Ondo election: Akeredolu, Jegede, Ajayi’s strengths, weaknesses

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 […]

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Ondo 2020: My deputy wasting money on Mimiko’s resurrection – Akeredolu

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 […]

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Ondo poll: Stakeholders canvass peace as parties gear up

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 […]

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Ondo election: Akeredolu, Jegede, Ajayi, others sign peace pact

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 […]

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Ondo: Abdulsalami’s peace committee calls for peaceful election

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, […]

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Police, INEC pledge free, fair, credible Ondo governorship election

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 […]

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Akeredolu’s chances in Ondo election bright, says Ojogo

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 […]

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Appeal court nullifies Bayelsa Governor Diri’s sack

A five-man panel of the Court of Appeal on Friday overturned a ruling which nullified the election of Douye Diri as governor of Bayelsa State. The court held that the Bayelsa Election Petition Tribunal acted outside its jurisdiction by nullifying Diri’s election. In a unanimous judgment, the five-man panel of the court said the Advanced […]

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Akeredolu attacks PDP over Mimiko, says party crying more than the bereaved

You can’t ditch Jegede’s ambition halfway, PDP chieftain tells Mimiko ‘PDP, ZLP should team up to defeat APC’ Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has flayed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for meddling in his strained relationship with his former friend and predecessor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko. He wondered why the PDP was sulking over the statement […]

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PDP 2019 presidential election review panel consults Obasanjo, Babangida, Mark

The Governor Bala Mohammed-led Peoples Democratic Party 2019 Election Review Committee has held separate consultative meetings with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida and former Senate President, David Mark. Mohammed and members of his team, which include former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido; and his Niger State counterpart, Babangida Aliyu, met […]

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