Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the last governorship election, in Edo State, has appealed to the winner of the election, Governor Godwin Obaseki to return to the APC. Ize-Iyamu said this in a television broadcast on Wednesday night. “We are going to talk to everybody. We are going to bring everybody back. I want to salute my brother, the governor. I would like to appeal to him to return to the party. In every family, we have a disagreement,” he said. The APC candidate said he does not want the governor, whom he described…
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Immediate past National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, has finally spoken about Governor Godwin Obaseki’s victory at the just-concluded governorship election. YemieFash online recalls that Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had defeated Osagie Ize-Iyamu, his APC rival, in the election. Oshiomhole had campaigned vigorously for Ize-Iyamu whose loss some people attributed to his influence in the campaign of the APC candidate.Reacting, Oshiomhole in a viral video released on Wednesday, expressed gratitude to the people of Edo State. Oshiomhole, who stated that in life you win some and lose…
Barely three weeks to the Ondo State Governorship election, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state has written to President Muhammadu Buhari accusing the security agencies of culpability in the unending violence allegedly perpetrated by supporters of the ruling All progressive Congress, APC, ahead of the election. In a similar development, candidate of the Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, in the Ondo governorship election, Agboola Ajayi has raised the alarm over the attack on his campaign secretariat by suspected thugs loyal to the ruling APC in the state. PDP, in an open letter written by its state Publicity Secretary, Kennedy…
About 30 persons, including school children, died yesterday in a petrol tanker explosion that also razed several cars and other properties around Felele area of Lokoja, the Kogi State capital. Among the casualties were five students of Kogi State Polytechnic, three primary school children who were being taken to school by their father and a woman with her two kids. Although eyewitness accounts put the casualty figure at 30, the Federal Road Road Safety Commission, FRSC, said 23 persons died in the explosion. Several persons who also sustained injuries in the explosion are receiving treatment in different hospitals in the…
The Ondo State Government said it had not directed or permitted the reopening of primary and tertiary institutions, public or private, in the state while secondary schools have been permitted to open for only Senior Secondary School 3 and Junior Secondary School Class 3. The government said the directive was in line with its objective of strengthening public safety, protecting the lives of residents, and further mitigating the spread of COVID-19. The state Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Covid-19, Professor Adesegun Fatusi, stated this in Akure, the state capital, on Wednesday. According to him, all school authorities – both…
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum has presented a cheque of N20 million naira to the widow of late Colonel D.C Bako who died on Monday after an ambush by Boko Haram on Sunday during a clearance operation. Governor Zulum also reassured Mrs Bako that his earlier pledge to provide a house for the family of the late Colonel Bako would be redeemed. The Governor also made a donation of N2 million each to the families of the other 3 soldiers that also paid the supreme price alongside Colonel Bako during the Sunday’s ambush attack. Governor Zulum made…
The National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that he will speak on the party’s loss in the Edo governorship election at the right time. YemieFash online had reported that the Independent National Electoral Commission had announced that PDP candidate, Governor Godwin Obaseki, polled 307,955 votes to defeat his closest rival and APC candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, who got 223,619 votes. INEC also on Tuesday presented certificates of return to the re-elected governor and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, at INEC office in Aduwawa, Benin City, the state capital. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Tinubu’s spokesperson,…
There is no doubt that the October 10th Governorship election in ONDO state will be a close race between three strong contenders, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, the incumbent Governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Eyitayo Jegede, SAN of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the current Deputy Governor of the state, His Excellency Barr Agboola who is flying the Zenith Labour party ticket. Conscious of the fact that a single vote may be the deciding vote in a close race as ONDO election is turning out to be, the three major contenders are reported to have been…
Agboola Ajayi, deputy governor of Ondo State and candidate of the Zenith Labour Party in the October 10 governorship election, has raised the alarm over the continued destruction of his campaign billboards and attacks on his supporters by suspected political thugs. He spoke after his campaign office was attacked by armed thugs in Idanre Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the thugs numbering over five stormed the office on Tuesday night to unleash mayhem. Gbenga Olayoriju, a security man stationed in the office, was allegedly threatened with death by the armed thugs without any challenge while…
A chietain of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and a serving Commissioner in the board of Ondo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (OSOPADEC), Chief Ilawole Bisi, from Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, has joined the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP). In quick succession, another chieftain of the party, Hon. Ggbadebo Odimayo, a former council boss of Irele Local Government in Ondo State, has resigned his membership of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) for the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) barely 30 minutes interval the ruling APC, lost Hon. Nicholas Akinbiola, who is also a former council boss…