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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has begin distribution of electoral materials for tomorrow's governorship elections in Ondo state. Photo credit: Punch

The Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the PDP has called for the postponement of the upcoming governorship elections in Ondo state. Spokesman of the faction's caretaker committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said the call for poll shift became necessary due to a pending suit regarding the candidature of...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday rallied support for Rotimi Akeredolu, APC's candidate for the upcoming governorship elections in Ondo state. Speaking at a meeting with stakeholders, Buhari said APC's unity is crucial for the outcome of next Saturday’s election. “I am very pleased that...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Akure Airport amidst tight security for the All Progressives Congress, APC, campaign rally for the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State. He arrived the airport at exactly 10:09 a.m. and was received by Governor Olusegun Mimiko. Also...

The former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, yesterday gave reasons for his absence at the flag-off rally of the party’s governorship candidate in Ondo State, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, saying he was absent at the event on health ground. Akande, who said...

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) on Monday met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State house. Akerdolu who was led by Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau, who doubled as the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State said on Saturday that President Muhammad Buhari would launch the campaign rally of its governorship candidate, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu. In a statement signed by the party’s State Publicity Secretary, Omo’ba Abayomi Adesanya, said the launch of the...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State on Saturday revealed two ‘unholy’ means at which Governor Olusegun Mimiko is taking to disrupt activities in Ondo State. The party said the planned actions was over the replacement of the Governor’s stooge, Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) with that of...

The Ondo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Olusegun Agbaje, has stated the reason INEC chose to go with Jimoh Ibrahim as PDP's governorship candidate in the upcoming Ondo elections despite a court order recognizing Eyitayo Jegede as the authentic candidate. INEC Declares Jimoh Ibrahim PDP...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared Jimoh Ibrahim as the authentic candidate of the PDP for the upcoming governorship election in the state. INEC’s decision is in apparent obedience to a ruling by a Federal High Court in Abuja which ordered that Mr. Ibrahim be...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has forwarded the name of Prince John Ola Mafo to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the running mate to Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) in the November 26, 2016 governorship election. This is in line with the directive of INEC that...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State has stated that the defection of a former governorship aspirant of the party, Chief Olusola Oke to Alliance for Democracy, AD, will not affect the chances of the party in the November 26 gubernatorial poll. The party made this known through...

The campaign office of a factional gubernatorial candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 26 Governorship election in Ondo State, Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim (CFR), was on Saturday night, attacked and vandalized by unknown hoodlums in Akure, the state capital. The newly...

The runner up in the just concluded governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Mr. Segun Abraham sunday has congratulated the winner, Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN. In a congratulatory message, he promised to work for the victory of the party in the...

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, says he has no doubt that the APC would defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the governorship poll. Akeredolu, who was a former President of the Nigerian...

Oluwarotimi Oduanayo Akeredolu, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), would be contesting the governorship election in Ondo state. In the previous election, he ran on the platform of the then Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), and came next to Olusegun Mimiko, the incumbent governor. In November...

Rotimi Akeredolu has shocked the leader of the All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to emerged the governorship candidate of the party in Ondo State following today’s primary election held amidst tight security in the capital of Akure. Akeredolu had in an interview granted to PUNCH on...

Mr Taye Adeuti, on Saturday, emerged as the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for the Nov. 26 governorship election in Ondo State. Adeuti emerged with unanimous voice votes after the second aspirant, Mr Gbenga Ojo, withdrew his candidacy when both men were nominated as aspirants...

Senator Tayo Alasoadura, All Progressives Congress governorship aspirant in Ondo State, said the party could lose the forth coming governorship election if the party leadership did not resolve the crisis in the state chapter. Alasoadura, representing Ondo Central in the Senate, said this in an...

All Progressives Congress gubernatorial candidates in Ondo State are wooing the 3,000 delegates that would vote in the APC primary with N300,000 to N500, 000 each, scheduled for August 31, 2016. According to a source who confided in PUNCH, said that each of the aspirants had already spent...