President Bola Tinubu, who contested the election under the APC platform, emerged the winner.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission conducted the governorship poll on Saturday across the nation.
Speaking at a town hall meeting with Muslim leaders from South West in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, the APC standard bearer also commended religious leaders in the country for their continued prayers and sermons, which he noted, had contributed to unity and peaceful coexistence.
Special Assistant (Print Media) to the Oyo State governor, Moses Alao, gave this warning on Monday, urging Folarin to bear the cross of his “desperate and evil political scheming,” which he said, has brought trouble to the APC.
Tinubu sent his condolences in a statement issued by signed by Tunde Rahman of his Media Office
Senator Folarin is representing Oyo Central senatorial district.
Governor Makinde, while addressing the widows, family and political associates of the late former governor, at his Opadoyin Lodge residence, Randa area, in Ogbomoso, said that the visit was to officially condole with the family over the demise of someone he described as leader, brother, mentor and grassroots man.
Folarin, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Local Content, in a condolence message he personally signed, extolled the late oba’s extraordinary and committed leadership role to his people during his 48 years reign as the Soun of Ogbomoso.
SystemSpecs’ Director, Deremi Atanda, stated this at the 10th Practical Nigerian Content Conference hosted by the National Content Development and Management Board (NCDMB) virtually and on site in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state.
Folarin made the assertion in a lecture entitled: “The Challenges of Governance and Security in Nigeria” at the 2021 Lecture of University of Ibadan Alumni Association and Distinguished Alumnus Award in Ibadan.
The resolution was reached after a crucial meeting with the Seven-man Ward Congress Committee of the APC.
Obasanjo said this on Thursday while delivering the keynote address at the book launch in honour of the “Garrison Commander of South West politics” at the Trenchard Hall of the University of Ibadan, attended by many dignitaries.
This is contained in a statement by his media aide, Yekeen Olaniyi on Sunday, in Ibadan.
The incident was confirmed by Folarin during a radio programme monitored on Saturday in Ibadan.
This was contained in a statement by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Diran Odeyemi
This was made known through a statement issued in Ibadan on Wednesday by the state Publicity Secretary of the APC, Olawale Sadare
He didn’t stop there. Among other porous and poorly-strewn together allegations, Akala also falsely accused Senator Folarin of possessing fake academic qualifications, being administratively empty and violence-prone. In our reckoning, this is political blackmail taken too far
According to the ACN, Folarin has several explanations to offer over his alleged unholy alliance with discredited kingpins of the National Union of road Transport workers in the state, who are said to be boasting that they would help him become the Oyo State governor in 2015 through violence on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party