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Ondo 2020: l will win the party’s ticket again – Akeredolu

AS governor Rotimi Akeredolu boasted that he would again win the party’s governorship ticket, the aggrieved party leaders in the Unity Group yesterday kick started the process of picking a consensus candidate amongst them. ” lf there is an election that is devoid of shenanigans, l will win hands down” Akeredolu declared. No fewer than seven aspirants in the group are eyeing the seat to slug it out with the incumbent governor.
The party’s primary will hold in July while election proper has been fixed for October 10 this year by the lndependent National Electoral Commission INEC Governor Akeredolu said in Akure that he” has accepted the calls of the people from various quarters and backgrounds that he should contest for another term in office.   According to him” l am particularly moved by the magnitude of 4+4 signs that numerous people of the state have been displaying. He declared that those interested in the governorship seat in the Unity group are of no match to him. Akeredolu said ” we will meet at the primaries. They are no match to me. I will win the primaries. We have delivered and the people on our side are more than those with them. ” lf we go for an election today we are sure of having over 70 percent votes across the state. So we are at home with the majority of the people in the state. ” They should congratulate me after winning and also join our government and if they win I will also congratulate them.   Meanwhile, the group of aggrieved leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress has constituted a “7-man Candidate Emergence Committee” to pick a consensus candidate that will face Akeredolu in the party’s primaries.

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