Akeredolu Meets Buhari, Asks Deputy Governor To Resign

The newly re-elected Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, on Tuesday was the Aso Villa to present to President Muhammadu Buhari his Certificate of Return. Akeredolu Meets Buhari Tells Agboola To Go

Akeredolu recently of the back of contesting and securing a second term in office, after winning last Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State, he seized the opportunity of his visit to the Presidency to call on his incumbent deputy governor Alfred Agboola Ajayi to resign from office if he still had in him any iota of honour at all left.

He was accompanied by the state deputy governor-elect, Lucky Ayedatiwa; and the governors of Lagos, Kebbi, Ekiti and Jigawa States.

It is known that Ajayi who was Akeredolu’s Deputy during his first term, had defected from the ruling All Progressive Congress to the PDP and then to Zenith Labour Party where he contested for the Governorship position and lost.

He contested the election against Akeredolu on the platform of the ZLP and came third after Eyitayo Jegede of the PDP.Ondo

The governor said even if Ajayi refused to resign, his days are numbered since a new deputy would soon be inaugurated.

Akeredolu also said his earlier statement declaring some indigenes of the state as his enemies for life was a mere political statement, saying that having won the election, he has no reason to keep enemies.

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