Category: Ondo State

The Ondo State House of Assembly Assembly and its Speaker on Thursday withdrew its appeal filed before the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division against the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja which stopped the planned impeachment of the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Mr. Lucky Aiyedatiwa. The House and its Speaker had challenged the jurisdiction […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the Ondo State House of Assembly of breaching the law in the appointment of caretaker committees to run the state’s Local Governments and the newly created Local Council Development Areas. In a statement by Leye Igbabo, the Director of Media and Publicity in the state,the party said: “It […]

Speaker, Ondo State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Olamide Oladiji Ondo State House Assembly has confirmed the appointment of interim management committee chairmen and vice chairmen for the 18 local governments areas and 33 Local council development areas of the state. they include 51 chairmen and 51 vice chairmen The confirmation was sequel to the […]

Ondo State House of Assembly on Tuesday commended the revered elder statesman, Pa Rueben Fasoranti for his intervention which led to the resolution of the political crisis which had been rocking the state for some months. It declared its support for the peace deal agreed with President Bola Tinubu by stakeholders in Abuja on Friday […]

Despite the declaration by the presidency that the political crisis rocking Ondo State had been resolved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has insisted that the crisis is not yet over. In a statement on Saturday, titled “Tinubu’s intervention: The siege is not yet over”, and signed by its spokesman […]

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared that Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu remains in office, while Hon Lucky Aiyedatiwa stays on as his deputy. These were parts of the decisions taken on Friday by the President in his intervention to resolve the lingering political crisis which had plagued the state for some months. They were […]

Opaleye Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has described the tenure of the departed former military administrator of the old Ondo State, now comprising Ondo and Ekiti States, Major Gen Ekundayo Babakayode Opaleye (rtd) as indelible. While mourning one of his predecessors, the governor said in a statement on Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard […]

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has knocked the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, over ‘baseless attacks’ on Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu. In a statement by its state Director, Media & Publicity, Mr Steve Otaloro, titled ‘APC, Ondo State commends Governor Akeredolu’s leadership and dismisses PDP,s uninformed criticism’, the party said: “The All Progressives Congress (APC), […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has described as ‘meaningless’ the vote of confidence passed by the state executive council on Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu. In a statement titled “Akeredolu’s cabinet dances naked in the market square”, signed by the party’s state spokesman, Hon Kennedy Ikantu Peretei, the party said: “Keen watchers of Ondo State […]