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BREAKING: Baba Ọba of Oyotunji Village Dies Suddenly Amid Controversy with New Alaafin of Oyo(GOV. SEYI MAKINDE)

  Shockwaves are reverberating across Yorùbáland and the global Yorùbá diaspora following the sudden death of the Baba Ọba (King’s Father) of the famed Oyotunji African Village in South Carolina, USA. The late Baba Ọba, Lukman Arohunfale, a revered socialite and traditionalist, passed away under circumstances already sparking fierce controversy. His death comes just days after he publicly accused the newly installed Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty Oba Akeem Adéyẹmọ Owoade, of allegedly ordering his courtiers to beat him mercilessly during a recent courtesy visit to the Oyo palace in Nigeria. In a widely circulated voice recording, the deceased recounted how what was meant to be a simple homage turned violent. Although the Baba Ọba had reportedly battled ill health in the past year, growing insinuations suggest that the alleged physical assault may have aggravated his condition, ultimately leading to his untimely death. The palace in Oyo recently denied that s...
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Atiku leads Buhari in 10 LGAs of Rivers

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is leading in 10 of the 23 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Rivers in the results so far released.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Port Harcourt had earlier on Monday released the results from nine LGAs.
The latest results announced by Collation Officers of Khana, Ogu/Bolo and Opobo/Nkoro, showed Atiku maintaining his lead over President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Party (APC).
The breakdown of the results showed that former Vice President Atiku got a total of 333,385 in 10 LGAs, while Buhari garnered 75,440 in the two LGAs.
Announcing the results, the Collation Officer of Khana LGA, Okechukwu Francis said that Atiku won with 89,843 as against 5,329 of Buhari while Solari Otobo, Collation Officer of Ogu/Bolo said that Atiku got 8,221 as against 2,148 of the incumbent President.
On his part, Prof. Clifford Oforum, Collation Officer of Opobo/Nkoro, said that Buhari scored 3,706 votes while Atiku got 3,573 votes.
NAN reports that results released by the electoral umpire on Monday showed that in Oyibo, Atiku scored 16,102 votes as against 3,520 votes of Buhari while in Omuma, he won with 15,322 votes as against 2,494 votes scored by Buhari.
The rest of the results showed that Atiku won in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni with 28,536 votes; Obio/Akpor, 69,981; Eleme, 8,464; Andoni, 72,330; Etche, 11,135, and Gokana, 10,276 votes.
Buhari polled 18,180 votes to win in Asari-Toru while Atiku got 3,175 votes.
The Collation Officer for Andoni, Prof Prince Oghenekaro, while announcing the results, said that Ward 6 of the LGA had no election as election materials were allegedly carted away by hoodlums.
Also, Dr Godwin Ihenacho, a Collation Officer for Etche LGA, said that there was no election in Ward 14 of the area due to hijack of election materials.
The Collation Officer for Obio/Akpor LGA, Prof. Arthur Nwafor, said the result so far was from 13 out of 17 wards.
He added that four wards — 1, 3, 15 and 16 — which generated a total of 4,000 votes, were not collated due to the security situation in the wards at the time of collation.
Meanwhile, INEC have yet to release the results of the House of Representatives and Senate in the state.
The state Returning Officer, Prof. Aniefiok Essien, however, said that the results from the remaining LGAs would be announced as soon as they arrived.
NAN reports that 11 other LGAs — Abua/Odua, Ahoada East, Ahoada West, Akuku-Toru, Bonny and Okirika have yet to be announced.
The list also includes Degema, Emohua, Ikwerre, Port Harcourt and Tai LGAs. (NAN)
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