I have up until this moment resisted the temptation to comment on the just concluded gubernatorial election in Ekiti State for the simple reason that the more the facts of the process emerged, the more confusing they seemed. About a week later, certain things have however become clear which deserve our attention.
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Fayose said this in response to the warning issued by Fayemi over plans by the governor to embark on employments meant to cripple the incoming administration.
A statement by the Director, Wole Olujobi, cautioned the management of the college to stay clear of the contrived sabotage mission by Fayose to cripple the administration of Fayemi from the outset.
Three Civil Society Organisations on Monday declared the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti as free, fair and credible, contrary to the claims in some quarters.
Kashamu said this in an interview with newsmen over the weekend.
At a press conference in Lagos on Friday, addressed by the observers led by Taiwo Adeleye, where the group presented preliminary reports, the group said the election was associated with hitches but not enough to invalidate the victory of APC at the poll.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Gabriel Idunseri, the youths’ leader stated this in a statement he signed and made available to newsmen in Benin-City on Friday.
Fayose said it is obvious that he will be consumed in his vendetta mission and rather than grandstanding, Fayemi should first seek legitimacy for his stolen mandate.
The Ekiti Chief Judge, Justice Ayo Daramola, on Thursday granted pardon to 44 inmates of the Ado-Ekiti Federal Prisons.
PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, said this when he received a delegation of a Joint International Election Observation Mission fielded by two main American international civil agencies, the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute.
According to a press statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, Fayose said the police have kept a permanent surveillance over the Government House.
The outgoing Governor of Ekiti State, Peter Ayodele Fayose, is the poster boy of everything wrong with Nigerian politics. To that end, like President Muhammadu Buhari, I should be celebrating the defeat of Fayose’s candidate Olusola Eleka
The Media Office of the Ekiti State Governor-Elect, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has dismissed the report of the observer groups slated for publication on Wednesday as a concoction fabricated and facilitated by the Ekiti State Government to discredit the July 14, 2018 election that returned Fayemi as the winner.
“When Fayose won in 2014, the whole of Ekiti erupted with joy. In 2018 the APC ‘won’ and all the streets of Ekiti are looking so gloomy. The people are sad because their will has been truncated.” – Adeolu Daramola.
Its National Commissioner and chairman, Legal Services Committee, May Agbamuche-Mbu, gave the commendation at the side line of training for legal officers of the commission, organised by European Union Centre for Electoral Support.
The observes insisted that Saturday’s election, which saw the emergence of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, as Governor-elect, falls short of global best practices and electoral standards.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, stated this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja.
A member of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Husain Kangiwa, says the All Progressives Congress victory in Saturday’s Ekiti governorship election is a testimony of the party’s popularity in the country.
In a statement on Monday night, spokesman of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren, said the “purported tweet does not represent the views of the EFCC”.
Salam, who gave the commendation in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Minna, said that the deployment of security personnel in the exercise contributed, greatly, to the safety of voters.