Ondo 2024: ‘Nobody Wants to Be Governor for One Year’ – Aiyedatiwa Joins Guber Race, Says No Crisis with Late Akeredolu

Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has declared that he will contest the April governorship primary of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Vanguard reported.

Speaking on a personality television programme monitored in Akure, the state capital, the governor said that “nobody wants to be governor for one year.

Aiyedatiwa said that he would like to contest and win the forthcoming election as required by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for one more term.

When asked if he would be contesting the governorship election, Aiyedatiwa said, ” Definitely, I will be running because I am already a sitting governor, and let me say this: nobody wants to be governor for one year.

“Give me what the constitution allows me to do, at least let me have a chance of running for one more term as it were.”

The governor denied having a crisis with the late Akeredolu before he died.

Aiyedatiwa added that it was “a few individuals in the state who were being driven by their ambition that caused the crisis in the state last year.

According to him, ”Let me put this straight for the record sake: I never had issues with the former principal; there was no time we had a face-off; there was no time we had an issue that would demand that I have to make up with him.

”All that was being pushed out at a time was basically political; there were all falsehoods and insinuations because the election was coming, and they knew the governor was so sick, and a lot of things were at play.

“There was no time; I had an issue that I needed to resolve with him in terms of crisis.

“All that you saw at a time was basically political. It was driven by the ambition of a few people who knew there was going to be transition in the state, and I was advantaged as the deputy.”

Reacting to the open letter written by five members of the House of Representatives from Ondo State to President Bola Tinubu, the governor said,”Everybody is entitled to his or her own opinion.

“That is just an opinion of some people who are so driven by ambition.

“If you look at the profile of those five members of the House of Representatives, they have their individual aspirants they are supporting for the election.

“One of them is actually an aspirant; what do you expect from an aspirant? He wants to say something to demarket somebody who is having a great advantage; one other one is a director general of a campaign for an aspirant.

Aiyedatiwa added that ”all of them have their own ambitions about who they want to be governor. That is an unprogressive position, and the party has actually responded that there was no crisis in the party and that they are not at loggerheads with me.

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