Against all expectations that Edo Central senatorial district would produce the Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku, representing Owan West constituency in Edo North senatorial district, on Friday emerged Speaker of the 8th Assembly, while Maria Edeko (Esan North-East constituency II) was elected deputy speaker of the 24-member legislature. Agbebaku, who…
Vote-buying Drama: Gov. Abiodun Also Bought Votes with ₦3bn – Adebutu
Dragged to court for allegedly deploying whooping ₦2 billion to buy votes during the March 18 governorship and House of Assembly elections, Ogun State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Oladipupo Adebutu, has fired back, alleging that Dapo Abiodun, incumbent governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC during the disputed election,…
Don’t Oppress Anyone with Your Positions, Delta PFN Chairman Warns Leaders, As Oborevwori Assures of Repositioning State
Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, has assured the people of the state that great things would begin to happen in the state under his watch to reposition it in the comity of states, even as the state Chairman of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Enakirerhi, admonishes leaders not to oppress anyone with their…
Court Affirms Abure as LP National Chairman
Respite has come the way of the embattled national chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Julius Abure, who was in March this year indefinitely suspended by his Uromi Ward 3 constituency in Esan North East local government area of Edo State. An Edo State High Court presided over by Justice Emmanuel Okey Aihamoje on Friday…
Court Judgement: Labour Party May Lose Only Governor, Others
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano, presided over by Justice M. N. Yunusa has on Friday, May 19, delivered a judgement that may cancel the victory of Alex Otti, the Abia State Governor-elect, and all the candidates of the Labour Party particularly in Abia and Kano States. The high court ruled that their emergence…
Edo 2024: Governorship Aspirant Raises Alarm Over Malicious Removal of Campaign Billboards Allegedly at Instance of Unnamed Government Official
A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship aspirant in the 2024 governorship election in Edo State, John Ehibhationman Yakubu, has cried out over the removal of his billboards placed at strategic locations in Benin City, the state capital, allegedly orchestrated by an unnamed “top government official”. Yakubu, one-time Esan North-East local government council chairman, while calling…
Edo 2024: Aspirants Promoting Ethnic Agenda Are Lazy Lots – Idahosa
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, and former political aide to former governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has knocked some governirship aspirants jostling to succeed Governor Godwin Obaseki in 2024 for playing the ethnic card, dismissing them as “lazy lots”. In apparent reference to the agitation by Ishan-speaking people of Edo Central…
Oyetola Accepts Defeat, Congratulates Adeleke
Adegboyega Oyetola, former governor of Osun State has accepted the verdict of the Supreme Court , which gave electoral victory at the July 2022 election to Governor Ademola Adeleke. Though he said he and his party presented a good case before the court, the decision of the court, being the final arbiter, had been accepted…
Buhari, Tinubu Congratulate Adeleke
President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, have in separate statements congratulated Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State over his victory at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The president, in a statement by Femi Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity said he recognized the verdict of the apex court as the final in…
Edo 2024: Obaseki Strategises for Crucial Election, Sacks Cabinet, Horde of Political Aides
The Edo State executive council has been dissolved. A terse statement on Wednesday signed by Crusoe Osagie, special adviser to Governor Godwin Obaseki on media projects, terminated the appointments of the commissioners and special advisers who were sworn in October 6, 2021, and February 9, 2022. Also sacked “with immediate effect”, were coterie of aides…
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