Tag: Rally
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Yoruba Nation: Stay off Lagos; no rally allowed for now, Police warn Igboho, Akintoye
Lagos State Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumosu has warned that no rally, under whatever guise, will be allowed to hold in the state. He, therefore, warned Sunday Igboho and Banji Akintoye to stay away from the state. Odumosu, who addressed reporters Thursday, warned the agitators and their followers against staging the planned July 3rd rally…
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Ondo 2020: Agboola’s candidacy boosted as Mimiko’s ZLP pulls massive rally in Ore[Photos]
Ondo State Deputy Governor and the Governorship candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), Agboola Ajayi and Engr Gboye Adegbenro, his running mate, on Saturday flagged their campaign for the 2020 Ondo governorship election today, Saturday, September 19, 2020. The rally which is streamed live on various online channels and radio stations in Ondo state…
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Edo 2020: Thugs invade venue of Oshiomhole’s rally, burn vehicles, chairs, canopies
The face-off between Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, got messier on Saturday, as unidentified thugs overnight set ablaze vehicles, canopies and chairs parked at the venue to be used for a political rally in Auchi, Estako West local government area. The…
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Again, Obaseki, Oshiomhole clash over planned rally for Ize-Iyamu, supporters
There is anxiety in Benin City, the Edo State capital, over Friday’s planned rally to receive defectors into the All Progressives Congress (APC). National Chairman of the APC Adams Oshiomhole is expected to welcome the former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mr. Osagie Ize-Iyamu and his supporters into the party. But Governor…
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Buhari mourns deaths of his supporters at APC rally in Rivers
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the tragic death of some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in a stampede at the presidential campaign rally in Port Harcourt, Rivers, on Tuesday. In a statement issued by a presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu in Abuja, President Buhari extended deepest condolences to the families and…
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Tension in Ogun as thugs disrupt Buhari’s rally
Scores of hoodlums chanting the slogan of a rival opposition governorship candidate on Monday disrupted the Presidential rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and sacked supporters of the Prince Dapo Abiodun, the governorship candidate of APC, from the main bowl of the MKO stadium, Abeokuta. Other APC members and supporters seated awaiting the arrival…
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Two dead, several injured at APC rally in Oyo State
No fewer than two people died in a bloody clash between suspected political hoodlums at an All Progressives’ Congress (APC) campaign rally in Igboora area of Oyo State. The incident occurred immediately after the rally held at the old motor park in Igboora on Saturday evening. The campaign train, led by Gov. Abiola Ajimobi, had…
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‘This is why you are hungry’, Amaechi tells Nigerians at Buhari’s campaign
The Minister of Transportation and Director General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation, Rotimi Amaechi on Friday said the “hunger” by Nigerians today was caused by the havoc wreaked on the nation’s economy by the previous administrations of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). “They said you are hungry,” Amaechi said on Friday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom…
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2019: Eight PDP supporters die in auto crash on way to campaign rally
No fewer than eight people were feared dead in a fatal accident involving supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue State on Friday. The accident occurred on Otukpo- Agatu Road in the state while the party supporters were travelling to Agatu for the flag-off of Abba Morro senatorial campaign for the 2019 elections.…
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2019: Obasanjo makes surprise appearance at PDP rally
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, stormed the rally of one of the governorship aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Oladipupo Adebutu. Adebutu, who is currently representing Remo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives and his supporters were at the rally held within the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential…