Buhari, Osinbajo urge Ondo voters to reelect Akeredolu

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 […]

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Akure prophet, Sotitobire’s journey to prison over missing boy

Almost one year after a 13-month-old baby boy, EninlalOluwa Gold Kolawole suddenly disappeared from the children department of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Oshinle Quarters, Akure, Justice has finally been served. Generally, people had waited with bated breath for the outcome of the case Despite the fight by the defense team as it brought another application challenging […]

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Confusion as Ondo SDP candidate backs Akeredolu, chairman endorses Jegede

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 […]

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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 election: Factors for, against Akeredolu

Residents of Ondo State will on Saturday, October 10, visit their various polling units to elect who will oversee the affairs of the state for the next four years. Even though the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said that 17 political parties will take part in the election, the race to the Alagbaka Government House […]

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Let votes count, peace reign in Ondo election

By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa The governorship election in Ondo State is scheduled for Saturday, October 10, 2020. There are similarities and differences in the Edo and Ondo elections and lots of lessons to learn by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. With technology, we should never have a situation of ballot snatching and manipulation of election […]

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Tears, wailing as court jails Akure prophet, Sotitobire over missing child

By Banji Ayoola There were tears, wailing and cursing on Tuesday by members of the Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Akure as the founder and popular cleric, Prophet Alfa Babatunde was being marched to prison following his sentence by an Akure High Court to life imprisonment over the disappearance of a boy in his church last year. […]

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Akure prophet, Sotitobire jailed for life over missing child

By Banji Ayoola Founder of Sotitobire Miracle Centre, Akure, Ondo State, Prophet Alfa Babatunde, was on Tuesday jailed by an Akure High Court over his involvement in the disappearance of a male toddler, Gold Kolawole, in his church. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the court which was presided over by Justice Olusegun Odusola. Also jailed with him were […]

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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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