The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expelled a former governorship aspirant in Osun State, Prince Dotun Babayemi. The decision was announced by the party’s Otun Balogun Ward 2, Gbongan on Friday, where the politician’s membership originates. Babayemi has continued to legally challenge the candidacy of the party’s candidate in the state’s 16 July governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke. Adeleke got a …

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 …

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded Osun State governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke on his victory. Adeleke defeated the candidate of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, who is also the incumbent governor of the state, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola. President Buhari said the people of the state expressed …

Saraki: Adeleke Has Reclaimed PDP’s Stolen Mandate in Osun Former President of the Senate, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki has congratulated Osun State Governor-elect, Senator Ademola Adeleke for reclaiming what he described as “the stolen mandate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)”. Adeleke led in the election four years, but the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the poll inconclusive given …

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 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 …

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 …