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September 29, 2014

Police placed on red alert in #Ekiti

by Godwin Akanfe The police in Ekiti State has placed its men on red alert to foil any plan to further disrupt the peace in the state. According to a statement, the Commissioner of Police, Taiwo Lakanu, has ordered the deployment of adequate manpower to embark on extensive vehicle and foot patrols on all nooks... Read More

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September 26, 2014

Fayose visits family of murdered NURTW leader, challenges Fayemi to do the same

by Isi Esene Ekiti governor-elect, Ayo Fayose has challenged Governor Kayode Fayemi to visit the family of the murdered former Ekiti State Chairman of National Union of Road Transport Workers, Omolafe Aderiye. Violence erupted in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital following news of the NURTW former Chairman who is a known supporter of Fayose. During his visit, Fayose... Read More

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September 26, 2014

Mayhem in Ekiti! Governor @KFayemi’s campaign office set ablaze, curfew declared

by Emma Chidogo and Kolapo Olapoju Update: 1230 hours – reports just reaching the YNaija newsroom say that the Ekiti state governor, Kayode Fayemi has declared a curfew in the state. More details below. A fracas has broken out in Ekiti state after a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti, Chief Omolafe... Read More

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September 20, 2014

They are all getting on the train || Another Nigerian politician joins Twitter

by Emma Chidiogo Recently joining the club of Nigerian politicians who are social media friendly, is the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Ahmadu Adamu Muazu. Muazu joined Twitter (@Muazuaa) on the 23rd of May, 2014. In his first tweet, he updated “I am the National Chairman of the #PeoplesDemocraticParty Twub. For... Read More

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September 7, 2014

“I will probe Fayemi after my inauguration” || Ekiti Governor-elect, Fayose means business

by Azubuike Azikiwe Ayo Fayose, Ekiti State Governor-elect, has declared his intention to investigate all last minute contracts, payments and appointments made by the outgoing governor, Kayode Fayemi. In a series of Tweets on his Twitter handle during the week, he said he would look into the outgoing Governor’s recent employment spree, while also reiterating his... Read More

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September 4, 2014

Fayemi is no longer paying us – Ekiti civil servants cry out

by Adedayo Ademuwagun It’s been more than two months since the election in Ekiti state, and some civil servants claim that since the elections, they have been going without pay. This week, health workers at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital threatened to strike because they hadn’t been paid for July and August. Local government workers... Read More

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August 29, 2014

If you came after the election, you will be fired – Ekiti PDP tells Fayemi recruits

The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the incoming Ayo Fayose Administration will not recognise all appointments and recruitments made by the Governor Kayode Fayemi Administration after the June 21 governorship election in the state. The party claimed that the Fayemi Administration has acted callously and primitively as no... Read More

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August 26, 2014

How Gov. Fayemi’s aide & family members escaped death in Ekiti

by Isi Esene Odunayo Ogunmola, an aide to Governor Kayode Fayemi yesterday escaped death after a truck ran into his car in Ado-Ekiti. Ogunmola who had six other people in the car said the truck lost control while going up a hill around Deeper Life Camp Ground road, Ajebamidele area of Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.... Read More

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August 20, 2014

You dey owe; we no dey owe – PDP and APC in Ekiti trade accusations

by Godwin Akanfe The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the state government over the alleged non-payment of the July salary of local Government workers and teachers in the state, saying it is wicked to deny workers their wages. Party spokesman, Kola Oluwawole said the party noted that the action... Read More

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August 9, 2014

#OsunDecides: 10 things you SHOULD know about Lai Mohammed’s arrest (READ)

by Isi Esene After its embarrassing loss to the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Ayo Fayose in Ekiti, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is apparently throwing all it has into the Osun gubernatorial elections where the incumbent governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola meets stiff opposition from the formidable Sen. Iyiola Omisore. The Party, in a last ditch... Read More

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July 21, 2014

Akin Osuntokun responds to Fashola: I, and Ekiti citizens, had very good reasons to reject Fayemi

by Akin Osuntokun I have written specifically twice on the Ekiti governorship elections and on each occasion it was provoked by the outrageous tendency of insinuating and citing Ekiti as a backward people for making the choice they made on June 21st 2015 – as typified in the writings of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos... Read More

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July 14, 2014

Demola Rewaju: Ekiti – A politician’s wife and her husband’s example (Y! Superblogger)

by Demola Rewaju Bisi Fayemi is a good first lady – better than many but in terms of political campaigns, her image worsened her husband’s and became almost a confirmation that the man is haughty and out of touch with the people My aim in this piece is not to castigate His Excellency the Governor... Read More

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July 12, 2014

Opinion: Ekiti is a new sociology, stupid!

by Israel Jaiye Opeyemi So, don’t look too far for answers to why Fayemi may have lost all the local governments. It was money speaking! The Ekiti governorship election has come and gone, but certainly not its consequences. This is why in other climes, both the party that won and the one which lost the... Read More

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July 10, 2014

Kingsley Kuku: Ekiti elections and Fashola’s paralogic

by Kingsley Kuku For Fashola and his ilk, it is befuddling and illogical human behavior for a ‘good governor’ to lose election in his ward or his local government. Reading Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola’s commentary on the outcome of the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State was quite exhilarating. However, for the Lagos... Read More

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July 6, 2014

Sola Akinyede: Ekiti – The myths and biases of ‘stomach infrastructure’

by Sola Akinyede With regard to our selling our destiny for bags of rice, and the talk of “stomach infrastructure”, what I perceive is sheer hypocrisy, anger and ignorance. During the last campaign as with previous campaigns, I saw bags of rice with the APC logo and picture of Fayemi in numerous vehicles criss-crossing the... Read More

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July 5, 2014

Dele Momodu: APC, please get serious

by Dele Momodu Those who packaged the present concoction for APC did not do well at all. It created doubts in the minds of admirers like us about the sincerity of the Party that claims to represent change. Fellow Nigerians, please let me say categorically that I don’t subscribe to the sentiments of those who... Read More

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July 3, 2014

Rudolf Okonkwo: The tyranny of the elite

by Rudolf Okoknkwo From the East to the West and the North to the South, the Nigerian masses are beginning to see that the elite are not motivated to solve their problems but only interested in protecting their privileges. Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state is a thorough-bred elite. He lost an election and conceded... Read More

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July 1, 2014

Opinion: Ayo Fayose – The Ekiti electorate made a bad choice

by Akin Adesokan It is true that the electorate in Ekiti made a choice it considered to be in its interest. But I think it is a bad choice, and it doesn’t matter whether or not I live there. I do not think that people of Fayose’s intellect should be in position of power in... Read More

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June 30, 2014

Bayo Oluwasanmi: #EkitiDecided – The Art of the matter

by Bayo Oluwasanmi To my people of Ekiti State – land of honor and fountain of knowledge – you must always watch out for mercenary hypocrites’ clever disguise. Much has been written about the outcome of the Ekiti State gubernatorial elections. Political pundits are still squaring off over the reasons why Governor Kayode Fayemi lost.... Read More

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June 29, 2014

Hannatu Musawa: Mutating from defeat to hope in Ekiti

by Hannatu Musawa Sadly, many leaders especially in Africa hardly ever relinquish power with the kind of grace and demeanor Governor Fayemi exhibited in the aftermath of the Ekiti elections. As the dust in Ekiti settles in the aftermath of the gubernatorial election, memories of the grueling and hard fought campaigns have already started fading... Read More

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June 29, 2014

Tunde Fagbenle: #EkitiDecided – Yes, I’ve been proved wrong, very wrong

by Tunde Fagbenle Yes, I have been proved wrong, very wrong, by the Ekiti people from the result of the election. But I am not alone. Indeed, I am in very good company. Penultimate week, a younger friend of mine, Akintayo Akindeko, son of the late Chief Akindeko of the First Republic politics fame, held... Read More

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June 29, 2014

Sonala Olumhense: #EkitiDecided – Impunity, nourished by immunity

by Sonala Olumhense I join all of those who have congratulated Fayose, a man who defied all forecasts and his fragility at the edge of a waiting political burial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to return to the scene of the massive allegations against him. The defeat of Governor Kayode Fayemi of... Read More

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June 29, 2014

Simon Kolawole: The clear message from Ekiti voters

by Simon Kolawole My conclusion, therefore, is that Nigerians who pontificate in classrooms, on pulpits, in newspapers and on the social media about democracy, good governance and development need their heads examined. I was at work sometime in 2003 when I got a call from my wife. She said with a form of excitement: “There... Read More

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June 28, 2014

Opinion: #EkitiDecided – What really went down in Ekiti?

by Meje Apamiran Ekiti people are okay with their choice. Let them be the ones to curse themselves, your prejudice is not superior to their resolve. This election was won landslide by PDP, subtract the errors. PDP still won. . The announcement by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Saturday’s concluded, conclusive and if you may... Read More

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June 27, 2014

Akin Osuntokun: How the PDP took over the South-west in 2003

by Akin Osuntokun It is said that when a lie is sufficiently repeated it begins to attain the status of truth. Egged on by a thoroughly brainwashed media, the APC grew increasingly incapable of making distinction between myth and reality. In 2002 I was invited by President Olusegun Obasanjo to represent the South-west zone on... Read More

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June 26, 2014

Olusegun Adeniyi: #EkitiDecided – And the winner is… Fayemi

by Olusegun Adeniyi Yet, the only way our democracy can grow is if people begin to understand that for every electoral contest, there must be a winner as well as a loser. Although I have told the story before, I do not think of anything better which speaks to a time like this. In March... Read More

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June 26, 2014

Opinion: #EkitiDecided – Why Gov. Fayemi was defeated

by Nicholas Ibekwe In fact, at Ikere, some jubilant voters were singing: “he would go back to Ghana this time. He would go back to Ghana this time,” in Yoruba, highlighting the mood among some residents that Mr. Fayemi was an outsider. While the defeat of the incumbent governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, in Saturday’s... Read More

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June 25, 2014

Ayokunle Odekunle: Dear APC Twitterati, elections are not won on Twitter

by Ayokunle Odekunle That people do not approve of your idea of change does not mean they do not want change. Your idea of change might be retrogressive and not progressive to another person. On Sunday, October 30, 2005, Jose Mourinho, the Manager of Chelsea FC called Arsenal Manager. Arsene Wenger a Voyeur. What was... Read More

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June 24, 2014

‘Ekiti was a fluke, PDP can never win in Rivers,’ APC boasts

by Akan Ido The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has dismissed as a fluke, last Saturday’s dislodgement of the party by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the governorship election in Ekiti State. “This development, which was unexpected, does not portend anything any danger for the APC in 2015, especially in Rivers State.... Read More

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THE 2015 TRACKLIST: Buhari hatches plan to defeat GEJ | APC thinks Jonathan is playing dirty politics | More stories

Police placed on red alert in #Ekiti

Fayose visits family of murdered NURTW leader, challenges Fayemi to do the same

Mayhem in Ekiti! Governor @KFayemi’s campaign office set ablaze, curfew declared

They are all getting on the train || Another Nigerian politician joins Twitter

“I will probe Fayemi after my inauguration” || Ekiti Governor-elect, Fayose means business

Fayemi is no longer paying us – Ekiti civil servants cry out

If you came after the election, you will be fired – Ekiti PDP tells Fayemi recruits

How Gov. Fayemi’s aide & family members escaped death in Ekiti

You dey owe; we no dey owe – PDP and APC in Ekiti trade accusations

#OsunDecides: 10 things you SHOULD know about Lai Mohammed’s arrest (READ)

Akin Osuntokun responds to Fashola: I, and Ekiti citizens, had very good reasons to reject Fayemi

Demola Rewaju: Ekiti – A politician’s wife and her husband’s example (Y! Superblogger)

Opinion: Ekiti is a new sociology, stupid!

Kingsley Kuku: Ekiti elections and Fashola’s paralogic

Sola Akinyede: Ekiti – The myths and biases of ‘stomach infrastructure’

Dele Momodu: APC, please get serious

Rudolf Okonkwo: The tyranny of the elite

Opinion: Ayo Fayose – The Ekiti electorate made a bad choice

Bayo Oluwasanmi: #EkitiDecided – The Art of the matter

Hannatu Musawa: Mutating from defeat to hope in Ekiti

Tunde Fagbenle: #EkitiDecided – Yes, I’ve been proved wrong, very wrong

Sonala Olumhense: #EkitiDecided – Impunity, nourished by immunity

Simon Kolawole: The clear message from Ekiti voters

Opinion: #EkitiDecided – What really went down in Ekiti?

Akin Osuntokun: How the PDP took over the South-west in 2003

Olusegun Adeniyi: #EkitiDecided – And the winner is… Fayemi

Opinion: #EkitiDecided – Why Gov. Fayemi was defeated

Ayokunle Odekunle: Dear APC Twitterati, elections are not won on Twitter

‘Ekiti was a fluke, PDP can never win in Rivers,’ APC boasts

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