Tinubu said the APC candidate truly deserved the victory that came “despite the intimidation, harassment and violence unleashed on your numerous supporters and other shenanigans perpetrated by known opposition elements within and outside our party, APC”.
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The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Ogun State on Saturday dismissed the petition filed against Governor Dapo Abiodun’s election in the March 9 governorship poll.
Its National President, Oluwagbemileke Ogunrombi, in a statement in Abuja on Saturday said Abiodun’s mandate was “the will of the people of the Gateway State”.
The defectors, who said that they took the decision in a show of solidarity with Governor Dapo Abiodun, were received by Tunji Egbetokun, the Senior Special Adviser on Political Matters to the governor, in Abeokuta.
The Federal Road Safety Corps said on Thursday that 262 persons died in different road crashes between January and August in Ogun.
A statement issued in Abeokuta by Kunle Somorin, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Dapo Abiodun refuted the claim, saying that the expenditure was made by the immediate past administration.
Some of the respondents hailed the judiciary over the judgment while others expressed their reservations.
Doctors under the aegis of the Association of Resident Doctors in Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu in Ogun, have called off their indefinite strike.
In a statement made available to the media on Sunday and signed by the Publicity Secretary of the Ogun APC Caretaker Committee, Tunde Oladunjoye, the party remarked that the Governor has started on a “strong, steady footing” and urged him not to look back “having put his hand on the plough.”
The Ogun Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps has advised school owners in the state to employ only drivers that are certified by the Corps for their school buses to ensure safety of their pupils on the roads.
An NGO, Nigeria for Justice, has frowned at the attacks on Nigerians in South Africa and called on the Federal Government to cut all ties with the country if the situation persists.
Hundreds of motorists and commuters on Wednesday wasted hours in gridlock on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway following an accident involving two tankers, at Ibafo in Ogun.
The traditional ruler of Iwoye Ketu, Oba Ademola Alaye, said in a statement in Abeokuta that the development was already hampering social and economic activities of the people living in the affected communities.
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God on Sunday, called on Nigerians to support the military and other security agencies with prayers in their task of addressing security challenges in the country.
The Ifo Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps on Monday said a commercial motorcyclist was knocked down by a Toyota Corolla car at Alakuko Road, Opposite Hafilak Hotel, Lagos.
The committee led by its chairman, Chief Yemi Sanusi and other executives, party chieftains and security operatives, arrived the secretariat around 10.am, and headed straight to the offices within the complex.
Born on May 19, 1930, late Mrs. Fasehun, who hailed from Ijebu-Ife in Ogun State, attended Methodist High School, CMS, Lagos. Married to Chief Olabanji Fasehun in 1948 and after her first son, Chief Olufemi Fasehun, she proceeded to England where she tried her hands at Nursing Aid and Fashion Design before returning to Lagos, after staying in England for about three years.
The empowerment programme, which is part of the seven-day coronation anniversary that is expected to hold at the three old Igbein settlements of Odo Igbein, Iboto Igbein and Orile Igbein on August 27, 2019, will be preceded by a press conference, homage paying and royal procession, with Oba Makinde on a horse.
The Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps in Ogun said five persons died in road traffic accident in the state between August 8 and August 20, while 36 others sustained injuries.
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, on Wednesday chided the All Progressives Congress-led federal government over “unfulfiled promises”.