The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has uploaded over 25 percent of the results from the Osun State governorship election to its Result Viewing (IReV) portal. The uploading began shortly after voting ended at several polling units across the state, following the conclusion of the voting period, reports Saturday Vanguard. INEC ...
Journalists covering the ongoing Osun governorship election were attacked by hoodlums who stormed the polling unit of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, Dr Najeem Salaam, in Ejigbo Local Government Area. The incident occurred at Polling Unit 4, Ward 4, where voting was reportedly disrupted after the hoodlums arrived at the pollin...
•Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State The Osun State governor, Ademola Adeleke, said he was not satisfied with the preliminary report he received on the ongoing governorship election. He complained that BIVAS machines malfunctioned in many parts of the state, saying they were too slow, reports The Nation. He also complained that thugs were d...
A supporter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Esa-Oke in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State, Ayegbo Oluwadele, was yesterday gunned down and another was shot. The incident added to the growing concerns over violence ahead of tomorrow’s governorship election in the state, reports Daily Trust. Oluwadele was said to have been shot...
Sensitive materials for Saturday’s Osun State governorship election have arrived at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Osogbo ahead of their distribution to the various local government areas. The materials arrived at the CBN premises yesterday at about 8:30pm under the supervision of officials of the Independent National Electoral Commissio...
•INEC logo and permanent voter cards (PVCs) The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says over 1.9 million permanent voter cards (PVCs) were collected for the Osun governorship election. In a statement yesterday, INEC’s National Commissioner, Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Mohammed Haruna, said the number was ...
One of the civil society organisations (CSOs), acting as observers in the governorship election in Osun State, Yiaga Africa, has raised concerns over electoral preparedness, neutrality of security agencies and public confidence ahead of the election. Yiaga Africa, while addressing journalists at a pre-election press conference held in Osogbo t...
•The ADC defectors Barely four days to the Osun State governorship election, 11 executives of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Ila Local Government Area have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The defectors were received into the APC at the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Office in Osogbo, reports The Nation. The defection was f...
•Senator Francis Fadahunsi Senator representing Osun East, Francis Fadahunsi, has insisted that a viral video in which he was alleged to have directed his supporters to kill members of the Accord Party and their family members was edited to misrepresent his comment. Fadahunsi spoke yesterday after being interrogated by the police at the Osun S...
•Rauf Aregbesola The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has raised the alarm over alleged plans to arrest its National Secretary, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, ahead of Saturday’s Osun State election. In a statement signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC said it had received “credible reports” of plans to...
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