The Osun State chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on Friday stated that due process was followed in the emergence of its governorship flag bearer, Kehinde Atanda.
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Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, the Secretary to Osun State Government, has announced his withdrawal from the primaries of All Progressives Congress scheduled for Friday at the party’s headquarters in Osogbo.
The group, in a statement signed by two of their leaders, Muftau Adegoke and Rasheed Adegbenro, and made available to newsmen in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Thursday, said they were taken aback by a report linking Adeleke to certificate scandals.
Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, chairman of the committee, who addressed the aspirants at the party’s Secretariat in Osogbo, urged them to eschew violence and bitterness during the exercise.
One of the governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Kunle Adegoke, has stated that there is a plot by the Osun state government to doctor the primary in favour of “the state anointed aspirant”, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola.
The postponement of the primaries was contained in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, on Thursday.
Ahead of the September 22 governorship election in Osun, the police on Wednesday warned political parties against flouting the Electoral Act.
Members of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Osun on Wednesday elected Munirudeen Atanda as their candidate for the September 22 governorship election.
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Prince Abayomi Adesanya, on Wednesday lauded the decision of the party to adopt the direct primary system to pick its governorship candidate in Osun on July 19.
“When the history of this moment is written, those looking back on this decision will say that it was an inevitable natural consequence of party evolution,” he said.
He stated this on Monday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen after a closed door meeting with members of the party’s National Working Committee.
We have monitored with bated breath the activities of certain individuals within our party frenetically canvassing for the adoption of direct primaries in the nomination of APC candidate for the gubernatorial election coming up on the 19th day of July, 2018. We must directly point out that the agitation is nothing but an effort towards imposing the preferred aspirant of certain leaders of the party and some persons in the government of Osun
In a letter dated July 12, 2018 and signed by two of applicants to the suit filed at the Osun State High Court, Alhaji Rasheed Mayowa and Chief Azeez Alakinde-Ismaila, and addressed to the INEC National Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the party explained that all the congresses done by the Senator Iyiola Omisore’s group were against court orders.
The training which is taking place in Ibadan, Oyo state has the top officials and key staff of Osun Health Insurance Scheme and Abia State Social Health insurance Agency in attendance.
The new Commissioner of the Commission in Osun State, Ganiyu Olatoye Aminu, disclosed this in Osogbo when he visited the Chief Judge of Osun State, Justice Oyebola Adepele Ojo, at the Osun State High Court.
Aregbesola, in a statement by his media aide, Sola Fasure, on Friday in Osogbo said late Ciroma was an astute politician and one of the respectable political voices in the country.
OSCAN in a statement made available to journalists on Thursday in Osogbo and signed by its Chairman, Very Rev (Father) Michael Okodua; the Secretary, Overseer Cornelius Ojo; and the Chairman, Strategic Committee, Rev. Jacob Asani, the Christian body also cautioned against bribery taking to subvert the will of the people.
The event holds on July 7, 2018.
Justice Maurine Adaobi Onyetenu gave the order on Wednesday based on the suit filed Kanmi Ajibola and Sulaiman Adeniyi.
Ishola re-affirmed that whatever congress anyone has held in the name of SDP in Osun State was illegal and an affront to the court, while hoping that the judiciary will firmly hold on to the rule of law.