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People of Oyo State will, next Monday, 16th September, 2019, know who exactly won the March 9, 2019 guber election between Governor Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Oloye Bayo Adelabu. After many weeks of legal fireworks, the guber election petition tribunal recently accepted the final written addresses filed by Makinde, Adelabu, PDP and INEC. Adopting his final written address, the counsel to INEC, Akinolu Kehinde (SAN), urged the tribunal to cancel the petition for being grossly unmeritorious and lacking in substance. Kehinde had said that the petitioners erroneously put the burden of proof on INEC whereas the responsibility of proof lies on the petitioners. He had said that the petitioners complained of irregularities in 1,334 polling units and only called 38 polling unit agents out of which majority of them confirmed that the election conducted by INEC complied strictly with the Electoral Act. Keh

Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, said on Friday that the vision of his administration is to make Oyo state the fastest growing economy in Nigeria within a short while. The Governor, who stated this while addressing a two-day retreat  for members of his executive council and senior aides , said  that to achieve this end, his administration would leverage on agriculture value chain among others. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa quoted   the Governor as telling members of his cabinet at the retreat with the theme: "Taking Oyo State from Poverty to Prosperity (P2P)," held at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, that his government was looking towards resounding successes in the four key pillars of the administration. The statement named the four pillars of the government as including Health, Education, Security and Economic expansion through Agricultural value chain. The statement furthe

Emmanuel Uduaghan, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Delta south senatorial election, says the election tribunal should have declared him winner of the February 23 poll. He said this in reaction to the tribunal’s removal of James Manager, his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Manager winner of the election but Uduagahn challenged Manager’s victory. On Saturday, the tribunal annulled the election and ordered INEC to conduct a fresh one within 90 days. In a statement which Monoyo Edon, Uduaghan’s media aide, issued on his behalf, the former governor of Delta said the tribunal’s verdict was an affirmation of his position that the election was rigged. “While we are happy with the tribunal’s judgement which affirmed my party’s position that the election was rigged and characterized with electoral over voting, we are not entirely satisfied with the judgement as the tribunal ought to have de