Ondo State will have three new faces at the Senate from June as none of the incumbents or past senators is a candidate in the 25 February senatorial elections.
only about 1.9 million permanent voters cards had been produced for the state. Out of these, over 1.5 million had been collected and over 300,000 were uncollected. The voters are spread across the 203 wards in the 18 local council areas of the state. Ondo has 3,933 polling booths.
In this oil-rich district lacking in critical infrastructure and suffering from arrested development over the years, voters have a binary choice to make between Mr Ibrahim, a controversial businessman who has been constant Iike the Northern Star in the political firmament of the district for over two decades, and Mr Ajayi, the immediate past deputy governor of the state who is also a smooth political operator and has held one elective office after the other since the country returned to civil...
Mr Ibrahim has been crisscrossing the six local government areas that make up the district, running an electrifying campaign, making promises to the voters and also racking up endorsements from traditional rulers, key personalities and groups in the district. Translating the endorsements into votes on Election Day is another issue, however.
He is a grassroots politician with tentacles spread everywhere. He was a member of the House of Representatives between 2007 and 2011 where he was chairman of the crucial NDDC Committee. Before then, he was elected the chairperson of Ese-Odo LGA and had previously served as a supervisory councillor in the same council in a previous administration.
Besides the seeming disunity in the party, Mr Ajayi is also perceived in some quarters as being inordinately ambitious, hence, his serial movements across parties in the last few years. There are those in the PDP who feel that had he not joined forces with Mr Akeredolu in the 2016 election, the PDP might not have lost the election.
Interestingly, no indigene of Akure in Akure South Local Government Area, the area with the highest voting capacity in Ondo Central, has been a senator of the district since the return of democracy in 1999. The agitation by Akure to have one of its own may have prompted the two dominant parties to produce the two lawyers as their candidates for the February polls.e is the candidate for the PDP.
Eyitayo Jegede, another Senior Advocate, who is from Akure and the 2020 gubernatorial candidate of the PDP, will also mobilise support for Mr Adedipe as he would not want the party to lose in the district because of his own rumoured ambition to vie for the governorship seat again in 2024
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