Vote PDP Candidates Into State Assembly For Checks And Balances, Ondo PDP Tells Electorates
The Ondo State People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the electorates in the State to troop our enmass and vote for all the house of assembly candidates of the party ahead of Saturday’s election. In a statement signed and made available to press men in Akure by the State Publicity Secretary of the party, Hon. Banji Okunomo, the PDP said voting for the candidates of the opposition PDP into the state house of assembly is the only way needed checks and balance that will engender accelerated development could take place in the state. The full statement reads: “We commend
PDP Exposes INEC Ineptitude Over Inconclusive Senatorial Election In Ondo South
The supplementary election into the Senate slated for Saturday, the 9th day of March 2019, in the southern Senatorial district of Ondo State by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is a mere academic exercise. It is stating the obvious that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)emerged victorious in the Ondo South Senatorial Election held on Saturday, the 23rd day of February 2019 wherein our candidate, Otunba Nicholas Tofowomo scored 79,029 votes; while his closest rival, Senator Yele Omogunwa of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 51,993 votes, leading to a wide margin of 27,036 votes ahead of the APC
Elections: EFCC Stopped From Probing Plane Loaded With Cash
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been barred from investigating a private jet loaded with money on February 15, 2019, the eve of the aborted presidential and National Assembly elections, Saturday PUNCH learnt on Friday. Our correspondent gathered that the plane which was billed to fly to Ilorin, Kwara State, from Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos failed to take off due to the weight of the money on board. Multiple sources said the EFCC operatives thereafter stormed the plane after a tip-off from some people about the cargo. They demanded the source of the money, its owner and
Atiku, PDP leaders show video proofs of election rigging to Abdulsalami, Kukah, others
Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and the National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, have shown video clips of alleged rigging of the February 23 presidential and National Assembly elections in the country to members of the National Peace Committee headed by a former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.). They presented the videos in Abuja on Thursday night, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. Among those who watched the clips with the former head of state were Cardinal John Onaiyekan and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah. PDP members who were at the meeting, which held at
Nicholas Tofowomo Writes Ondo South Over Supplementary Election
The Senatorial Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo South, Otunba Nicholas Tofowomo, has written the good people of the district and the general public, intimating them of the status update over the inconclusive results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Senatorial district. In a statement signed by pastor Olumide Akinrinlola, his director of Media and Publicity, Tofowomo called on the people to eschew violence and prepare for the Supplementary election fixed for Saturday next week alongside the state house of assembly election in the state. The full statement reads: “Dear good people of
