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Osun Election: 'We will resist attempt to steal PDP's victory' -Atiku Global News NG | Sept. 23, 2018 Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission not to tamper with the will of the people on who becomes their governor after the tenure of the incumbent, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola. He said he was sure that the people of the state are behind the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ademola Adeleke, adding that the opposition party would win the election on Thursday. Atiku,  who is a presidential aspirant on the platform of the PDP, stated this in Abuja on Sunday while commenting on the governorship election held in Osun State on Saturday.  He also said that the PDP would resist any attempt by the All Progressives Congress to steal the alleged expected victory of its candidate, Adeleke, on Thursday. He said, “The people of Osun State have freely given their mandate to Senator Ademola Ad...

Ambode: Tinubu rejects all pleas from Lagos Governor’s wife in Osogbo Pulse News | Sept. 19, 2018 All the pleas from Mrs. Ambode on her husband’s behalf, didn’t move APC godfather Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Pulse had exclusively reported that Ambode had moved his entourage and his wife, First Lady Bolanle Patience Ambode, to Osogbo where the APC was holding a mega rally for the governorship aspirant in Osun, Gboyega Oyetola. The campaign which was attended by President Muhammadu Buhari and all the APC governors, took place on Tuesday, September 18, 2018. Their mission was to plead with Tinubu--who is now backing former Commissioner Babajide Sanwoolu ahead of the APC governorship primary slated for September 29 —into having a change of heart. According to a report in Punch, that agenda didn’t quite pan out as planned for the Ambodes. Tinubu has fallen out with Ambode for a slew of reasons. Waylaying Tinubu Punch writes that Mrs. Ambode “waylaid the National Leader of ...

'There Is No Earthquake In Lagos'-Oshiomhole Speaks On The Fight Between Ambode And Tinubu Global News NG | Sept. 21, 2018 Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the APC, reacting to claims of disagreement between Ambode and Tinubu, APC leader at a meeting with the party’s governors stated that the embattled Governor of Lagos State, was free to contest for the party’s governorship ticket in the state. According to Oshiomhole, “Now, the attempt to say an embattled governor…there is no APC governor that is embattled and because we are democratic, the best way to measure democracy is the presence of more than one person showing interest in an office. “That does not make any other person embattled. But, of course, the media can create this impression that there is an earthquake in Lagos; there is no earthquake. “At every level, I have seen people claiming that in one or two offices there was no opposition. In every other office, we have more than one candidate expres...