Tag: Election

Former chairman of Okitipupa local government of Ondo State, Hon. Solomon Bitire, has declared intention to represent the peoples’ of Okitipupa constituency II in Ondo State House of Assembly under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State. Declaring his intention at the party’s secretariat in Okitipupa town of Ondo State, Bitire sought the support…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo today visited the leaders of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, at the house of Pa Reuben Fasoranti in Akure, the Ondo State capital. Obasanjo said: “I remember visiting Pa Abraham Adesanya thrice in Lagos before the 1999 election and I was asked to join Afenifere and Alliance for Democracy then, but I…

In what look like a palpable fear in the camp of President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2019 general election in Nigeria, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, the minister of transport has hurriedly placed a phone called to the President, informing him of the danger of parallel Congresses held by the party, APC , and the threat…

The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun, the Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Alhaji Kabiru Adjoto, and some leaders of the party loyal to Oyegun were absent at the party’s state Congress held on Saturday in Edo State. All the party executive members were elected through affirmation…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) held a secret Congress in an undisclosed location in Imo State of Nigeria despite the court order by a Federal High Court sitting in Owerri not to hold the party Congress in Imo State. Recall that the Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital has stopped the APC…

The American Government has again said it expects nothing less than credible and fair exercise in the July 14 governorship poll in Ekiti State, saying it will closely monitor events, before, during and after the poll. This was stated in Ado-Ekiti by the Political/Economic Chief, United States Consulate, Lagos, Mr Osman Tat, during a courtesy…

A close associate of governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has confidentially told Starnews.com.ng that governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has alledgely given nod to the second term bid of senator Yele Omogunwa to contest for second term as the senatorial  candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo south in the forth coming 2019 State…

The official results declared by the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (SIECOM) indicates that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has won 5 local governments while the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is leading with 12 local governments in the just concluded local government election in Kaduna State. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that 3 local government…