The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress ,APC, in Ondo State, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, has declared that the Alliance for Democracy, AD, governorship candidate in the state, Olusola Oke, was no threat to him.
The former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, said this when the party’s National Chairman, John Oyegun inaugurated a 49-member national campaign council for the election in the state headed by the Plateau State Governor, Mr. Simon Lalong, yesterday in Abuja.
Oke, a former governorship aspirant of the APC defected to the AD following the emergence of Akeredolu as the party’s flag bearer ahead of the November 26 governorship election in the state.
The APC governorship candidate maintained that his party will win the forthcoming governorship election in the state.
According to Akeredolu, “Olushola Oke is not a threat to us. I mean if he chose to contest under a dead party that is his choice. There is nothing anybody can do about that. That is not a threat. The dead does not threaten the living.
“We are confident that APC will win in Ondo. Let me give an assurance that Ondo State is a ripe fruit and it is for us to pluck, no party can match us in the state.
“We won in the state during the 2015 presidential election, why can’t we win again at the governorship election.”
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