The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Campaign Council for Ondo State governorship election, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has congratulated the party’s candidate, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa for his victory in Saturday’s gubernatorial election. In a congratulatory message he personally signed and issued in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Sunday, shortly after Aiyedatiwa was declared winner by the Independent …

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has won the Ondo State governorship election. He emerged victorious in all the 18 Local Government Areas polling 366,781 votes as against 117,845 votes recorded by his closest rival, Chief Agboola Ajayi, who flew the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party. Ajayi was Deputy Governor to the now late …

The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room has decried the trend of vote-buying during the Ondo State governorship election, held on Saturday. In an interim statement on the election, the civil society organisation said its observers found that polling units opened early across the state. It said that election officials and materials arrived early in 97 per cent of the polling …

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended the Independent Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) and the security agencies for the smooth-conduct of the Ondo State governorship election. Last Wednesday, a team from the NWC, led by the party’s National Chairman, Dr.  Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, arrived Akure, the Ondo State capital, in solidarity with the …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu; his Ogun State counterpart, Prince Dapo Abiodun; and Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Abiodun Oyebanji on Wednesday stormed Akure, the Ondo State capital, to solicit support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa in Saturday’s governorship election Sanwo-Olu, who doubles as the Chairman of APC National Campaign Council for Ondo …

The Ondo State chapters of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools in Nigeria (ASUSN) and that of the Association of Nigerian Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPS) have endorsed the governorshio candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa. The election holds on Saturday. The groups made their position known at an event held at the …

The Deputy National Chairman (North) of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC), Hon. Ali Dalori has poured encomium on the party’s candidate in the 16 November governorship election in Ondo State, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa for the huge development projects in his 10-month reign as the state governor. Aiyedatiwa succeeded Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, who died in a German hospital last December after …

Three weeks before the governorship election in Ondo State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured journalists in the state that their safety during the coverage of the election would be guaranteed. The commission also warned journalists against publishing and spreading fake news before and during the election, which is set for 16 November. At a media workshop on …

There is no way a man would judge his own case and lose. That is the logical basis for the legal maxim, nemo judex in causa sua. It is the reason an umpire’s company is always of interest to contestants. It has been repeatedly said that unless Nigerians break the unholy alliance between the tripodal axis of evil of political …