Ondo 2016: 50 Aspirants Jostle For APC Ticket |PoliFocus

Few weeks to the primary of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State, in the build-up to the November 26 governorship election, the number of aspirants seeking the party’s ticket has reached 50. 

More aspirants are still expected to emerge. The rise in the number of the governorship aspirants seems to be giving the party’s leadership a serious concern.

It was gathered that the issue of how the governorship candidate will emerge in a rancour-free atmosphere has become what one of the APC chieftains termed as a must-not-fail assignment of the party’s National and State Working Committees.

But with the way things are going on within the party, post-primary crisis appears inevitable because all the aspirants seem desperate to get the ticket.

The aspirants are sure of securing the party’s ticket, thereby giving no room for consensus or imposition of candidate by the party’s leadership.

The desperation of the aspirants followed their conviction that the ruling party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party, has lost its popularity among the people.

Each of them had expressed the belief that any candidate presented by the APC for the forthcoming election would have an easy ride to the Alagbaka Government House, Akure, on February 24, 2017.

Some of the leading aspirants of the party are:

• Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN); 
• Senator Ajayi Boroffice
• Mr. Segun Abraham
• Chief Olusola Oke
• Former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr. Victor Olabimtan
• Mr. Bode Ayorinde
• Chief Bukola Adetula
• Mr. Boye Oyewumi
• Moyosola Niran-Oladunni
• Niran-Sule Adesuyi
• Foluso Adefemi
• Dele Alade
• Senator Tayo Alasoadura, who currently represents Ondo Central Senatorial District at the Senate.

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