Aregbesola enjoined the people of the state to ignore threats of militarisation and intimidation by security agencies and come out en mass to vote and stay by their votes until after counting and announcement of results
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The International Republican Institute, organisers of the debate on the Osun State Broadcasting Corporation, had invited the candidates for what it called Manifestoes Hour
This was just as the governor said Sambo had impugned on the integrity of the judiciary by referring to the judgment of the Election Petitions Appeal Tribunal that restored the mandate of Aregbesola after the 2007 governorship poll as verdict through “the back door
There is a form they called Omo Ilu Foundation form, which they have been throwing about to deceive people to collect their voters identification numbers
The governor stated this at the palace of the Timi of Ede, Oba Munirudeen Adesola Lawal, during a political campaign to Ede Federal Constituency on Tuesday
The mammoth crowd, armed with brooms, began the sweeping from the palace to the town hall and later to the streets of the town
The statement was issued in reaction to stories in a section of the media (not The Eagle Online), that Akeju had been removed by INEC
Addressing the press on behalf of the council, the Commissioner, Osun State Police Command, Ibrahim Maishanu, described as false a report in the media of an alleged bomb blast in Ile-Ife on Tuesday, thereby insinuating that the Boko Haram terror group had made incursion into the South West state
The group in a statement in Osogbo, Osun State on Sunday, said that the redeployment of Akeju would guarantee free and fair conduct of the governorship election holding in the state on August 9
In a country where people have become disillusioned and sceptical of their governments and politicians, it is remarkable to find a few who are still loved and openly embraced by their people
He said a true democrat must be ready to embrace defeat, just as he will be quick to embrace victory in all genuine democratic contests
I can’t but marvel at the uncanny similarity between our current political system and the corrupt state of politics in Britain some 360 odd years ago
The rallies, expected to take the governor to all nooks of the state, are meant to showcase the goodies that the journey of the last three and a half years have brought to the people. Each campaign is expected to bring up messages of hopes as other parts of the state get ready to receive the campaigns train
The vice chancellor said the university management deemed it necessary to review charges upward so as to maintain its position as a foremost institution
Baruwa was arraigned over his involvement in the death of Kehinde Awoyedo, who was shot dead in Ilesa
The royal father said he decided to support Aregbesola because of the projects executed by his administration in Ile-Ife and the state in less than three years
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Budget and Economic Planning, Bade Adeshina, in a statement on Tuesday, said: “Inasmuch as a budget is the plan and guide for all agencies of government to deliver the dividends of democracy as well as the equal distribution of wealth for the masses, those in charge of the budget implementation should follow the approved guidelines to the letter
Aregbesola made this known during a high level technical meeting of the Home Grown School Feeding Programme in Abuja on Monday
The warning to Adesiyan came on the heels of the trouble he allegedly caused during the April 3, 2014 Peoples Democratic Party primaries at the Ideal Nest Hotel in Osogbo, the Osun State capital
The police prosecutor, ASP Wilson Mereti, had earlier told the court that the accused committed offence on April 4 at an uncompleted building opposite St. Peter’s Primary School at Isona, Ilesa