Browsing: Rotimi Akeredolu

Tinubu, in a statement by his Media Office, said this while reacting to the outcome of the party’s governorship primary for Ondo State

And just like most of you, I was disappointed at the inexplicably unexpected and unjustifiable move by our party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, to have disregarded this informed stance of the NWC that favoured annulment of that fraud-ridden primary, moving ahead to submit a name to the Independent National Electoral Commission

‘Let it be known that we are not deterred by the action of the National Working Committee and the undemocratic behaviour of the National Chairman, we are encouraged by the genuine desire of the people of Ondo State for a change that will free them from the economic captivity of the present administration in Ondo State’

Akeredolu’s name was submitted to INEC by the National Organising Secretary of the APC, Senator Osita Izunaso

However, a statement signed by the Aketi Media Group and made available to journalists on Tuesday said the Election Appeal Panel, which looked into the controversies surrounding the primary election, submitted two conflicting reports and recommendations to the APC National Working Committee

The primary, over which the panel sat, had produced a former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), as the governorship candidate

The Publicity Secretary of the APC, Taiwo Olatunbosun, said in statement on Sunday that Akeredolu’s victory was a consolidation of the rancour-free presidential primaries that produced President Muhammadu Buhari to be followed by Kogi State primaries that produced the late Prince Audu Abubakar

Among those Akeredolu defeated was Dr. Segun Abraham, the preferred candidate of a National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

He said this was why there was the need for him to clarify his statement on the alleged endorsement of candidates by some leaders of the party ahead of the party’s governorship primary for Ondo State on September 3

We are also not afraid to intimate readers with our disinterestedness in partisan politics as understood in our clime. These facts, we make bold to assert, place us at a very vantage position to comment freely on the sterling qualities of this quintessential gentleman of the Bar

The list was submitted to Saraki by the Chief of Staff to the President, Alhaji Abba Kyari; the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang; and the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (House), Alhaji Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila, at 4.25pm

In the lead judgments, one of which was read by Justice Mary Odili, the Supreme Court said the petitioners lacked grounds for seeking the court’s intervention in pronouncing Mimiko not duly elected

A statement by Idowu Ajanaku, the Director of Media, Publicity and Strategy of the governorship candidate of the ACN in the election, Barrister Rotimi Akeredolu, alleged that Mimiko and the LP have been evading service of the summon from the Tribunal as an antic to buy time, perhaps to make sure the case is not disposed off within the constitutionally accepted period

Mimiko defeated both Oke and Akeredolu in their wards and won in his

And the social media, especially Facebook and the Blackberry Messenger, have been awash with so many allegations, from the sublime to the ridiculous