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The supporters of Presidential Candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Oyo State on Tuesday morning pulled a mammoth crowd at the party’s secretariat in Oke-Ado, Ibadan.

According to local sources, the supporters arrived at the secretariat as early as 7 am, waiting for the commencement of the rally across Ibadan which

Videos making the rounds showed the supporters carrying placards with inscriptions such as: “Awa lokan”; ”Jagaban lokan”; “Tessy lokan”, “Road to Aso Rock”; “Vote Tinubu” and “Asiwaju is our man” among others.

The crowd which had branded caps has awed many Nigerians as they took to their social media handles to make remarks.

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Nigerians have been reacting to the plans of the federal government to present a certificate of registration to the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA), a breakaway faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Ripples Nigeria gathered that CONUA is a separate body with presence in a few federal universities, and is led by its National Coordinator, ‘Niyi Sunmonu, a lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife.

The fresh development is against the backdrop of unreconciled differences between ASUU and the Federal Government, and it has been generating controversies on social media.

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…By Hamzat Rasheed

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