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The 2023 Oyo State gubernatorial election will take place on 18 March 2023, to elect the Governor of Oyo State, concurrent with elections to the Oyo State House of Assembly as well as twenty-seven other gubernatorial elections and elections to all other state houses of assembly. [ 1][ 2] The election—which was postponed from its original 11 ...
Oyo State coup attempt. On 13 April 2024, a group of armed Yoruba separatists attempted to capture government buildings in Ibadan, the capital of Nigeria 's Oyo State. Acting on the orders of a leading separatist, Modupe Onitiri-Abiola, the militants intended to overthrow the local government and enforce the independence declaration of the so ...
Oyo State is a state in southwestern Nigeria.Its capital is Ibadan, the third most populous city in the country and formerly the second most populous city in Africa. [8] Oyo State is bordered to the north by Kwara State for 337 km, to the southeast by Osun State for 187 km, partly across the River Osun, and to the south by Ogun State, and to the west by the Republic of Benin for 98 km.
Ibadan (UK: / ɪˈbædən /, US: / ɪˈbɑːdən /; [ 4 ] Yoruba: Ìbàdàn) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 2,649,000 as of 2021, and over 3 million people within its metropolitan area. It is one of the country ...
The deputy governor of Oyo State is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the government of Oyo State, Nigeria, after the governor of Oyo State, and ranks first in line of succession. The deputy governor is directly elected together with the governor to a four-year term of office. Bayo Lawal is the current deputy governor ...
Oyo, Oyo State, is the seat of the line of the rulers of Oyo.Their territory, a constituent rump state, is located in what is now Nigeria.Since the 1900 political absorption into Southern Nigeria of the kingdom that it once served as a metropolitan center, the traditional monarchy has been either a tool of British indirect rule or a legally recognised traditional polity within the republic of ...
The 2019 Oyo State gubernatorial election occurred on March 9, 2019, the PDP nominee Seyi Makinde won the election, defeating Adebayo Adelabu of the APC. [1][2] Seyi Makinde emerged PDP gubernatorial candidate after scoring 2,772 votes and defeating his closest rival, Ayo Adeseun, who received 21 votes. [3][4] He picked Rauf Olaniyan as his ...
Bayo Lawal. Abdulraheem Adebayo Adeleke Lawal (born 14 April 1954) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who has served as the deputy governor of Oyo State since July 2022, he was appointed to the position following the impeachment of Rauf Olaniyan on grounds of misconduct and a series of allegations leveled against him. [1][2] He was Chairman ...