The Ondo State Commissioner for Information, Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, has disclosed that President Bola Tinubu, in his intervention in the political crisis in the state, requested a signed resignation letter from the Deputy Governor of the state, Lucky Aiyedatiwa. Aiyedatiwa yesterday presided over the state’s executive council meeting after ...
•Senate The Senate has asked the federal government to withhold statutory allocations to any local government councils not democratically elected. The upper chamber unanimously resolved that this move would deter the dictatorial tendencies of any state governor, reports Channels TV. This resolution comes against the backdrop of a motion moved ...
•Akeredolu An Ondo State High Court, sitting in Akure, has stopped Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu from inaugurating newly appointed members of the interim management committee for the 18 local government areas and the 33 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs). The appointed Interim Management Committee for the council and the LCDAs have been ...
•Shaibu and Obaseki The political impasse in Edo State took another turn yesterday when Governor Godwin Obaseki said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will determine his deputy Philip Shaibu’s fate following the latter’s governorship ambition. Shaibu on Monday threw himself into the race for Dennis Osadebay House, ending months of speculation...
•Ladi Adebutu Days after losing at the appeal court, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ogun State, Ladi Adebutu, insists his party won the March 18 poll with over 50,000 votes. Governor Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared winner of the poll after polling 276,298. Adebutu scored 262,383 wh...
•Hyacinth Alia The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), in Benue state has condemned the appointment of Caretaker Committees for 23 Local Government Council by Governor Hyacinth Alia saying it was in total disregard of a subsisting court order restraining the government from doing so. The party said Governor Alia’s constitution of caretaker commit...
A fresh leadership crisis has hit the Bauchi State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress as the State Working Committee of the party on today passed a vote of confidence on the embattled chairman, Babayo Aliyu Misau. 27 out of the 37 members of State Working Committee passed the vote of no confidence at […]
The Ondo State House of Assembly and its Speaker has withdrawn its appeal filed before the Court of Appeal, Abuja, against the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which stopped the planned impeachment of the Ondo State deputy governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa. The Ondo State House of Assembly and its Speaker had challenged the jurisdiction [&hel...
•David Ombugadu and Abdullahi Sule The protesting women, youths and other residents of Nasarawa State have vowed to continue with their demonstrations until justice is served to those who voted for the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, David Ombugadu, during the March 18, 2023 election in the state. The All Progressives Congress...
•Akeredolu and Aiyedatiwa Peace may be returning to the Ondo State Executive Council as it holds its meeting today in Akure, the state capital, after three months. Deputy Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa will preside over the meeting, which is the first since the warring camps endorsed a peace deal at a reconciliation meeting hosted in Abuja [&hellip...

