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Folorunso Engineer Olusegun Oni was a former governor of Ekiti state. He is among 33 governorship aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress who will participate in today’s primaries to pick the party’s candidate for the state’s governorship election. In this interview, Chief …...

Prince Wole Adeyanju is one of the governorship aspirants in Ekiti State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He believes Ekiti needs urgent transformation, but says only a visionary leader could achieve that for the state. Why are you in the race? … Read more via The...

The Correspondent of The Nation Newspapers in Ekiti State, Mr. Odunayo Ogunmola, has accused the Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media to Governor Ayodele Fayose, Mr. Lere Olayinka of posting injurious photograph about him on face book and social media platforms with the...

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has alleged that about N5 billion has been deployed in the state by the ruling All Progressives Congress for its governorship primaries this Saturday. But the APC described the allegation as a figment of Mr. Fayose’s imagination and a … Read more...

Dayo Johnson AHEAD of the Ekiti state governorship election, a Non Governmental Organisation, Patriots for Better Nigeria (PBN) has threatened to challenge Dr Kayode Fayemi’s suitability to contest the election. Fayemi The group said it would mount a judicial challenge to stop the Independent...

Less than three months to the Ekiti State governorship election, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has expressed its determination to produce the next governor by defeating the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led government. The State Secretary of SDP, Oludele Bankole, … Read more via...

Olanipekun Oluwayose, the half brother to Governor Ayo Fayose has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Action Democratic Party. Oluwayose said he was leaving PDP due to the alleged failure of his brother during … Read more via Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read...

Governor Ayodele Fayose Crisis on Saturday rocked the delegates’ congress of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti leading to an attack on a former Chairman of Ikere Local Government, Mr Banji Aluko. Aluko was beaten up by persons suspected to be political thugs over allegation that …...

Governor of Ekiti Ayodele Fayose has said that he is far more experience than the President of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari. Fayose in an interview with Osasu Igbinedion said “My presidential ambition is still alive, so much alive but one step at a time. I want to lead this country...

Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti, has described the third force movement proposed by former president Olusegun Obasanjo as “no force”. The former president had called for a coalition that would wrestle power from the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in...

The Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ekiti State, Prof. Abdulganiyu Raji, has raised the alarm over alleged threat to his life by persons yet unknown. He said he had been receiving strange calls from all manner of people who kept threatening his life, if he failed to do certain things...

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus and the former Senate President, Senator David Mark, yesterday, visited Ekiti State to resolve the crisis rocking the party in the state. The PDP leaders urged the state governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, who is backing...

Former governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, yesterday, disclosed how he was betrayed by many of those he made during his reign as governor of the state after losing a re-election on June 21, 2014. Fayemi claimed that some of those he entrusted with positions during his administration...

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi , has boasted that the All Progressives Congress(APC) will deploy all the governmental advantages it has to wrest power in Ekiti from the Peoples Democratic Party come July 2018 He also threatened that once the PDP was roundly defeated...

Omololu Omotosho is a 33-year-old Nigerian based in the United States of America who has taken the advantage of the Not Too Young To Run bill recently passed by the Senate. A trained Accountant who graduated from the Texas Southern University, Omotosho who is from Ekiti State, was a … Read...

The Independent National Electoral Commission has issued a notice of election for the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State. The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Prof. Abdul-Ganiyu Raji, at a press conference in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday said this was in accordance with Section...

A member of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Gboyega Aribisogan, has been arrested by security agents and whisked to an unknown destination. Aribisogan, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress in 2017, was arrested at about 6.30 am on Wednesday...

A former governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has formally declared for the July 14 governorship race in the state. The current Minister of Mines and Steel Development said he was persuaded to join the race because of noticeable pangs of poverty, frustrations and misery of Ekiti people...

Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has criticized the federal government over the controversial list of treasury looters in the country. According to source it was reported that minister of Information, Lai Mohammed had released the controversial list of treasury looters at a press...

Deputy Governor of Ekiti State and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, has urged the people of the state to return the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to power in the coming governorship election because PDP has been more beneficial to the state than the...