Tag: Osun 2022

Osun 2022: INEC Warns Against Vote Buying, Selling

28Apr

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Osun 2022: INEC Warns Against Vote Buying, Selling

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed that voter education and enlightenment about elections is an essential ingredient for a free, fair and credible election. Professor AbdulGaniy Olayinka Raji, the Osun INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) made this known at the Voter Education Implementation Workshop in Osogbo, on Wednesday. Professor Raji also condemned that act of vote buying and selling, adding that INEC does not condone it. The Osun INEC boss stated that the commission has powers to arrest and prosecute any individual found within the polling station engaging in vote buying and selling. Pointing out that the commission, however, had no powers to arrest anybody doing so outside the voting area, he called on politicians to go out and ...

Osun 2022: INEC Releases Final List Of Gubernatorial Candidates

27Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria, Press Statement

Osun 2022: INEC Releases Final List Of Gubernatorial Candidates

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the final list of candidates eligible to participate in the July 16 gubernatorial election in Osun State. It was earlier reported that three political parties, AA, APGA and ADC were stepped down by INEC for not meeting the guidelines.The candidates by political parties for the July 16, Osun gubernatorial election are:National Rescue Mission (NRM) – Abede Adetona SamuelSocial Democratic Party (SDP) – Omigbodun OyegokeLabor Party (LP) – Oyelekan AkingbadeAction Peoples Party (APP) – Adebayo Adeolu ElishaAllied Peoples Movement (APM)– Awoyemi OluwatayoAfrican Action Congress (AAC)– Awojide Peter SegunPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) – Senator Nurudeen Ademola AdelekeAll Progressives Congress (APC)– Adegboyega OyetolaAccor...

Osun 2022: Court Orders INEC, PDP Not To Recognise Senator Ademola Adeleke As Candidate

12Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Osun 2022: Court Orders INEC, PDP Not To Recognise Senator Ademola Adeleke As Candidate

A High Court, sitting in Ijebu-Jesa, Osun State has ordered the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to recognise Senator Ademola Adeleke as the party candidate for the July 16 governorship election in the state. It also ordered that the governorship primary election be conducted by the 215 wards executive in line with its earlier ruling on the validity of delegates qualified to vote on the exercise. The court presided over by Justice Adeyinka Aderigbigbe had on March 3, 2022, had in an exparte motion brought before it by one Adedokun Ademola and 29 others ruled that only the 215 wards executive, in line with the judgement of another state High Court delivered on November 22, 2021 were qualified to vote in the exercise. Read ...

20Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Oyetola Wins Osun APC Guber Primary

Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State has been declared winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election held on Saturday, February 19, 2022, across the 332 wards of the state. The chairman of the primary election committee and the governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbsulRazaq, announced the result in the early hours of Sunday at the APC Secretariat in Osogbo, the Osun State capital. Returning officers for all the 30 local governments and the area council had announce the results as collated from all the wards in their various local government areas. See Also: Oyetola Waged War Against Me Since Becoming Governor – Aregbesola Oyetola polled 222,169 to defeat his closest rival, the former Secretary to the Osun State Government, Moshood Adeot...

Yoruba Monarchs Move to Resolve Tinubu/ Aregbesola Rift

19Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Yoruba Monarchs Move to Resolve Tinubu/ Aregbesola Rift

Some Yoruba leaders, including traditional rulers, yesterday, began a move to resolve the conflict between the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and former governor of Osun State and Minister for Interior, Rauf Aregbesola. Tinubu, who was governor of Lagos from 1999 to 2003 and Aregbesola who, served under him as Commissioner for Works before going to Osun State to become governor in 2010, has been at loggerheads over the Osun State governorship election scheduled to hold on July 16 2022.The two APC leaders are currently engaging in a war of words over the re-election bid of Governor Gboyega Oyetola. While Tinubu is supporting Oyetola who is his blood brother, Aregbesola, who is the immediate predecessor of the governor, believes that Oyetola d...

18Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Oyetola Waged War Against Me Since Becoming Governor – Aregbesola

Former Governor of the State of Osun and Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Thursday, said his successor, Adegboyega Oyetola, waged war against him after he became governor. Aregbesola spoke in Ikire while addressing a rally held to garner support for his anointed candidate in Saturday’s Osun governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress, Moshood Adeoti. Speaking in the Yoruba language, Aregbesola said he pleaded with Oyetola for about two years not to fight him, adding that his successor rejected his advice which made him call his people and told them to salvage the party. He said, “I begged him for two years, I told him that people must not mock us. I told him, that he was heading towards destruction. I served this state with the whole of my heart, I also...