strategy for the…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed concern over vote-buying during elections in Nigeria. The two major parties – All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – in the Ekiti state gubernatorial election which held on Saturday induced voters with money. Mohammed Haruna, a national commissioner of…
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One of the governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State, Mr Kunle Adegoke, has accused the Osun State Government of planning to manipulate the party’s governorship primary election in favour of the Chief of Staff to the governor, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola. The aspirant, who is a Lagos-based…
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By Joseph Akanbi The All Progressives Congress has postponed its gubernatorial primaries scheduled to hold tomorrow, July 19th. Recall that the party had earlier postponed the guber primaries from July 7 to 19, it is now unclear when the primary will hold. In a statement signed by the Director…
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By Femi Adesola A frontline Gubernatorial aspirant under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Engr. Adelere Oriolowo, has denied rumours making the rounds that he has accepted to fly the Guber ticket as Deputy Governorship candidate to Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola. Oriolowo, stated this today while addressing an enlarged audience…
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The Peoples Democratic Party is currently panicking and mapping out strategies to make sure that it does not suffer defeat in the September 17 governorship election in Osun State as it did in Ekiti State on Saturday, The PUNCH has learnt. It was gathered that the members of the National Working Committee…
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No fewer than twelve gubernatorial aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and members of the party in Osun West senatorial district have rejected direct primary election being considered by the party to determine its candidate for the September 22nd governorship election in Osun State. The…
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By Femi Adesola A non government organization that enables people collaborate, track and give feedback on public projects in their communities “trackaNG” has revealed that Osun State received the highest allocation for constituency projects in 2018 budget. This was made known via their twitter handle @trackaNG with an infographic highlighting…
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