Wonders shall never cease to happen in the political firmament of Osun State since after the declaration of the winner and the loser of the governorship election in the state. Untoward incidents hitherto alien to the State of the Virtue have strangely crept in, becoming a source of worry to the discerning members of the public both within and outside …

By Kola Olabisi If a good thing is done at the wrong time and a bad thing is done at the auspicious time, one needs not be a genius to know that the result will be irredeemably catastrophic. There has indeed been an interesting passing phase in the political firmament of Osun State being a governorship election year that was …

For the Governor of Osun State, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, the governorship election conducted last Saturday with results declared the next day is not over yet. The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in that election is set to challenge the victory of Senator Ademola Adeleke and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) through the judicial process. In 2018, Adeleke challenged …

On his second time of trying, Senator Ademola Adeleke has won the Osun State governorship election. The Independent National Electoral Commission declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party the winner of the election in the early hours of Sunday. The Returning Officer for the election and Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, announced that Adeleke …

By Gbenga Olarinoye, Osogbo Ahead of the Saturday governorship election in Osun State, an elder statesman and Second Republic politician, Chief Abiola Ogundokun has said that Governor Gboyega Oyetola is turning the state into “African Singapore”, through his developmental programmes. In a statement in Osogbo on Thursday, Oguntokun said that Oyetola’s style of administration was unique making him second to …

Two days to the Osun States governorship election, a Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit challenging Governor Adegboyega Oyetola’s emergence as the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate for the election. A governorship aspirant in the party’s primary , Alhaji Moshood Olalekan Adeoti sued the APC, Oyetola and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), accusing the Governor of …

By Moshood Fayemiwo In 2018 as political activities revved up to a successor in the State of Osun after the eight years of action-packed performance of my friend, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as Mr Governor, I was a guest of the Osun State Government. I was at the Presidential Lodge with my crew, and the political train of erstwhile Chief of …

Governors, N/Assembly leaders, Ministers included  The All Progressives Congress (APC) has constituted an 86-member National Campaign Council ahead of the 16th July governorship election in Osun State. Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu is the council chairman, while his counterparts in Kano State, Dr Abdullahi and Niger State, Abubakar Sani Bello are respectively co-chairman and deputy chairman. The committee, which …

A presidential hopeful of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Ekiti State Governor, took his nationwide campaign tour to Osun State on Wednesday declaring that all those in the race for the nation’s No 1 seat from the southwest were most qualified for the job. Fayemi, who is a friend of his host, Osun State Governor Gboyega Oyetola, believed to …

By Kola Olabisi It is high time that the controversial and factional Osun State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Nurudeen Ifeanyi Ademola Adeleke, stopped unjustifiably attributing the cause of the litany of his political woes on Governor Gboyega Oyetola and the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC). The recent allegation of Sunday Bisi-led Campaign Organisation of Senator Adeleke …