The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday in Abuja lost its bid to wrestle power from the APC-government of Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti State following the judgment of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which pronounced the governor as duly elected. The three-man panel, in a unanimous judgement that lasted almost five hours, dismissed the PDP […]
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The Ekiti State Governor-elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, yesterday, promised that his government would not fail the people of the state. He said that his administration, has no reason to fail the people of the state considering the experience he had garnered as a former Governor of the State, which he said gave him deep knowledge […]
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BY applauding and approving what he described as “a charade that passed for the governorship election in Ekiti State last Saturday,” Governor Ayodele Fayose, yesterday said President Muhammadu Buhari has shown that he lacks democratic credentials. Reacting to a statement by President Buhari’s Media Aide, Mallam Garba Shehu, entitled: “Fayose: In the end, a high-powered […]
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The All Progressives Congress, (APC) candidate in the Ekiti governorship election, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has won the governorship election according to the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission in majority of the 16 local councils in the state. Fayemi, though, has not been declared the winner by the INEC yet which is as […]
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The All Progressives Congress candidate in the Ekiti State governorship election, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has won the poll held on Saturday. From the results of the 16 local government areas in the state, Fayemi defeated his closest rival, Prof. Kolapo Olusola of the Peoples Democratic Party, in 12 LGAs. Fayemi polled 197,459 while Olusola scored […]
Read More The two leading candidates in the election were yesterday locked in a war of words over an alleged movement of ₦18 billion into the state for the election. Prof. Kolapo Olusola had made the allegation that the money partly sourced from a Northwest state government and $50 million from the $321 million recovered from the […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called for caution over the activities of security agencies deployed in Ekiti ahead of Saturday’s Governorship election. His appeal followed Wednesday’s alleged manhandling of some people, including the Governor of the State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose in Ado-Ekiti, the State capital, allegedly by security operatives. In a statement issued by his […]
Read More Dr Kayode Fayemi, All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Saturday election in Ekiti, on Tuesday said he wanted to rule the state again to reduce poverty among the people. He stated this at APC’s final rally ahead of the election at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday. Fayemi, who was governor of […]
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The former Minister of State (Defence) Musiliu Obanikoro detained by the EFCC has implicated Governor Ayodele Fayose in the probe of the N4.745billion wired to a company by the Office of the National Security Adviser(ONSA). The cash was wired to Sylva Mcnamara, which has been linked to Obanikoro within seven months in 2014, The Nation learnt. […]
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