Politics

APC Wins Saki West State Constituency Rerun Election

By Web News 427

By Bashir Sulaiman/Nafiu Busari

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Shittu Ibrahim, has been declared the winner of Saturday’s Saki West State Constituency rerun election for Oyo State House of Assembly.

The rerun was conducted in Odo-osun unit 007 in Ogidigbo area and Ogbalanja polling unit 019 in Sepeteri/Bapon registration area.

The results of the rerun at the two polling units indicated that Mr. Shittu polled 290 votes while Okedoyin had 330 votes.

Announcing the results, the INEC Returning officer, Professor Olusola Oyewo said Mr. Shittu Ibrahim polled 13, 850 votes to defeat Mr. Julius Okedoyin of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who had 13, 670 votes.

Mr. Shittu was declared winner of the March 18, 2023 election by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), but Mr Okedoyin and PDP approached the election petition tribunal, to challenge the results, claiming irregularities, overvoting, and non-compliance.

In a unanimous judgement delivered in September 2023, a three-member tribunal led by Justice Jubril Anaja, nullified Mr. Shittu’s election.

The tribunal held that over 1,000 voters were disenfranchised, while the margin of victory between the winner and petitioner was 270 votes.

In an attempt to overturn the tribunal’s decision, Mr. Shittu appealed the judgement and in November 2023, the Court of Appeal upheld the tribunal’s judgement and ordered a rerun in the two polling units.

Education

Muslim Model College Student Emerges Winner of NCC Writing Competition

By Web News 965

By Oluseyi Olarinde 

A student of the Muslim Model College, Ibadan, Miss Firdaous Ojutalayo has emerged the overall winner of the National Creative Writing Competition organized by the Nigerian Copyright Commission, NCC.

The maiden edition of the National Creative Writing Competition initiated by the Nigerian Copyright Commission was organized for the Secondary Schools students across the federation.

Speaking during the presentation of award of excellence to miss Ojutalayo who came first in the competition, the Director General, NCC, Dr John Asein explained that the programme tagged catch them young, was put together to discover new talents and encourage creativity among the students.

The NCC DG who was Represented by the Deputy Director, Public Affairs , who is also the coordinator of the 2023 National Creative Writing Competition, Mrs Ijeoma Egbunike, said the 3 categories of the competition which included Essay writing, Poem, and short stories received over 700 entries from all over the country.

The State Coordinator, Nigerian Copyright Commission Ibadan office, Mrs Olabisi Ogundiran, who encouraged other students to improve on their studies and create passion for creative writing called on them to desist from patronizing pirated books describing the act as a killer of creativity.

Chairman , Governing board of the Muslim Model College, who is also a retired staff of Radio Nigeria Ibadan zonal station, Alhaji Kola Animasaun called on the students to be abreast of happenings around them by listening to Radio and watching television.

Principal of the College, Mrs Olabisi Alao charged the students to be hardworking and improve themselves on a daily basis 

The winner, Miss Firdaous Ojutalayo said contesting for the competition was a challenging one, advising her colleagues to improve themselves in research and their studies.

The Nigerian Copyright Commission had earlier presented books to the school library and also presented a plaque and a laptop to Miss Ojutalayo.

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