Ex-Lagos governor will speak at appropriate time – Spokesperson Former APC chairman has no personal opinion, will back Ize-Iyamu’s position – Aide The September 19, 2020 Edo State governorship election has come and gone but the embers of the episodic event continue to glow in the glade of public discourse. Although 14 parties fielded candidates […]
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Barely two weeks after a fire incident at the Akure office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), it has replaced the 5,000 smart card readers destroyed in the inferno. The smart card readers sourced from the Oyo State office of the commission have been received by the Akure office, it was learnt. The State […]
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Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, has promised to end clashes between farmers and herders in communities in Akure North local government. He made the promise when he took his campaigns to Aiyede/Ogbese, Ilu Abo, Bolorunduro, Alayere and Eleyeowo communities . The PDP candidate stated that it was regrettable that […]
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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Godwin Obaseki on Tuesday received his certificate of return from Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Obaseki won the Edo governorship on Saturday. “I received my certificate of return today from INEC Nigeria after the landmark victory in Saturday’s election,” Obaseki said in a Twitter post. “I restate my commitment to […]
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By Osaro Aigbogun L-R: Deputy Governor-Elect, Philip Shaibu; Chairman, PDP National Campaign Council for Edo State governorship election/Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike; and Governor-Elect, Godwin Obaseki, at a press conference after the declaration of the PDP as the winner of the governorship election in Benin…on Sunday. Photo: Edo State Government House “If you talk […]
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The suspected political thugs being taken to Olokuta Prisons By Shefiu Adeyemo An Akure Magistrate Court on Tuesday remanded for one month, seven suspected political thugs who allegedly attacked the campaign train of All Progressives Congress, APC candidate in the October 10 governorship election and Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, on September 19 at Ifon […]
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Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State, Mr Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has told aggrieved aspirants, who are yet to key into his re-election campaign, to do so and not after the October 10 election. He said over 90 per cent of the aspirants that contested at the APC primaries had pledged […]
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Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, has disowned suspected thugs arrested with firearms at Ifon in Ose Local Government. He was scheduled to stop at Ifon as part of his local government campaign tour. The suspected hoodlums were inside a Toyota Sienna bus branded with Jegede’s […]
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Prominent Peoples Democratic stalwarts, including, two former Senate Presidents- Bukola Saraki and David Mark, have welcomed the re-election of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State. Others who cheered Obaseki’s victory were erstwhile Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, Minority Leader of the Senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe and Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Ndudi Elumelu. They […]
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By Seinde Arogbofa Governance in a season of anomie In this period of anomie, I wonder why any person or group of persons should be thinking of Utmost Good Faith in Governance. One is surprised too at the choice of words and how they have been put together: all positive and superlative – utmost, good, […]
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