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As part of political realignment ahead of the 2019 general elections, a social political group, comprising youths from the 19 northern states of the federation, under the auspices of Concerned Northern Youths (CNY) has endorsed Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose, describing him as a competent...

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek a second term in office. Fayose said Buhari should quit now that the ovation is loudest. The governor stated this in his congratulatory message to Buhari on his 75th birthday. In a statement by his Chief...

Abdullaziz Yari, chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), says Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti, “is on his own”. On Friday, Fayose said he was not part of the governors who approved the withdrawal of $1 billion from the excess crude account (ECA) to fight Boko Haram. The governor...

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose stated, “Within the last one month, Nigerians have been confronted with messy revelations that gave credence to my earlier position that President Buhari is the life patron of corruption in Nigeria.” During this statement, the South-West Governor...

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has admonished the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose against his ambition to be the party’s presidential candidate in 2019. Fayose officially launched his presidential campaign recently. Reacting to his declaration, PDP warned Fayose against wasting his...

Love in or hate him, Gov Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State is an heavyweight in the political structure of Nigeria. He is the only Nigerian to have defeated an incumbent governor twice. His popularity in his state is majorly due to the influence he has in the grassroots. He relates with them, even...

Ekiti state Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described his current travails in the hands of the. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over the N4.7 billion arms scam, as a plot orchestrated by President Muhammadu Buhari to settle political scores. The governor also said the...

Ekiti state governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has revealed that he has N300m in one of his Zenith bank accounts, as claimed by the EFCC. The EFCC had alleged that Fayose personally moved N300m from the N1.2bn he got from the NSA to a fixed deposit account in April 2015. However, Fayose said he's had...

Striking workers in Ekiti State have resorted to spiritual means to seek ways of ending the industrial action by declaring 3-day of fasting and prayer to seek the face of God. The labour centres in the state, through a statement on Monday, said they had declared a three-day fasting and...

The controversial Ekiti state governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose has been warned against making inflammatory comments about clashes between herdsmen, farmers and their local communities. This was at the Northern Senators Forum held Wednesday, led by Senator Abdullahi Adamu. Adamu said the warning became...

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has refuted the report that he and some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West are having issues over the forthcoming election of the national chairmanship of the party. According to a report filed by PUNCH, Fayose said...

The controversial, and outspoken Ekiti state Chief Executive, Governor Ayodele Fayose has warned the rampaging herdsmen attacking and killing rural dwellers in parts of the country to stay away from his state or risk having people of the state poison the source of water for the cattle reared by...

The Catholic Diocese of Ekiti has filed a suit against the imposition of levies on pupils in its primary and secondary schools by the Ekiti State government. The State Government had shut seven schools run by the Catholic Diocese of Ekiti for failure to pay the Education Development Levy...

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has promised to continue to prosecute programmes that will make life more meaningful for Ekiti people, within the ambits of his administration’s six-point development programmes. Fayose in his new year message said, although the implication of the adverse...

Ekiti state governor, Ayodele fayose has said that for President Mohammadu Buhari declaring Dasuki and Nnamdi Kanu guilty even before trial, Nigerians should be prepared for a return of the 1984 experience in which Buhari’s military tribunal sentenced people to jail terms ranging from 21 to 300...

The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has told the state Governor, Ayodele Fayose, that it would have his days in the courts over fabricated figures on the state’s debts to deceive the people and paint former Governor, Kayode Fayemi, in bad light. Reacting to the claims...

Barely nine days into the new year, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has listed 20 things Nigerians should expect to happen under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government in 2016. These are: 1. Workers Strike: There will be so much industrial unrest, especially in the first quarter...

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has responded to Governor Ayodele Fayose’s allegations in his press conference in Lagos purporting that APC was planning to illegally use the Supreme Court to upturn his mandate in favour of the party. The party accused the governor of blackmail...

The Governor of Ekiti state, Ayo Fayose has taken a swipe at former President Olusegun Obasanjo calling him an expired politician who always goes to Aso-Rock to beg President Buhari for political favours. He said “I was governor without a godfather. I was governor for three years but Obasanjo...

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Wednesday night went personal against the Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, calling him a ‘tout’, New Telegraph report. Soyinka was reacting to what he described as Fayose’s attack on judges shortly before his swearing-in as the governor of the state...