The Ondo State House of Assembly has promised to back Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa in the upcoming governorship primary election on April 25.
Speaker Olamide Oladiji of the Ondo State House of Assembly made this announcement on Monday in Abuja after meeting with the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje, and other lawmakers at the party’s national secretariat.
Oladiji clarified that their presence at the party’s headquarters in Abuja was not to mislead Nigerians but to express their support for the continuity of an APC-led government in the state.
The Speaker expressed gratitude to President Bola Tinubu and Ganduje for their prompt involvement in resolving the political crisis that occurred in the state a few months ago.
He noted: “We are here also to tell him (Tinubu) that, as far as we are concerned, those of us around, amongst our members, and those that are on their way, that we are fully in support of the continuity of the APC-led government.
“We are in support of continuity. We want APC to continue with the governments of Ondo State. We believe it will work out and we are giving them 100 per cent assurance that the primary elections will be peaceful.”
Expanding on the topic, Oladiji mentioned that the lawmakers did not agree with the letter that was sent to the president by a small group of House of Representatives members.
Oladiji also stated that the state has been extremely peaceful under the leadership of Aiyedatiwa.
According to him, “In respect of the letter that a few members of the House of Representatives wrote to Mr. President, members here, we disagree with the letter. And because we are the honourable members, and we have about 15 of us here present, you know what it means. We are 22 APC members in the House of Assembly; we have 13 here now, and another two are on their way coming, so that is about 15.
“I want to believe that they have not been coming to Ondo State to come and witness what is going on there. They are permanently in Abuja here. We are the ones that are closer to the grassroots. We know what is going on in Ondo State.”
