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BREAKING: Ajayi, Ondo Deputy Gov Dumps Akeredolu, Joins PDP
Agboola Ajayi, estranged deputy governor of Ondo State, has finally parted ways with his boss, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu.
Ajayi who moved out of Government House on Saturday night after a brawl with the state Commissioner of Police, on Sunday resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Apoi Ward 2, Ese Odo Local Government Area of the State.
According to him, the reason for his resignation from the APC was public knowledge.
After tendering his resignation letter at the APC secretariat in Apoi Ward 2, Ese Odo LGA, Ajayi left the venue for the secretariat of the PDP in the ward where he announced his defection to the party and obtained his party card.
BIGPEN had reported that Ajayi was restrained from leaving the Government House in Alagbaka, Akure, the state capital on Saturday night by the state Police Commissioner, Bolaji Salami and his team purportedly following ‘orders from above’.
The governor would later on Sunday debunked the claims that he was behind Ajayi’s encounter with the police boss.
The governor said that the Commissioner of Police was only at the Government House following an almost compromised security and to restore law and order.
Earlier BIGPEN had reported that Ajayi had been in a running battle with Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu over mounting opposition against Akeredolu second term ambition.
The battle between the governor and his deputy heightened after moves by Ajayi to defect to the state opposition party, PDP. Ajayi may likely clinch the PDP ticket and expected to meet Akeredolu in the polls.
The governorship election in Ondo State has been scheduled for November 26, 2020 by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
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