Posted by Amarachi on Thu 23rd Jul, 2020 - tori.ng
Ondo state deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi, has lost out in the race to pick the PDP governorship ticket as Eyitayo Jegede, has emerged the party's flag bearer for the October 10 governorship election.
Eyitayo Jegede
Eyitayo Jegede, Former attorney-general and commissioner for justice in Ondo State has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election for the October 10, 2020 guber poll.
Eight aspirants – Jegede, Banji Okunomo, Bode Ayorinde, Boluwaji Kunlere, Sola Ebiseni, Godday Erewa, Eddy Olafeso and the state deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi participated in the election.
Jegede polled 888 votes to clinch the party’s governorship ticket and slug it out again with Akeredolu of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the governorship election. Ajayi emerged the second runner-up with 657 votes.
The winner was the party’s candidate in the 2016 governorship election but defeated by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and incumbent governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.
The chairman of the primary election committee and governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, while kicking off the election said: “It is our expectation that this Ondo State primary election will be seamless at the time it is completed. We hope to see that the Ondo State chapter of the PDP elects a widely acceptable flagbearer.”