ADO EKITI — Ekiti state governorship aspirant, Opeyemi Bamidele, has said there was no primary election for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. The aspirant who is also a serving senator called for the cancellation of the exercise. He made this request in a statement released on Sunday. He alleged that the primary election committee was made up of loyalists of Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti governor. Bamidele asserted that the election was a  fraudulent...

LAGOS — APC governorship candidate, Biodun Oyebanji, has said Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti state governor, was uninvolved in his emergence as the standard-bearer of the party in the state. He said this on Friday while speaking with Arise TV. Oyebanji emerged as APC’s governorship candidate after polling 101,703 votes in the primary election conducted on Saturday. Prior to the election, seven aspirants had withdrawn from the race, alleging that the primary election committee was made up...

LAGOS — Chief Franklin Ebere-Njoku, Southeast Zonal Coordinator, Tinubu Support Organisation (TSO) has expressed confidence in the ability of Chief Bola Tinubu to transit power to youths if elected the nation’s president. Ebere-Njoku, also a national executive member of the Buhari Campaign Organisation (BCO) said this on Friday in Abuja during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). NAN reports that Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State and a chieftain of ruling...

LAGOS — Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos has opened up on his second-term ambition in 2023. Speaking on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ on Friday, Sanwo-Olu said that he will have to consult Lagosians before he takes a decision on whether to contest for a second term in office in the 2023 general elections or not. On Thursday, the governor had said that the former governor of the state and national chairman of the ruling All...

ABEOKUTA — Ahead of the 2023 general elections, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday restated his commitment to stay off the party politics, saying nothing can make his return to party politics. Addressing newsmen shortly after a closed-door meeting with members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Abeokuta, Obasanjo stated that he was contented to remain as an elder statesman. He explained that in spite of his...