Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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We read with amusement the ridiculous position of Atiku/Okowa Campaign Council and that of Labour Party/Peter Obi on the absence of our presidential candidate, Asíwájú Bola Ahmed Tinubu, from the poorly organized Town Hall debate session by Arise TV. The separate press releases from these two dead-on-arrival presidential campaign offices sought to make an issue…
Veteran Yoruba film actor, Dele Odule, on Tuesday joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State. Ogun Today reports that Odule joined the PDP at an event held in Ijebu-Ode area of Ogun State. Read also: Ogogo’s family rejects Doyin Kukoyi as 3rd wife, says house Odule was received into the opposition party by…
Ogun APM candidate, Mr Olutosin Jolaoluwa, has said he would not withdraw from the race. In his letter written to the National Chairman of the APM and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr Jolaoluwa, the governorship hopeful stated that he remains the authentic candidate of APM in Ogun State. Reports that former Ogun State…
Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike has filed a suit against former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); his Sokoto state counterpart, Aminu Tambuwal; and the PDP over the party’s presidential primary, which was held in Abuja on May 28 and May 29. While PDP is listed as the…
On Tuesday, protesters surrounded the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national secretariat in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The demonstration touches on the controversies surrounding Sheriff Oborevwori, the Delta State House of Assembly Speaker and PDP candidate for governor in the general elections of 2023. Because of apparent irregularities in his certificates, Sheriff Oborevwori was disqualified on…
The Cross Rivers State Governor Prof Ben Ayade has decamped from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC). Ayade announced his decision on Thursday morning at a meeting with six (6) APC governors who visited him at the Government House in Calabar. Governors in the APC entourage include the…
Ekiti Decide 2018 – Fayemi wins, coasting home to victory already in grand style. Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, in the Ekiti governorship election, is coasting home to victory, according to the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission in the majority of the 16 local councils in the…
National chairmanship aspirant of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the person of the former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, denied yesterday, speculations that he had stepped down for Chief Raymond Dokpesi in the ongoing race. He, however, expressed hope about the possibilities of the South-West trimming its chairmanship candidates before the national convention…
Baglo and 50 others leave PDP for APC. Baglo, real name Raheem Ajayi is Otunba Gbenga Daniel’s aid. He was Special Adviser to the ex-Governor on Youth and Sports. Ajayi said he and others had elected to team up with the APC following the party’s resolve to field an Ogun West man in the 2019 gubernatorial election. They were…
A former Governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, has said his trial for alleged corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is not a threat to his desire to run for the office of the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party. Daniel spoke with journalists in Abuja on Wednesday shortly after obtaining his…
