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Less than 48 hours before Osun State voters head to the polls, two governorship candidates have withdrawn from Saturday’s election and thrown their weight behind the incumbent governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, in a last-minute political realignment that has significantly altered the shape of the contest. Adebayo Simon Adewale of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM)…
An All Progressives Congress leader in Osun State, Adereti, has accused Governor Ademola Adeleke of directing violent physical attacks against opposition members across the state. Political rivalries in Osun are spilling over into open street clashes as the governorship election draws near. Opposition officials claim that state-backed thugs routinely target campaign rallies, destroying property and…
Osun State police officers released Environment Commissioner Mayowa Adejoorin after keeping him in detention for twenty-four hours. Security forces grabbed the state official on Friday following a violent shooting near an All Progressives Congress rally in Ilesa. Police spokesman Abiodun Ojelabi linked the cabinet member’s arrest to an intercepted Lexus vehicle containing spent ammunition and…
Fresh court documents show Nigeria’s anti-graft agency secretly froze three Osun State government accounts rather than the single bank facility it publicly acknowledged. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission obtained a sweeping ex parte court order in Abuja on August 5th to lock down state money. Investigator affidavits targeted both the state’s primary federal allocation…
The Nigerian Bar Association challenged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over its decision to freeze Osun State accounts. The outgoing Bar president, Afam Osigwe, warned that administrative agencies lack constitutional powers to block state bank withdrawals without court orders. The anti-graft agency instructed First Bank to place a post-no-debit order on the state government…
Barely three weeks to the Osun State governorship election, an armed attack on officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Odo Otin Local Government Area has sharpened concerns over security and the credibility of the electoral process in the state. The Osun State Police Command confirmed that about ten suspected hoodlums…
Three weeks before Osun State votes for a governor, a claim by former Governor Rauf Aregbesola that he completed eight years in office without owning a house of his own has pushed the question of personal probity to the centre of an already crowded campaign, and revived scrutiny of an administration whose fiscal record remains…
Barely four weeks before Osun State returns to the polls, the founder of Adeleke University, Ede, Dr Deji Adeleke, has redrawn the familiar map of Nigeria’s electoral integrity debate, arguing that the corruption that undermines the ballot begins not at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) but in the hands of…
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has extended an unusual invitation ahead of one of the most closely watched elections in the country this year, asking the European Union to send observers to monitor the August 15 governorship poll in the state. The appeal, coming barely a month to the vote, signals both the…
A Federal High Court ruling directing the Independent National Electoral Commission to deregister the African Democratic Congress and four other parties has triggered a wave of outrage from opposition figures, who cast the decision as a calculated assault on Nigeria’s multiparty democracy months before the 2027 general elections. Justice Peter Lifu delivered the judgment…