Sentences with phrase «civilian governor»

Muslim clerics on Monday in Ede, home country of first civilian governor of Osun, Senator Isiaka Adeleke, declared that he was not killed by any man...

Muslim clerics on Monday in Ede, home country of first civilian governor of Osun, Senator Isiaka Adeleke, declared that he was not killed by any man but by Allah.

The real cause of the sudden demise of the former civilian governor of Osun State, Senator Isiaka Adeleke came out on Monday as the Chief Medical Director, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Prof Akeem Lasisi, testified that the late senator died of an overdose of banned injections.

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has joined the league of eminent Nigerians to mourn the departure of a one - time civilian governor of Osun State, Senator...

Akure, the Ondo State Capital, Friday, went agog as Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN and Hon. Ajayi Agboola were sworn - in as the sixth civilian governor and deputy...

The first executive civilian governor of Bayelsa state and Governor General of the Ijaw Nation, Late Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha was also a staunch PDP chieftain whose political structures are still alive and afoot in the area.

Moses Orshio Adasu, the second civilian Governor of Benue State.

The President, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said he joined the bereaved in mourning the elder statesman who he said diligently served the country with courage and dedication at crucial moments in her history, both as military governor and a democratically elected civilian governor.

The former governor was the first civilian governor of Bayelsa State, serving from 1999 to 2005, when he was impeached following his escape from London in order to evade justice after he was arrested for money laundering.

At the lying in state, apart from Saraki and governors are Deputy Governor of Ogun State, Mrs. Yetunde Onanuga, Deputy Governor of Osun State, Chief Grace Laoye Tomori, former Governor of Osun State, Chief Bisi Akande, Former Military Governors of old Oyo State, General David Medaiyese Jemibewon, Col. Oladayo Popoola and Real Admirer Akin Aduwo and former Civilian Governor of old Oyo State Dr. Victor Olunloyo, former Deputy Governor of Oyo State Chief Iyiola Oladokun.

Akure, the Ondo State Capital, Friday, went agog as Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN and Hon. Ajayi Agboola were sworn - in as the sixth civilian governor and deputy governor of the State.

Imo Isemin, the wife of the first civilian governor of Akwa Ibom State, Akpan Isemin, has died.

Osun had just been excised from the Old Oyo and the new state, which was under the grip of military administrators was going to have her first civilian governor.

According to the pathologist who carried out autopsy examination of the death of the first Osun civilian Governor, late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, he stated that, «there were no traces of poison or heavy metals in the toxicology report.

Adeleke, who was the first civilian governor of Osun State died at Biket Hospital in Osogbo on April 23 and the family who suspected foul play asked that an autopsy be done on him at the LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo.

The Coroner Inquest set up by Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola to look into the sudden death of the first civilian Governor of the State, late Senator Isiaka Adeleke has adjourned its sitting to May 29 for presentation of findings.

Not only has it tainted Kogi as a jinxed state, it has also strengthened the belief that it always records a «first» in virtually every bad political occurrence; it is the first state to have a leading candidate dying in election, the first state to have its civilian governor's election upturned, the first state to have three governors in one day... and the latest, the first state to have a governor sworn - in without a deputy.

Of course, since the sudden demise of the former and first civilian governor of Osun and two time senator, the ripples have not ceased from one controversy to another.

The Coroner Inquest set up by Osun state Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, to investigate the cause of the death of the first civilian Governor of the state, late Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke, has recommended the Nurse that gave Adeleke injection shortly before his death, Alfred Aderibigbe, for investigation.

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state has revealed that the first civilian governor of the state, late Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi wanted him...

«Senator Adeleke was a leader who left giant footprints and lasting legacies as the first civilian governor of Osun State,» he stated.

History was made on Monday in Anambra State as a civilian governor, for the first time, handed over to another governor.

According to the State Government which described the former civilian Governor of the state astute and colourful politician and a generous personality, said its still in shock over the ultimate death of a prominent son of our state which can not be replaced.

Deji Adeleke, the younger brother to the first civilian Governor of Osun State, Senator Isiaka Adeleke, has said the cause of the senator's death is yet to be known.

A son of the deceased, who is also the first civilian governor of Ekiti, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, in his remarks, described Fayose as «Omo Baba» (Daddy's son), because he had a good rapport with his late father.