The Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State, Peter Ayodele Fayose, as winner of Saturday’s poll. The electoral body made the announcement around 4:25am on Sunday, declaring that the former governor of the state scored the highest number of votes in all the 16 local…
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Fayose Vows To Accept Ekiti Poll Outcome
Candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, in the governorship election held in Ekiti on Saturday, Ayodele Fayose, has promised to accept any result announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The former Ekiti State governor revealed this shortly after casting his vote on Saturday afternoon at Unit 001 Polling Centre located at St…
How Isiaka Adeleke Collected N20m Monthly From Aregbesola To Betray PDP
Former governor Isiaka Adeleke of Osun State is a man many people have come to know as someone with his own style. The famous ‘serubawon’ has a unique style of wearing his cap, and not only that, his political move is also for the records. Just recently, the stylish politician dumped the Peoples Democratic Party…
Gov Fayemi Debunks Arrest Tale
The governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, has denied reports claiming he was arrested by some security operatives ahead of Saturday’s (today) governorship election in the state. In a statement by one of his aides, Dimeji Daniels, the governor noted that he is in his country home in Isan-Ekiti, ready to cast his vote as…
Ekiti 2014: Result Won't Be Announced In Abuja–REC Says
Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Ekiti State, Halilu Pai, has disclosed that result of Saturday’s gubernatorial poll will not be announced in Abuja, but in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. Pia was reacting to a rumour being speculated in some quarters that the result of governorship election in Ekiti…
Chibok Girls: FG Goes Tough On School Owners As C'ttee Submits Report
The Presidential Fact-finding Committee on the Abduction of Chibok Schoolgirls, which was set up by President Goodluck Jonathan, has submitted its report. Chairman of the committee, Brig-Gen Ibrahim Sabo (rtd), presenting its findings to Jonathan, noted that some students of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, were truly kidnapped by some gunmen at their…
No Impeachment Plot Against Amaechi–PDP
Following an allegation made by the Rivers State government that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was planning to remove the state governor, Rotimi Amaechi, through an impeachment, the party, via its state chapter, has played such down and stated that there’s no iota of truth in it, also expressing worries why Amaechi is even afraid…
Arrest PDP Spokesman Now–APC
The Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has asked security operatives to immediately arrest spokesman of the Rivers State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Felix Obuah, Jerry Needam, for accusing the Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi of being behind the current influx of the suspected terrorists to the Southern part of…
Delegates Want Life Sentence For Pension Funds Thieves
Members of the National Conference holding in Abuja have recommended life imprisonment for any government official found guilty of stealing funds meant for pensioners. At Thursday’s plenary, the delegates also proposed a 50-year-imprisonment for any judicial officer found guilty of corruption or abuse of office and also recommended that such judicial officer should be stripped…
30 US Observers For Ekiti Polls
No fewer than 30 observers have been deployed by the United States of America, USA, to monitor gubernatorial election in Ekiti State on Saturday. This was made known by the US Embassy in Abuja through a statement issued on Thursday. It was disclosed in the release that the polls on Saturday will be an important…