Category: Ondo State

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 […]

Ondo State Executive Council members have passed a vote of confidence in Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu. The document was signed by 33 of the 35 members of the cabinet. Below is the full text of the confidence vote contained in a press statement titled: “We stand by our courageous principal and mentor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu […]

By Reuben Abati Off-cycle elections in Nigeria are elections that are held outside the usual timetable for general elections. When Nigeria returned to democratic, civilian rule in 1999, the expectation was that elections would be held regularly across the federation in a four-year-cycle, but after the 1999 elections, many candidates went to court to protest […]

Civil servants in Ondo State on Wednesday complied with the directive by the state labour leaders directing workers to join the ongoing nationwide strike. Recall that on Tuesday evening, members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Ondo State said they had joined the ongoing and indefinite nationwide strike […]

Prominent elders and leaders of Ondo state met on Monday to wade into the political crisis rocking the state in the last few months over the continued absence of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and the impeachment process instituted against his Deputy, Lucky Aiyedatiwa over alleged gross misconduct. The elders and leaders’ meeting summoned by Afenifere leader, […]

By Kennedy Ikantu Peretei In the last few weeks, Ondo State has dominated front pages of national newspapers as well as discourse in broadcast media platforms for the wrong reason. Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN proceeded on a three-month medical leave after which he returned to his private residence in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. What […]

The 18 immediate past council chairmen in Ondo State have debunked the allegation by the state’s chapter of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that they were still drawing salaries after leaving office. They faulted the allegation credited to the party’s state spokesman, Mr Kennedy Ikantu Peretei as s figment of his imagination. Peretei had […]