Ondo 2020: I’ll defeat consensus candidate from unity group — Akeredolu

AKURE—GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, yesterday, vowed to defeat the consensus candidate that emerged from the Unity Forum.

No fewer than 12 aspirants in the team are jostling to unseat Akeredolu in the party’s foremost scheduled for July this year.

A committee set up to display the 12 aspirants has picked a consensus candidate who will be introduced with the aid of the chief of the group, Alhaji Ali Olanusi.

Speaking via his Information and Orientation Commissioner, Donald Ojogo in Akure, the governor denied sponsoring the disaster presently rocking the Unity Forum.

He said: “I am prepared to go into party primary with any of them. Remember that I defeated all of them before. So, this will no longer be an exception.

“Governor Akeredolu is greater targeted on turning in proper governance to the human beings and making ready for the essential alternatively than dissipating electricity making an attempt to create troubles in the Unity Forum.

“He is a flesh presser that does no longer undermine absolutely everyone however enable matters to take a herbal course.

“The lesson from what is taking place in the Unity Forum is that there is a restrict to the pace of lie. Every lie has an expiry date. The restriction of each and every lie is truth and conscience.

“There is none amongst these governorship aspirants that the governor had now not had a private stumble upon with in phrases of conflicting relationship however they will usually come collectively as leaders of the birthday celebration and they will settle.

“We have an Olusola Oke there; we have Ife Oyedele, Segun Abraham. Who, amongst them, will now make himself on hand to be used?

“In any case, they all understand that the most sudden man or woman to strike a deal inside that manner is Akeredolu due to the fact he won’t have time for that.”