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Osun state governor and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC has been declared winner of saturday’s governorship election. In the result announced early this morning by the returning officer who is also the VC Obafemi Awolowo University OAU Ile-Ife, Professor Bamitale Omole, Aregbesola won majority of the poll with 394,684 votes against Senator Iyiola Omisore of PDP who …

Osun state governor and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress,APC, has won Saturday’s governorship election. In the announced results by the returning officer, who is also the Vice Chancellor Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Professor Bamitale Omole, Aregbesola won the poll in 22 Local Government Areas against Senator Iyiola Omisore of PDP who won in 8 Councils in the …

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of planning to subvert Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State by declaring a false result. The APC said while its candidate, incumbent Governor Rauf Aregbesola, leads in the polls, there are plans by the PDP to declare Iyiola Omisore as winner. Mr. Omisore is the PDP candidate. “Credible information at …

OSHOGBO town was thrown into wild jubilation as results of the Osun State gubernatorial election results were being released at the polling units, reports have it that the All Progressives Congress, APC was in the early lead in Osogbo, Modakeke, Ede, Obokun, just as the PDP has won in Ife central, the strong hold of its candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore. …

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, [PDP], Femi Fani-Kayode, has responded to claim that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress [APC], Rauf Aregbesola, is coasting to victory in today’s governorship election in Osun state. Speaking to PREMIUM TIMES via telephone, Mr. Fani-Kayode said the tallying of the votes was still going on and that it was therefore too …

Former Governor Oyinlola, Minister of Police, lose polling units Gbenga Olarinoye, Henry Umoru, Dapo Akinrefon and Gbenga Oke Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress, APC was shoving aside a stiff challenge from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s Senator Iyiola Omisore as early results from Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Osun State trickled in. Early returns showed Aregbesola to be …

The  celebration of All Progressive Congress in Osogbo was almost marred when a motorist knocked down a 6-year-old boy along Alekuwodo/Okefia road . According to our reporter, the APC faithful took to the streets in wild jubilation as preliminary results from the polling centres across the state capital puts Rauf Aregbesola in early lead. “Motorist knocks down 6 year old …

Collation of results at polling centres have commenced in most polling centres across Osun amidst tight security. Police and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps personnel  as well as party supporters and agents witnessed the exercise. Voters were still voting in some  few polling units as at 4 p.m., several others had commenced collating their results. At Ward 4, Unit 5 and …

Vote counting in the gubernatorial election in Osun state has commenced with the first results of the election trickling in. Voters across the state  turned out massively as early at 6 AM Nigerian time for accreditation and voting commenced  early in several districts. However, there was massive deployment of soldiers across the state and mass arrest of opposition All Progressives Congress …

American warplanes struck Sunni militant positions in northern Iraq on Friday, the Pentagon said in a statement, confirming the first significant American military operation since ground troops left Iraq in 2011. Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon Press Secretary, said that two F-18 fighters dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery target near Erbil. Militants of the Islamic State …