Tag: Ekiti election
Ekiti governor-elect Oyebanji on victory parade, issues statement [Photos]
Hours before the parade, Oyebanji was formally presented a copy of the result sheet of the governorship election by Governor…
No poll fraud in Ekiti: INEC results correct, says Yiaga Africa
Nwagwu said that Yiaga Africa deployed 500 observers in pairs to a representative random sample of 250 polling units and…
How Oyebanji beat them all: Ekiti poll results at a glance
In all, Oyebanji has votes, more than the combined votes of his two major rivals, Oni and Kolawole.
Ekiti election: INEC uploads all results, collation begins
As at 10pm on Saturday, only results from seven polling units out of 2445 have not been submitted.
Ekiti election: APC candidate Oyebanji gallops to decisive victory [Updated]
Oyebanji seems to have defied pre-poll predictions of a close race among the three leading candidates, who included PDP's Bisi…
INEC to Tribunal: Ekiti election free, fair
A Deputy Director with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Sylvester Aigbogun, on Tuesday told the Ekiti Governorship Election Petition…
PDP collation officer, 11 others allege fraud in Ekiti election
The Ekiti State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal was told on Friday that the July 14 election was full of irregularities,…
Ekiti election: INEC commends security agencies
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday in Benin commended security agencies over their role in the recently concluded…
Ekiti election: INEC warns against unauthorised results
The Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) has warned social media writers and bloggers to stop publishing unauthorised results about the Ekiti…
PDP candidate Olusola Eleka cries foul in Ekiti
Professor Kolapo Olusola Eleka, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party is already crying foul about Saturday election outcome,…
Ekiti election: Fayose bribes voters with N4,000 each
Some voters in Ekiti state on Friday trooped to Government House in Okesa area Ado Ekiti, the capital to collect…
Why I want to rule Ekiti again – Fayemi
Dr Kayode Fayemi, All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Saturday election in Ekiti, on Tuesday said he wanted to…
Ekiti Guber Election: PDP confident Eleka’s candidature will lead to victory
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed optimism of winning July 14 governorship election in Ekiti, with the emergence of…
Ekiti Election: Bamidele denies stepping down from governorship race
Former federal lawmaker, Opeyemi Bamidele denied rumours making the rounds on social media that he has already concluded plans to…
Go To Court, SaharaReporters Dares Obanikoro
Online news portal, SaharaReporters, has challenged former Minister of State for Defence and ministerial nominee, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, to go…
How Military Aided Fayose’s Victory In Ekiti —Captain Koli
Eromosele Ebhomele Captain Sagir Koli, the Nigerian Army officer at the centre of a leaked audio recording of a meeting…
Osun election more successful than Ekiti – INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Sunday that facts available showed that the Osun Governorship election was better…
My defeat in Ekiti not due to stomach infrastructure – Fayemi
Nkrumah Bankong-Obi Ekiti state governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has debunked insinuations that he lost the 21 June governorship election because…
We conceded Ekiti election to avoid violence – Oyegun
Chief John Oyegun, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said the party conceded victory to the PDP in…
Ekiti Election badly skewed in favour of PDP, says APC
Full text of the Communique issued at the end of the inaugural meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of…
Fayose’s victory frightening to democracy, says Fashola
Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has described Ayodele Fayose’s victory at the last weekend governorship election in…
Fayemi, An Unusual Leader, Says Fayose
Ekiti State governor-elect, Ayodele Fayose, has described the incumbent governor of the state, Dr Kayode Fayemi as an unusual Nigerian…
IG assures Nigerians of peaceful election in Osun
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar has assured Nigerians of a peaceful election in Osun state next month. The IG…
Jonathan urges PDP snatch Lagos, Osun, others
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Basking in the euphoria of the victory of the Peoples Democratic Party in Saturday’s Ekiti State gubernatorial election,…
Fayemi congratulates governor-elect, Fayose
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti on Sunday congratulated Ayo Fayose, the PDP candidate in Saturday’s governorship election. Fayemi, who congratulated…
PDP criticises APC for condemning heavy security in Ekiti
The PDP on Saturday described as inciting, the condemnation of heavy security presence in Ekiti by the leadership of the…
Ekiti Polls: Amaechi, Oshiomhole, others should sue military, says Soyinka
Eromosele Ebhomele Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka on Saturday asked all governors under the All Progressives Congress, APC, who were…
#EkitiDecides: In Pictures Gov. Fayemi, Fayose, others vote
Photos by Idowu Ogunleye and Emmanuel Osodi/ Ekiti
Security operatives arrest 36 APC members, journalists in Ekiti
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted Nigerians and the international community to the massive clampdown on its party’s leaders…
#EkitiDecides: 50 Mobile Policemen arrest journalists
Mobile policemen have arrested two journalists Jadesola Ajibola of Inspiration FM and Oyetunji Ojo of Osun State Broadcasting Corporation in…