The Ondo State Governor, Fortunate Aiyedatiwa, has declared his intention to contest the November 2024 governorship election.
The governor additionally denied that he had had a disaster with the late Rotimi Akeredolu, the previous governor of the state earlier than his loss of life, including that it was a couple of people within the state who have been pushed by their ambition that fueled the disaster within the state induced final yr.
Aiyedatiwa turned governor of the state in December 2023, following the loss of life of the previous governor throughout a chronic sickness in Germany and was buried on Friday at Owo, his nation dwelling.
Because the All Progressives Congress primaries are set to happen in April this yr, the incumbent governor who spoke on TVC Information on Friday night stated he wished to contest and win the occasion's primaries.
He stated: “Positive, I’ll run as a result of I’m already a sitting governor, and let me say that nobody needs to be governor for one yr. Give me what the structure permits me to do, a minimum of let me have the chance to run for workplace, so to talk.”
“Let me simply get this straight for the report: I by no means had an issue with the previous director, there was by no means a time after we had a confrontation, there was by no means a time after we had a problem the place I took it up with him needed to make up for it. .
“Every little thing that was launched on the identical time was of a political nature, there have been every kind of untruths and innuendo as a result of there have been elections arising and so they knew the governor was so in poor health and there have been a whole lot of issues occurring. There was no time, I had an issue to unravel with him, when it comes to disaster.
On the open letter written by 5 members of the state Home of Representatives to President Bola Tinubu, Aiyedatiwa stated: “Certainly one of them is an aspirant, what do you anticipate from an aspirant? He needs to say one thing to take somebody who has an ideal benefit out of the market; the opposite is director basic of a marketing campaign for an aspirant.
“So all of them have their ambition: who they need to be governor. That’s an unprogressive place and the occasion has responded that there was no disaster within the occasion and that they don’t seem to be at odds with me.”
