Category: Politics

Major political parties are in the final leg of the campaign for votes ahead of Saturday’s Ondo State governorship election. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and All Progressives Congress (APC) party leaders will host the ground rally in Akure, the state capital today. Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is leading members of the Campaign Council to the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have urged Ondo voters to massively choose candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu in Saturday’s governorship poll. Buhari, who virtually addressed the crowd at the mega rally of the APC, said he has taken interest in the Ondo APC campaign. The President, who hailed […]

The crisis rocking the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Ondo State has deepened. The leaders are divided between endorsing Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, or Mr Eyitayo Jegede of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. SDP Governorship candidate Prince Oyeleye Fasua collapsed his structure for Akeredolu, while the acting state Chairman, Dele […]

Barring all odds, the people of Ondo State will file out on October 10 to elect a governor who will pilot the affairs of the state for the next four years. The Ondo election is an off cycle election, just like the recently held Edo election, which returned the incumbent governor, Godwin Obaseki, of the […]

Governor is embattled, bitter – Ajayi’s camp Ondo State Governor, Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has said that his deputy, Agboola Ajayi, is wasting all resources acquired from the state to give former governor Olusegun Mimiko political resurrection. While Mr Akeredolu is the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the coming October 10 governorship […]

Ahead of the Governorship election holding on Saturday in Ondo State, the National Peace Committee led by former Military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, retired, and other stakeholders in the exercise have called for a free, fair and credible poll, urging political parties and their supporters to shun violence. They include the state’s House […]

By Banji Ayoola Candidates participating in Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State have pledged to shun violence or any act likely to disrupt or truncate the exercise. These were the main terms of a peace accord which they signed in Akure the state capital on Tuesday. The signing of the pact was witnessed by the […]

The National Peace Committee, NPC, has called for free, fair, credible and peaceful governorship poll in Ondo State. It admonished the candidates, security agencies, the Independent National Electoral Commission,  civil societies, the traditional rulers and the citizens of Ondo State to support the peaceful process in the state. In a statement signed by its Chairman, […]

Police, security agencies deploy 37, 283 men We will deal decisively with troublemakers – Adamu Votes will count – Yakubu ‘No one will benefit from impunity or be rewarded for bad behaviour such as vote-buying, ballot box snatching and stuffing, multiple voting, hijacking and diversion of election materials, disruption of collation, falsification of results, attack […]

Ondo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation and Chairman, Media, and Publicity Committee ofthe Oluwarotimi Akeredolu Campaign Organisation, Mr Donald Ojogo, has said all odds were in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate securing victory with a wide margin in next Saturday governorship election. Ojogo said there was no way Akeredolu could lose […]