The Osun State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ademola Adeleke has written a letter to diplomatic missions in Nigeria, raising alarm over threats to his life and alleged clamp down on his supporters ahead of Thursday’s supplementary polls. In the letter already dispatched to diplomatic missions, Adeleke catalogued the many infractions…
A piece written By Reuben Abati What is going on in Osun state right now is nothing short of political theatre. It is keeping us all entertained, but it has also turned so many observers into emergency lawyers. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the Osun Gubernatorial election of September 22 inconclusive and has…
The former Senate President of Nigeria, who is also a Peoples Democratic Party Presidential aspirant, Senator David Mark, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission to do the needful by declaring Senator Ademola Adeleke winner of the last Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State. He said it was incontrovertible that results announced by the electoral umpire…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, Alhaji Fatai Oyedele, popularly known as Diekola, has been attacked by some hoodlums suspected to be loyal to the ruling All Progressives Congress. It was gathered that some PDP thugs with some chieftains of the party had earlier come to Alekuwodo area where Ward 5,…
The All Progressives Congress candidate in the Osun State governorship election, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, has said that he believes he will win the election because he has laboured so hard. Oyetola said this shortly after casting his vote at Ward 1, Unit 2 in Iragbiji, Boripe Local Government Area of the state. He arrived, alongside…
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Osun State governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, just said he would emerge the winner of the election, if the election is free and fair. He said the various allegations against him were false, that he is eminently qualified for the election, adding that the allegations were intended to…
Nigerian senator and governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Ademola Adeleke has debunked rumours that he withdrew from the Osun State Governorship Election, to pave way for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate, Iyiola Omisore. The governorship candidate in a statement by his spokesman, Olawale Rasheed on Friday, 21st of September, denied the rumour…
The Peoples Democratic Party for the governorship election candidate of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke was summoned before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Bwari, Abuja on the 19th of September for result forgery issued by Justice Othman Musa. According to Punch the senator appeared for just one of the exams with a failure of F9…
Yesterday, news broke out that fashionable Nollywood actress Mercy Aigbe-Gentry had been arrested alongside her brother by Policemen at Olaiya junction, in Osun state. Here’s how Vanguard / reports the story: “Star Yoruba movie actress, Mercy Aigbe-Gentry, Wednesday had a bruise with some armed policemen in Osogbo when the vehicle she was traveling with was impounded by them.…
The 51stOoni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has released some photos ahead of his coronation ceremony and Lord help us but the man is fine! Dressed in all-white attire with royal beads and a white staff, the new King oozes royalty in the new photos. The official coronation and public inauguration ceremony of Oba…