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As part of the grand plan to win the August 9 governorship election in Osun State, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has settled for one of the arrowheads of Senator Isiaka Adeleke’s political group and former Speaker of the State House of Assembly,  Honourable Adejare Bello, as the running mate to its governorship candidate,  Senator Iyiola Omisore. The decision to pick Bello, a lawyer, Nigerian Tribune gathered, was arrived at after a wide consultation and several hours of meeting with the Ede politician, said to possess the clout to whittle down Adeleke’s influence in the town and even rally many people who would have been swerved by Adeleke’s defection to the APC. Bello had declined to follow Adeleke, his political leader of many years, to the APC, a move that appeared to have paid off. A news release issued and signed by the Osun PDP chairman, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwa, noted that “the elders’ caucus of the party, after two days of serious deliberations, brainstorming ...

A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Olusegun Osoba, on Thursday, vowed not to work with Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his faction of the party in the state. Osoba said this while addressing his loyalists at a stakeholders’ meeting held at his residence at Ibara GRA, Abeokuta, saying the simmering crisis in the party had reached a point of no return, as the meeting kicked against sharing of party offices with the governor’s faction. The former governor of the state directed his loyalists which included the three senators representing the state at the National Assembly, Adegbenga Kaka, Akin Odunsi and Gbenga Obadara and six other members of the House of Representatives and other members of the party to commence the compilation of a new members’ register in the 236 wards in the state. It will be recalled that the party in the state held parallel congresses in April which was a clear indication that all was not well with the party. He said: “Your exc...

      A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Olusegun Osoba, on Thursday, vowed not to work with Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his faction of the party in the state. Osoba said this while addressing his loyalists at a stakeholders’ meeting held at his residence at Ibara GRA, Abeokuta, saying the simmering crisis in the party had reached a point of no return, as the meeting kicked against sharing of party offices with the governor’s faction. The former governor of the state directed his loyalists which included the three senators representing the state at the National Assembly, Adegbenga Kaka, Akin Odunsi and Gbenga Obadara and six other members of the House of Representatives and other members of the party to commence the compilation of a new members’ register in the 236 wards in the state. It will be recalled that the party in the state held parallel congresses in April which was a clear indication that all was not well with the...

A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Olusegun Osoba, on Thursday, vowed not to work with Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his faction of the party in the state. Osoba said this while addressing his loyalists at a stakeholders’ meeting held at his residence at Ibara GRA, Abeokuta, saying the simmering crisis in the party had reached a point of no return, as the meeting kicked against sharing of party offices with the governor’s faction. The former governor of the state directed his loyalists which included the three senators representing the state at the National Assembly, Adegbenga Kaka, Akin Odunsi and Gbenga Obadara and six other members of the House of Representatives and other members of the party to commence the compilation of a new members’ register in the 236 wards in the state. It will be recalled that the party in the state held parallel congresses in April which was a clear indication that all was not well with the party. He said: “Your e...