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Ahead of Saturday's governorship and State Assembly elections, the National Working Committee (NWC) of Accord party (A) has dissolved the Oyo State executive members of the party, for endorsing the incumbent Governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Seyi Makinde, against the candidate of Accord, Bayo Adelabu.  Addressing journàlists after a two-hour emergency National Working Committee (NWC) meeting of the party chaired by the National chairman, Hon. Muhammad Lawal Nalado, Accord said those relieved of their offices were the State Chairman of Accord, Prince Kolade Ojo, Hon. Yinka Dairo, who is the Oyo State Accord Secretary, and the entire executive committee members of Accord in Oyo State. Nalado, who explained that the decision was a resolution of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Party, also directed those affected by the resolution to hand over all party materials and documents in their possession, with immediate effect, to the new caretaker executive mem...

National body of Accord party has dissolved Oyo state chapter of executive council following their illegal alliance with the Oyo chapter of People's Democratic Party (PDP). In a memo signed by the national secretariat of the party, a temporary caretaker have been appointed to sees to the affairs of the party. More details......

All major political parties contesting in the gubernatorial election this Saturday are courting Engr. Dotun Sanusi, owner of the flourishing Ilaji Hotels and Sports Resorts. Even before the presidential election was concluded, candidates as well as influential persons  working to get his support for their preferred guber hopefuls have been thronging his Akanran office as well as his Bodija home. It would be recalled that Sanusi, who is an Ibadan Mogaji and Otun Apesinola of Ibadan, had mobilized support for Bola Tinubu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC and president-elect. Inside source told this newspaper that all the major parties— APC, Accord and Peoples Democratic Party, have all sent emissaries to the University of Ibadan graduate. Though not a politician, it was learnt that Sanusi is friend to all major actors in the state. While he and Makinde married from the Rivers State and have been friends for long, he and Teslim Folarin of the APC have cordial relationsh...

Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in February 25, 2023 house of representatives election in Ibadan North East/South East federal constituency, Adedapo Lam-Adesina, has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has not concluded the election.  The youthful politician was reacting to news doing the rounds that his main challenger and incumbent, had been declared. It was learnt that INEC had declared election in the federal constituency inconclusive. According to Lam-Adesina, who represented the federal constituency between 2015 and 2019, said he and other candidates in the election were waiting on INEC to give a definite date for the supplementary election in the affected polling units.  Charging members of the APC as well as members of the federal constituency not to relent till victory is secured, he revealed that INEC has denied the fake news that it has announced anyone. “I like to thank our people for the support. I want to promise that I...

Accord, Oyo central senatorial candidate in the recently held Presidential and National assembly election in Oyo state, Engr. Faozey Oladotun Nurudeen, has described as baseless, rumors making the rounds that he has defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress-APC in the state. Engr. Faozey Oladotun Nurudeen who polled a total of 41,743 votes in the keenly contested election, in a message personally signed by him said, he has put the election behind him as a firm believer in the tenets, and frowned at the misleading information been peddled around by members of the APC in the state. He said, as a refined politician with a strong Grassroot support base and with a complete sense of decency, he will not hide behind a finger if after due consultation with his followers, he wants to move to any other political party. He declared that he is a member of Accord and a firm believer in the Programmes and ideas of the party. While warning the faceless group of transactional politicians, w...

  An Oyo State-based sociopolitical group, the Oyo Kajola Group (OKG) has told opposition elements in the state to back off a dead horse, declaring that they cannot defeat the governor of the state, Engr. 'Seyi Makinde, with lies and needless religious sentiments. The group maintained that it was sad and discouraging that the opposition parties, especially the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state does not have a meaningful manifesto to woo the electorate in the state other than to heat up the polity with religious bias and lies. A statement by the Media Coordinator of the Oyo Kajola Group, Mr. Adebayo Ayandele, indicated that all the lies, deceit and misinformation being spread by the APC would not help its candidate on Saturday, as Oyo State residents know better than to return the state to 'factory setting' after four years of massive achievements under Governor Makinde. The group particularly wondered why individuals, whom it described as opportunistic politician...

  An Oyo State-based sociopolitical group, the Oyo Kajola Group (OKG) has told opposition elements in the state to back off a dead horse, declaring that they cannot defeat the governor of the state, Engr. 'Seyi Makinde, with lies and needless religious sentiments. The group maintained that it was sad and discouraging that the opposition parties, especially the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state does not have a meaningful manifesto to woo the electorate in the state other than to heat up the polity with religious bias and lies. A statement by the Media Coordinator of the Oyo Kajola Group, Mr. Adebayo Ayandele, indicated that all the lies, deceit and misinformation being spread by the APC would not help its candidate on Saturday, as Oyo State residents know better than to return the state to 'factory setting' after four years of massive achievements under Governor Makinde. The group particularly wondered why individuals, whom it described as opportunistic politician...