ekiti election update

Elections come and go. But the nature and conduct of these elections will continue to attract attention and dominate commentary across the land. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the electoral body, has since announced the winner and the loser of the recently concluded...

Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, the President of Women Arise for Change Initiative, was among the observers, who monitored the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State. In this interview with ADEWALE AJAYI, she speaks on the outcome of the election and vote- buying What is your take on the …...

A former member of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon. Adebayo Morakinyo, told SULAIMAN SALAWUDEEN that that the July 14, 2018 governorship election was the best in the history of the state.... Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2NRJnUJ Get More Nigeria Political News

Saturday night, Kolapo Olusola Eleka the PDP gubernatorial handpicked candidate by Governor Ayodele Fayose lost the election to APC’s Kayode Fayemi. As expected, APC cheers and PDP sobs. It’s a sad commentary on our democracy that both parties paid voters pittance to buy their votes. However...

The outcome of the Ekiti governorship election has kindled passion in Rivers State with both sides of the political divide drawing permutations on the consequences of the election on the aspiration of the various political tendencies in the state....... Read more via Vanguard News –...

The lawmaker representing Ogun East senatorial district at the National Assembly, Senator Buruji Kashamu, has blamed the defeat of the People’s Democratic … Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2NCqeG4 Get More Nigeria Political News

A Senator representing Ogun East senatorial district at the National Assembly, Senator Buruji Kashamu, has blamed the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded governorship election in Ekiti State on what he termed the arrogance of the state governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose...

“Olusola is just a victim of the nemesis that eventually caught up with Fayose because instead of the governor to listen to voice of reason and prophetic utterances we told him, he branded us fake prophet but now he has seen it,” Primate Ayodele said. Wole … Read more via – The Sun News –...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mallam Yusuf Ali, said the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in last Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, has asked him to lead his legal team to challenge the victory of Governor-elect, Dr. Kayode … Read more via Punch...

The Ekiti State Police Command yesterday said it has arrested 27 persons for electoral related offences in the July 14 governorship election in the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Bello Ahmed, said culprits were.... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper –...

The Police in Ekiti say they arrested 27 persons for election-related offences concerning the July 14 governorship election in the state. The Commissioner of Police, Bello Ahmed, said the suspects were arrested a day to the election and also on the day of the … Read more via Punch...

The leadership of the major opposition party in Nigeria, PDP is working assiduously to recover the alleged mandate of Professor Eleka.... Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2uMXz9z Get More Nigeria Political News

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has said that it has what it called “facts” on how the last Saturday’s governorship election was allegedly rigged in Ekiti State for the APC candidate, Kayode Fayemi. The party’s National Working Committee met in Abuja on Tuesday, where...

Members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly have condemned and rejected the result of last Saturday governorship election as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission. The assembly also adjourned sitting till October 8, 2018, due to alleged harassment of members by security...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to prosecute those behind alleged vote-buying in the just concluded elections in Ekiti State. The group in an open letter … Read more via Channels Television –...

Former House of Representatives member and Director General of Kayode Fayemi Campaign Council, Opeyemi Bamidele, who on June 1, sustained gunshot wounds from.... Read more via Ladun Liadi's Blog – https://ift.tt/2LrpOBP Get More Nigeria Metro News

Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has reacted to Governor Ayodele Fayose’s plan to protest the.... Read more via Naijaloaded – https://ift.tt/2Lpg5vE Get More Nigeria Political News

The outgoing governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has cried out to the traditional ruler of Ado Ekiti, the Ewi of Ado, complaining that the government house had.... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2JwdBtJ Get More Nigeria Political News

…Alleges over 300 members of PDP, top aides are still clamped in detention by security agents “I have been under House Arrest in Govt. office”, he decries Governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose on.... Read more via – The Sun Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2LozFM0 Get More Nigeria Political News

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Tuesday made his first public appearance since his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, lost the Saturday’s governorship election. Fayose, who went to the palace of the.... Read more via Naijaloaded – https://ift.tt/2utWtQC Get More Nigeria...