The major opposition PDP had positioned itself to strategically reap from what volarised the ruling party, but the party too got enmeshed in its own internal crisis among the eight aspirants. Ondo EyitayoJegede Akeredolu Election
, have been won and lost. In the ruling APC, 12 governorship aspirants slugged it out for the party’s ticket, although there were some disagreements on the mode of primary to be adopted.
The primary election was more a contest between Ajayi and the PDP candidate in the 2016 governorship election, Eyitayo Jegede, who eventually won the election on Wednesday July 22, 2020. Other PDP aspirants were the former state’s Publicity Secretary, Banji Okunomo, Bode Ayorinde, Boluwaji Kunlere, Sola Ebiseni, Godday Erewa and the former South West Vice Chairman, Eddy Olafeso.
Many political readers observed that the defeat was due to PDP making a political somersault by picking its candidate, Jegede, from the same Central Senatorial District with then incumbent governor, Mimiko, who had broken the two-term jinx in the state. Immediately the Chairman of Ondo State APC primary committee and Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, declared Akeredolu as the winner, he, in his acceptance speech, offered the olive branch to his co-contestants and sued for peace among the party members.
While extending the olive branch to aggrieved members and other APC aspirants, he added, “Therefore, I find it delightful to say here and now that we have all won together. Consider me as the custodian of your vision for the Sunshine State. Together, we shall move the state forward. Under my watch, we shall witness a more robust, reassuring and rewarding relationship.
“The advantages and opportunities that incumbency confers were overstretched to constitute the incumbent into both an umpire and a contestant. But then the delegates have spoken clearly and so be it. I wish the winner and our party well.” “We resolved we remain members of the APC in our respective wards. As members, we are interested in a united, cohesive APC, where members will be treated as equal, where government patronages will no longer be sectional, where rights and privileges of members will be respected without hindrance.”
“Unless it is unavoidable, our members will not, for now, do anything that will be injurious to the overall interest of our party in the state. Whatever negotiations should be done, we are expecting that within the next seven days all reconciliation efforts, all terms and conditions, would have been agreed upon.”
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