Why Wike, Oyetola, Umahi, others’ Life Pensions Must Be Stopped – SERAP 

  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged President Bola Tinubu to ensure the stoppage of further collection of life pensions and other allowances of former governors who are serving as ministers in his administration from the states while they serve as ministers. SERAP, also urged the President to instruct the former governors to immediately return any pension and allowances that they may have collected since leaving office to the public treasury. The affected former governors, who are now ministers in the Tinubu administration, include: Badaru Abubakar, Nyesom Wike, Bello Matawalle, Adegboyega Oyetola, David Umahi, Simon Lalong, Atiku Bagudu

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Wike, Oyetola, el-Rufai, Adelabu, others on Tinubu’s ministerial list

Barring any last-minute change, President Bola Tinubu will, today, send the list of ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening and confirmation, Vanguard has learned. Top on the list for screening are the immediate past Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufia, current Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake, former governor of Osun State, Adegboyega Oyetola, Wale Edun, and immediate past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, Adebayo Adelabu and Beta Edu. Names will be submitted today. Adelabu was the former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, while Edu was Commissioner for Health in Cross River

By |July 27th, 2023|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Adeleke accepts Supreme Court’s ruling on Osun election, wishes Oyetola well

The gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2018 governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has congratulated Governor Gboyega Oyetola on his victory at the Supreme Court. The Justice Rhodes Vivour-led Supreme Court, Friday, affirmed the election of Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the governor of Osun. At the ruling today, five of the seven-man panel of judges of the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Oyetola whose election was, therefore, upheld. But shortly after the Supreme Court’s ruling, Senator Adeleke, in a statement by signed by Spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, said his ambition to

By |July 5th, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Adeleke wins at ‘Pakurumo Supreme Court,’ APC mocks PDP candidate

The United Kingdom branch of the ruling All Progressives Congress in a mock tweet on Friday, congratulated PDP’s candidate in the 2018 Osun governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke. The party also mocked the politician’s nephew and singer, David Adeleke, aka, Davido, saying, “Congrats, @iam_Davido”. Featuring a video of the politician dancing with a lady, APC said Adeleke won his election petition case at Pakurumo Supreme Court — an uncomplimentary reference to Adeleke’s style of dancing. On its verified Twitter handle, @APCUKingdom, APC UK tweeted, “BREAKING: Sen Ademola Adeleke [@IsiakaAdeleke1] of @OfficialPDPNig wins @Pakurumo Supreme Court! In a unanimous judgment delivered by the

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S’Court Minority Judgement Declares Senator Adeleke Duly Elected Governor of Osun

They disagreed with the Majority Judgement Accuses INEC of rigging the election for the ruling APC Justices Adamu Galinje and Kumai Akaahs of Supreme Court have dissented to the lead judgment of the Apex Court Declaring Oyetola Gboyega of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the duly elected governor of Osun State. Starnews reports that the two justices in their minority judgement also declared PDP and its candidate, Senator Ademola Adeleke winner of the last governorship election in Osun State. Justice Akaahs criticised INEC’s decision to rely on its manual rather than the country’s Constitution to order a rerun. 

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Atiku Writes Senator Ademola Adeleke Over His Loss At Supreme Court

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has written to console Senator Ademola Adeleke over his loss at Supreme Court in a split decision of five to two members of the panel, on Friday, where the Apex court affirmed Gboyega Oyetola of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as duly elected governor of Osun State. On his verified official Twitter page, the former Vice President and Presidential Candidate of PDP wrote: “I join with people of goodwill all over Nigeria to say to Senator Ademola Adeleke, and the people of the great state of Osun, that we stand with them in good times and

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Breaking: Supreme Court Declares Oyetola of APC As Duly Elected Governor of Osun State

The Supreme Court has affirmed Gboyega Oyetola as the authentic winner of the 2018 Osun State governorship election. The court delivered its ruling on Friday, July 5, 2019, as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ademola Adeleke, loses his appeal before the apex court. The apex court in a split decision of five to two members of the panel, on Friday, agreed substantially with the Court of Appeal which ruled that a majority judgement delivered at the tribunal was a nullity. The court said the judge who had read the majority judgement at the tribunal, Peter Obiora, was

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Adeleke Vs Oyetola: Police beef up security in Osun ahead of Friday’s Supreme Court’s judgement

The Osun state Police Command, on Thursday, stated that security has been beefed up in the state to prevent any breakdown of law and order ahead of Friday’s Supreme Court’s judgement on the 2018 Osun governorship election. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Folashade Odoro, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the police was fully prepared for the outcome of the petition. “Officers have been placed on red alert and are pro-active to prevent any kind of violence or demonstration in the state. “We will, however, want to urge people of the state to maintain law and order and go

By |July 4th, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Adeleke Vs Oyetola: APC Leaders Intimidating S’Court Judges Using Buhari’s Name -Group Alleges

A civil society group, the Civil Liberty Union, has raised alarm over alleged harrassments and threats against some members of the Supreme Court panel of Justices presiding over the Osun governorship Appeal by a team allegedly led by a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Southwest and 2 governors one from the South West and the other from North West. The group alleged that the APC leader and the two governors were allegedly using the names of President Muhammadu Buhari to intimidate the Justices to jettison the supremacy of the Constitution and find any way to give

By |June 27th, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Osun: The Dissenting And Majority of Appeal Court Judgements That Keep Nigerians Talking

The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Thursday, upheld the election of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State, even as it nullified the tribunal judgment that declared Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as valid winner of governorship election that held in the state in September, The appellate court, in a four-to-one decision, held that the entire proceedings of the Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, including its judgment, amounted to a nullity. Justice Jummai Sankey who read the lead judgment of the appellate court, said it was wrong for a member of the tribunal panel, Justice Peter

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