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Ondo 2020: Jegede emerges PDP governorship candidate with 888 votes, to face APC’s Akeredolu

Eyitayo-Jegede

A former attorney general and commissioner for justice in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede, has emerged winner of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election in the state.
Jegede, who polled 888 votes to beat his closest rival, the embattled deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi (657 votes), will fly the PDP flag in the October 10 governorship election in Ondo State.
Other contestants in the PDP primary election are Eddy Olafeso, who polled 175 votes; Bode Ayorinde, 95 votes; Banji Okunomo, 90 votes; Boluwaji Kunlere, 33 votes; Sola Ebiseeni, 29 votes; and Godday Erewa, 14 votes.
Announcing the results at the end of the exercise early Thursday, chairman of the PDP governorship primary election committee for Ondo State, who is also the governor of Enugu State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, said that the election process was conducted and concluded freely, fairly and transparently.

Jegede was the PDP candidate in the 2016 governorship election in the state but lost to Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the incumbent governor who has also emerged the APC candidate in the 2020 election with 2,458 votes to defeat 11 other aspirants.

The 2020 governorship election will be another battle between the two Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Akeredolu and Jegede, making it the second time the two of them will be running against each other in the political history of Ondo State.