Factional candidate of the State’s ruling People’s Democratic Party
(PDP), who was sacked by the Appeal court, Jimoh Ibrahim, has endorsed
the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rotimi Akeredolu,
as an ideal person to lead the state.
“The people of Ondo have no choice than to love Akeredolu. I know him as a selfless politician with peerless leadership. #OndoLoveAkeredolu,” Ibrahim tweeted late Friday.
It will be recalled that the Appeal Court on Wednesday had ruled in favour of Eyitayo Jegede, the candidate of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the PDP, and backed by Mimiko, as the authentic candidate of the party in the election.
Ibrahim expressed his disapproval of the ruling and insisted that he remained the candidate of the party.
He said: “The court did not make a consequential order asking INEC to remove my name; so nobody can remove my name from the ballot,” Ibrahim tweeted on Thursday. “The judgment is very vague; it is nebulous and ambiguous. INEC cannot dare to remove my name.”
But his praises on APC’s Akeredolu may be a signal that he had given up on his quest to become the governor of Ondo State.
The Ondo election is expected to be keenly contested among Rotimi Akeredolu of the APC, Olusola Oke of the AD and Eyitayo Jegede of the PDP.
“The people of Ondo have no choice than to love Akeredolu. I know him as a selfless politician with peerless leadership. #OndoLoveAkeredolu,” Ibrahim tweeted late Friday.
It will be recalled that the Appeal Court on Wednesday had ruled in favour of Eyitayo Jegede, the candidate of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the PDP, and backed by Mimiko, as the authentic candidate of the party in the election.
Ibrahim expressed his disapproval of the ruling and insisted that he remained the candidate of the party.
He said: “The court did not make a consequential order asking INEC to remove my name; so nobody can remove my name from the ballot,” Ibrahim tweeted on Thursday. “The judgment is very vague; it is nebulous and ambiguous. INEC cannot dare to remove my name.”
But his praises on APC’s Akeredolu may be a signal that he had given up on his quest to become the governor of Ondo State.
The Ondo election is expected to be keenly contested among Rotimi Akeredolu of the APC, Olusola Oke of the AD and Eyitayo Jegede of the PDP.