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The governorship candidate of the Providence People’s Congress in Osun State, Professor Ife Adewumi, has decried the “election rigging” comment credited to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole. Adewumi, who is a former chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities at the Obafemi Awolowo University,…
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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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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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THE Osun State governorship election was concluded after two rounds of voting, the first widely regarded as very credible but stalemated, and the second decisive but thought to be a little controversial. Yet, it was the second round of voting, the rerun in seven polling units, that determined the outcome…
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By Taiwo Adebulu Some stories are better left untold, for the sour memory it evokes leaves the heart totally repugnant to the most trivial of synonymous narratives. They haunt not only to the soul that harbour them. For a journalist, such stories cannot wither. They must be nourished and told. While…
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The Coalition of United Political Parties has described the governorship rerun election in seven polling units in Osun State as a show of shame. It also expressed worry that the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Nigerian security forces had allegedly turned themselves into organs of the All Progressives Congress….
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The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party met in Abuja on Thursday over the conduct of the rerun governorship election in Osun State. While rejecting it, the party also said that the Thursday election was one of the worst days in the history of Nigeria. It described the election…
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