Ondo Deputy Governor, Ajayi Promises Not To Resign

Ondo State Incumbent Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi, says his tenure will end next year February 23, 2021.

The incumbent deputy governor is the governorship candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) in the just-concluded governorship election in the state, said he would finish the first term tenure with Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.

This was the sequel to the public declaration of the governor, who had said that the deputy governor knows what to do, purportedly to resign since he left the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for ZLP.

The Media Adviser to the Deputy Governor, Allen Sowore, in a statement made available to journalists in Akure, dispelled Ajayi’s resignation.

Sowore, who alleged that the purported resignation was sponsored by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu as propaganda through the machinery of the state’s Ministry of Information, described it “as a subterfuge in preparation for a macabre plan to put the deputy governor’s forged signature on a prepared resignation letter.

“The general public should be wary of these latest antics and desperation of the governor to remove his deputy by all means and at any costs illegally.

“The people of Ondo State, who voted for Agboola Ajayi as Deputy Governor in 2016 have not asked him to resign or quit the government.

“Therefore, he has no reason whatsoever to relinquish the people’s mandate, which of course is limited by term/time as democratically bestowed upon him.”