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Aiyedatiwa’s opportunity to redefine leadership

March 12, 2025March 12, 2025Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

By Steve Otaloro In the annals of history, transformative leaders have often emerged at critical junctures, willing to challenge the status quo for the betterment of their people. From Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, these figures have reshaped their nations by daring to think differently. Now, as Governor Lucky […]

LP crisis: Stakeholders read Peter Obi the Riot Act

January 21, 2025Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

The Alliance for All Labour Party Professionals and Stakeholders (AALPS) has raised serious concerns over what it describes as the destabilisation of the party by its 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi. It warned that his actions are threatening the party’s future and could lead to catastrophic electoral consequences in the 2027 general elections. In a […]

Of Ondo PDP and Mass Exodus of Party Members

August 20, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

By Kayode Fasua In the Holy Book of Information that Brings Life Everlasting (BIBLE), the story regales of the convoluted poverty and miasma of deprivation that summarised the existence of the Israelites sojourning in Egypt, as in the days of yore. It was not until the revolutionary moves of a divinely radicalised Moses before the […]

Okorie exposes plot to undermine APGA

July 17, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

Pioneer chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Chekwas Okorie, the Oje Ozi Ndigbo, has exposed an alleged plot to undermine the party. At a press conference in Abuja, he unveiled what he described as a deliberate strategy by the Anambra State Governor, Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo to destabilize the party. He said […]

IPAC pulls out of coming Osun LG election

July 15, 2024July 15, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

The Inter-Party Advisory Council, an umbrella body of all political parties in Osun State, has said it will not participate in the forthcoming local Government election in the State. Osun State Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC) had fixed February February 22, 2025, for the Local Government election in the state. Addressing journalists in Osogbo on Monday, […]

Aiyedatiwa receives APC certificate of return

April 29, 2024April 30, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

NWC endorses Appeal Committee report, ratifies primary outcome The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Umar Abdullahi Ganduje, on Monday presented the Certificate of Return to Ondo State Governor, Hon Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, as the party’s candidate in the November 16 governorship election in the State. This was in a statement by […]

Aiyedatiwa wins APC ticket, pledges to work for greater Ondo

April 22, 2024April 26, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

By Banji Ayoola Ondo State Governor has won the ticket of his party, the All Progressives Congress, as its candidate in the November 16 Governorship Election. The chairman of the Governorship Primary Election Committee and Governor of Kogi State, Ahmed Ododo, on Monday morning in Akure the state capital, announced him winner of the exercise […]

PDP knocks APC over Ondo governorship primary

April 21, 2024April 21, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

Says exercise was a huge charade and mockery of democracy The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described Saturday’s governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Ondo State as a huge charade and mockery of democracy. In a statement on Sunday by its spokesman in the state, Hon Kennedy Ikantu Peretei, the party asked […]

Aiyedatiwa votes at Ilaje home, thanks APC members over ‘democratic process’

April 21, 2024April 26, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

Ondo state governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has commended the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), members for participating in the “democratic process” of Saturday’s primary exercise. He and 14 other governorship aspirants of the party took part in the exercise, held in the 18 LGAs of the state. The governor, who voted at Ugbo Ward 4, in […]

Falemu, Babalola, others in Akure North defect to APC

March 10, 2024March 10, 2024Olabanji AyoolaLeave a Comment

Chief Ladi Falemu, the PDP coordinator in Akure North Local Government, and others have defected to the APC. This was in a statement by the APC Director of Media & Publicity in the state, Mr Steve Otaloro. He said this decision, which took place last week, “marks a significant shift in the political landscape of […]