Former Governor of Ekiti State and serving minister, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, winner of the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti state has apologised to the people for all the errors he made during his first term as governor, between 2010 and 2014. He made the plea in his speech after being declared […]
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Mr Dayo Adeyeye, a governorship aspirant in the just concluded Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary, says he is defecting to another party in order to realise his ambition of providing rapid development in the state. Adeyeye, who polled 771 votes out of the 1,986 cast during the primary, made this known on Thursday in Ado-Ekiti. […]
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Senator Babafemi Ojudu, an adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on political matters, has quit the Ekiti state governorship race. Ojudu was one of the 33 aspirants in the aborted All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary on Saturday, May 5. At a press conference in Ado-Ekiti today, he said he has decided to withdraw from the […]
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rescheduled its governorship primary election in Ekiti to Saturday. The party had earlier fixed the election for Friday after the last exercise ended on an inconclusive note. In a statement on Thursday, Bolaji Abdullahi, spokesman of the APC, said the new date was fixed after consultation between the party’s […]
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The crisis rocking the Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) after Saturday’s inconclusive primary took a different dimension on Monday as police have sealed the party’s secretariat. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that protesters, who claimed to be sympathetic to the aspiration of the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, […]
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Voting at the ongoing governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has stopped, as violent thugs disrupted the process. They attacked the ballot boxes and smashed it to the ground, emptying the ballot papers on the ground. The security agencies, who were caught unawares, had a serious time as they tried to […]
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Mr Kayode Fayemi, defeated in the 2013 governorship election in Ekiti state, is to contest for the position again on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The current Minister of Mines and Steel Development was defeated by incumbent Ayo Fayose of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Fayemi said on Sunday that he will […]
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About twenty-four states houses of assemblies have passed the ‘not too young to run’ bill in the country. The latest states to pass the bill are Plateau and Anambra states. The bill, which seeks to reduce the minimum age requirement for elective positions in the country, was first passed by the senate and the house […]
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Dipo Anisulowo, the Chief of Staff to Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, has resigned with immediate effect. Anisulowo made his resignation known in a letter addressed to Fayose, a copy of which Anisulowo released to newsmen. He blamed Governor Fayose’s mission to destroy the PDP as reason for resigning. ” I am at dismay on […]
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The inspector-general of police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, who appeared before the Senate committee on Friday over killings in the country, said anti-grazing law should be put on hold until ranches are established. Although the law which is in effect in Ekiti and Benue states was meant to check clashes between farmers and herdsmen, it has […]
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