SAN FRANCISCO, January 25, (THEWILL) – If he’s blocked from reelection in 2021 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the governorship election will be won by the opposition, Ondo State governor, Oluwarotimi Akerodolu said Saturday in Abuja.
There has been no love lost between Akerodolu and Ahmed Bola Tinubu, who has the ears of the embattled national chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole.
Akeredolu, who won the APC’s governorship ticket against Tinubu’s preferred candidate and eventually won the guber election in 2017, told journalists in Abuja that he is the only person who could win the election for APC in Ondo State given his pedigree, achievements, and general acceptability by the majority of the people of the state.
“I didn’t ask to become governor of Ondo State; the people sought me out to be their leader. As far as I am concerned power belongs to God and not to any man or leader. It is God who gives power and not any human being. That was why I ran and won the primary of the last governorship election in Ondo State without paying people money as other contestants did.
“I can tell you that there is no threat or panic whatsoever to my second term election. What I do know for sure is that if APC goes ahead to pick another person as their governorship candidate for Ondo State the party would lose the state.
“But with me on the ballot, we will win a landslide for APC in Ondo State. That is certain because God’s hands are with me and I cannot fail in my second term bid. My trust is in God and not in any man with clay feet,” the governor said.
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