The Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in the just-concluded Ondo State governorship election, Agboola Ajayi, has rejected the results and has alleged that the opposition, the All Progressives Congress, and the Independent National Electoral Commission perpetuated “criminality” during the exercise.
The election Return Officer, Olayemi Akinwumi, who is also the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State, declared Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the APC winner of the election on Sunday, extending the governor’s stay at the Government House in Alagbaka, Akure.
Aiyedatiwa, the incumbent governor of the state polled 366,781 votes to defeat his closest rival and a former deputy governor of the state, Agboola who flew the PDP flag. He scored 117,845 votes, more than twice lower than the APC candidate.
However, Ajayi, in a statement by his Special Adviser, Ayo Fadaka, said that he kept silent since poll results were announced to enable him to investigate ‘contents of criminality perpetrated by both the victorious All Progressives Congress, APC, and the INEC. He also threatened to take legal action against INEC and APC.
“we reject the results of the Nov 16th election and will take legal actions to reverse the debauchery, that is the option available to us and we are hopeful that man and God who is the ultimate will give us justice.
“It is time we begin to eschew criminality from our electoral process.”
