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Makinde in the eye of Oyo governorship storm

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So far, the 2023 presidential election has proved to be a lofty box of intriguing surprises for candidates and stakeholders, leaving many sleepless and jerking them to make a reassessment of their strategies. The Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, an engineer, is topmost among those whose political positions are threatened as the country prepares for […]
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So far, the 2023 presidential election has proved to be a lofty box of intriguing surprises for candidates and stakeholders, leaving many sleepless and jerking them to make a reassessment of their strategies.

The Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde, an engineer, is topmost among those whose political positions are threatened as the country prepares for the March 11 governorship and state assembly elections.

Coalition forces still on the menu

Governor Makinde, who is seeking to return to the Agodi Government House in Ibadan, is presently facing the arduous task of navigating through the possibility of coalition plans amongst his opponents, such as Teslim Folarin of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bayo Adelabu of Accord Party (AP), Olukayode Popoola of the New nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and others. Indeed, coalition is not an impossibility because pundits are already touting the idea ahead of the next elections.

Like the previous elections, especially in 2011 and 2019, the 2023 exercise also promises to be a semblance of what played out in those years when a coalition of political parties and strange bed fellows amongst politicians coalesced structures to wrest power from incumbents. Those affected by this development were the late Adebayo Alao-Akala of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who lost reelection as a sitting governor, and the late Abiola Ajimobi, who was the first governor to rule the state twice but failed in his bid to install Adelabu as successor in 2011 and 2019 respectively.

Ultimately, the threat of an alliance between other contestants may be heightened as Folarin is already consolidating on his party’s success at the just concluded polls. In his congratulatory address to the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Folarin encouraged Oyo residents to replicate the February 25th feat during the governorship election, saying, “It is indeed going to be a new dawn for us in Oyo State. A government of the APC at the centre led by Asiwaju Bola Bola Tinubu and Oyo State under the party led by me is the best as this would give us the much desired greater state.”

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Don’t Use NLC’s Platform, Funds To Pursue Your 2027 Ambition – Abure Knocks Ajaero

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Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that National Chairman of Labour Party, LP, Comrade Julius Abure, has told the President of the nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajaero not to use the platform, funds and resources of the NLC to pursue his ambition of either becoming the president of the country in 2027 or governor of Imo State.

Abure stated this at Asaba, Delta State on Wednesday while reacting to the shutting down of the Labour Party’s National Headquarters by protesting members of the NLC who demanded for his immediate removal as National Chairman of the party.

He said the “picketing” of the party’s office was politically motivated, describing it as a show of rascality and abuse of office and the laws of the land.

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Why I Withdrew From Ondo Guber Race — Eyitayo Jegede

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Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo state in 2020, Chief Eyitayo Jegede, on Thursday, said he withdrew from the 2024 governorship race to give room for unity and ensure victory for the party in the forthcoming governorship election.

Jegede who noted that disunity has not allowed any candidate from that party to win the governorship race in the state, said he chose to sacrifice his ambition for the development of the party.

This is just as a group within the party, PDP Crusader, hailed the decision of Jegede to step aside in the forthcoming governorship election in the state in order to build a strong and united party that can send the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) packing in the state.

The Coordinator of the PDP Crusader, Hon Mayokun Akinmoladun, said the group was ready to follow and support Jegede in any decision he took on the party’s primary and the November 16 governorship election.

Akinmoladun said the most important thing to the party is to come together and rescue the state, noting that the party was not being run the way it was supposed to be.

He said the party may go into extinction if care is not taken, and commended Jegede for financing the party since it lost the governorship seat some eight years ago.

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El-Rufai Visits SDP Office Amid Rumour Of Defection (Update)

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Lifestyle Nigeria gathered that Ahead of the 2027 general elections, former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El- Rufai on Wednesday visited the Abuja National Secretariat of the Social Democratic Party, SDP.

A source said El-Rufai paid a consultation visit to the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam.

The former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

He was nominated for a ministerial position in President Bola Tinubu’s administration but was not confirmed by the Senate.

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