Prof. Ajibola Akanbi, the Returning Officer, Independent National Electoral Commission, made the announcement.
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The son of a prominent indigene of Offa, Kwara State, Chief Josiah Olawoyin, made the declaration over the weekend.
Many communities in Kwara South Senatorial District have been thrown into prolonged power outage for five days running.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described as fake, the social media report that he voted manually at his Polling Unit 006 in Oro, Irepodun Local Government in Kwara South, after the card reader failed to authenticate him.
The arrest of the candidate was contained in a statement made available to The Eagle Online by the PDP in the wee hours of Friday
An applicant, Samson Adeosun, was killed while several others suffered varying degrees of injury when some gunmen attacked the campaign train of the Kwara South Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Lola Ashiru, in Ojoku.
The All Progressives Congress has petitioned security agencies over the alleged attack on Lola Ashiru, its Senatorial Candidate for Kwara South.
The All Progressives Congress has petitioned security agencies over what it termed the gruesome attack on the party’s Kwara South Senatorial District candidate, Hon. Lola Ashiru, allegedly by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim.
No fewer that two people were killed with three missing and many injured in an attack on the candidate of the All Progressives Congress candidate for Kwara South Senatorial District, Lola Ashiru, on Tuesday.
The attack was carried out on Tuesday night
This was discovered by The Eagle Online on Thursday during a search to know the status of the candidate for Kwara South Senatorial District
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has disowned campaign posters circulating in parts of the state promoting him as the Kwara South Senatorial District candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara has disowned campaign posters circulating in parts of the state promoting him as the Kwara South Senatorial Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Kwara, Malam Athairu Madami, has declared that the Independent National Electoral Commission did not make any mistake in listing Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed as PDP candidate for Kwara South Senatorial district election.
The Peoples Democratic Party had written the INEC substituting Ahmed’s name with those of the incumbent, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim
This followed the release of the final list of candidates for the February 16, 2019 national elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday
The All Progressives Congress in Kwara South Senatorial District on Saturday offered inter-religious prayers for the repose of the soul of five of its members who died in a ghastly auto accident, recently.
There had been speculations that the leader of his party and President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, had ordered the forfeiture of the ticket by Ahmed following the loss of the bye election into the Ekiti/Isin/Irepodun/Oke-Ero Federal Constituency, from where he hails.
The Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, has raised the alarm over the influx of suspected political thugs into the state as the by-election for Ekiti, Irepodun and Isin Federal Constituency approaches.
This was contained in a statement by the State Government