These punishments were the recommendations of the Major General Adeniyi Oyebade-led Nigerian Army Board of Inquiry on the Review of Allegations of Unprofessional Conducts By Some Officers and Soldiers During the 2015 Elections
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He said in the statement: “I am constrained to speak again on the judgement of the Osun State Election Petition Tribunal again due to the deliberate mischievous twist being given my initial reaction to the tribunal’s pronouncement and the political activities preceding and succeeding it, by the elements of the ruling party in the state
At Ward 4, Unit 5 and Ward 5 Unit 11 in Jolayemi area of the capital and Ataoja Palace in Osogbo, voting ended at about 3.12pm and collation of results commenced
The instruction came after the Independent National Electoral Commission had concluded issuance of accreditation tags to news men for the coverage of the exercise
“The system is strict and it has been conditioned in a way that it is almost impossible for the distribution of ballot papers to be tampered with,” Agbaje said
Justice A. Abdulkareem, while granting the application of the leadership of the APC in suit number HIF/M.32/2014 against the inspector General of Police, Assistant Inspector General in charge of Zone XI, Director General of the Department of State Service, the Commissioner of Police of the Osun State Command and the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, affirmed that there is urgent need to grant the prayer of the applicants, having carefully examined the evidence attached to the application
Aregebsola and candidate of the APC, the party in power in the state said two officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission were arrested in Obokun Local Government Area of the state attempting to divert sensitive election materials
The NBA EWG is one of the 29 domestic and international observers accredited by the Independent National Electoral Commission to observe today’s election
A statement entitled: “In Spite of Mr President’s Assurances, We Still Have Shenanigans,” and signed by the Chairman of the party, Elder Adelowo Adebiyi, and the Director of Publicity, Barrister Kunle Oyatomi, said the bullion van was parked at the PDP secretariat until the wee hours of Thursday before it was taken into an unknown destination
“We have paid a lot of attention to the training of our staff and ad hoc staff to use and we will protect members of the National Youth Service Corps we normally use
The students, under the aegis of Youths and Students Coalition for the Re-election of Aregbesola, took to the Olaiya Junction in the heart of the state capital and marched to Ogo-Oluwa axis of Osogbo, before they converged at Fakunle area to address members
He said the Police and other security and law enforcement agencies will combine forces to ensure that law-abiding citizens of Osun State feel free and safe to cast their votes without any form of intimidation or harassment
In a carnival like manner, youths from the 30 local government areas and the area offices of the state snaked through Okefia-Olaiya-Fagbeesa-Station Road and Gbeemu-Oluode Road to Orita-Elelede Road
The President gave the warning at the campaign grand finale of Senator Iyiola Omisore, the state’s governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, in Osogbo on Saturday
In a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the APC said under the plan, some INEC IT staff have allegedly handed over the entire electoral register for the state to a Special Assistant to a top PDP national official, with a view to manipulating it to disenfranchise many voters
This was contained in a timetable made available to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh