Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has advocated for a single term of five or six years for politicians.Makinde said politicians should emulate the single-term leadership of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN).He was reacting to PFN’s National President, Bishop Wale Oke's, remark that the body’s leadership does not allow for a second tenure.Oke disclosed this while speaking at the opening ceremony of PFN’s National Executive Retreat in Ibadan.However, speaki...

The Oyo State governor, Engr Seyi Makinde has been declared the winner of the yesterday gubernatorial election in the state.Seyi polled 563,756 votes to defeat his closest rival and APC candidate who scored 256,685 votes.Makinde is the last of the PDP G5 or Integrity Group with an election. Already, Governors Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) and Samuel Ortom (Benue), who have been in office for eight years each, all lost their senatorial bid while Nye...

A Governor-elect in Bayelsa State, David Lyon, has become the first aspirant to pay N50m to procure the nomination and expression of interest forms of the All Progressives Congress.This is even as the supporters of the Bayelsa politician urged the leadership of the party to grant him the right of first refusal in appreciation of his past success at the poll before pitting him against other aspirants to fight for the sole ticket.It will be recalled that Lyon was elec...