Ondo Guber: I’ll Defeat Akeredolu, Jegede –Deputy Governor, Agboola

Alfred Agboola Ajayi

Incumbent Deputy Governor of Ondo State and the gover­norship candidate of Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) Alfred Agboola Ajayi has declared that he would floor Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, and Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, the Peo­ples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the October 10 gubernatorial election in the state.

Describing the ruling APC-led government as a fail­ure, Ajayi said Governor Olu­warotimi Akeredolu failed the people of the state with his lackluster performance.

He described PDP as a par­ty that lacked the structure with which it could win elec­tion in the state.

Speaking after he re­ceived defectors from PDP in Okitipupa Local Govern­ment Area of the state who were led by a governorship aspirant, Mr Banji Okuno­mo, former chairman of the local government, Mr Solo­mon Bitire and hundreds of others, the deputy governor alleged PDP of breaching the zoning arrangement in the state and would be punished by voters for such breach.

He explained that Gov­ernor Akeredolu’s perfor­mance in office in the last three and half years fell short of people’s expectations ow­ing to the governor’s alleged decision to personalise gov­ernment.

APC members led by Mr Olukayode Abiodun, the party’s secretary in Akure South, were also received by the Deputy Governor.

The deputy governor said the people would speak against Akeredolu with their votes in the October 10 election for failing to meet their yearnings and aspira­tions.

Appreciating Okunomo for displaying high level of patriotism unlike others, who he said equate their per­sonal interests with that of the entire zone, Mr. Agboola Ajayi said: “PDP and APC are dead in Ondo South. We can postpone burial ceremony, but you cannot wake up the dead political parties.”