Adams Oshiomhole
3 Dec
Senator Adams Oshiomhole, representing Edo North, has said that it is preferable to have 774 local government chairmen who are corrupt than a single centralised leader who controls all the resources. Oshiomhole made the statement during a forum on local government autonomy organised by the House of Representatives on Monday. The former Governor of Edo…
25 Oct
Former Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, who currently represents Edo North Senatorial district at the senate, raised the political ante recently when he reminded the nation how his erstwhile political godson and outgoing governor, Godwin Obaseki
21 Sep
Although neither Governor Gowin Obaseki nor Senator Adams Oshiomhole is on the ballot in today’s governorship election in Edo State, the poll is a proxy war between the duo, whose hitherto relationship as political godfather..
21 Sep
Governorship elections in Edo State have always been keenly contested since Nigeria returned to democratic governance in 1999. In the last 25 years, two major political parties have held power in the state with the ruling People’s Democratic Party
21 Sep
Today, Edo State will literally be a battlefield. The governorship election, which will be held in the state, has all the ingredients of war. The incumbent Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governor of the state, Godwin Obaseki
20 Sep
Tomorrow, residents of Edo State will file out to elect a new governor. With more than a dozen contenders on the ballot, the stakes could not be higher, especially with cries of infrastructural decay, unemployment, untapped potential, and dismal education sector renting the air.
17 Sep
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the September 21 governorship election in Edo State, Dr Asue Ighodalo, has filed a N20 billion defamatory suit against Senator Adams Oshiomhole over comments on Planwell scheme.
14 Sep
Sovereignty in any democracy rests ultimately with the people and how they choose to exercise such powers is up to them and goes a long way in determining what kind of government they get. It is in this light that the popular refrain that says every nation deserves the kind of political leadership it gets…
9 Sep
A former Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, and the Labour Party (LP) candidate in the September 21 governorship election in the state, Olumide Akpata, at the weekend, slammed Governor Godwin Obaseki, scoring his administration low.
3 Sep
Ahead of the September governorship election in Edo State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Monday Okpebholo, on Tuesday pledged to continue from where former governor Adams Oshiomhole stopped in the state. Okpebholo spoke during the APC ward-to-ward campaign in Ovia North East local government Council area of Edo State. The governorship candidate of the…
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A former governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday, called on security agencies to step up investigation and ensure that all illegal arms in circulation across the state are retrieved from unauthorised holders.
16 Aug
Senator Adams Oshiomhole has been given seven days to retract a "malicious and slanderous statement" against Dr Asue Ighodalo, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State. Ighodalo said Oshiomhole, a former Edo State governor, must tender a private and public apology for the alleged infraction or face a N20 billion…
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