My governorship ambition behind opposition against me – Aiyedatiwa
Lucky Aiyedatiwa, governor of Ondo State, says that the opposition against him from some members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State is driven by their personal ambitions. Aiyedatiwa was formerly Ondo deputy governor, who succeeded former governor Rotimi Akeredolu following the latter’s death.
Speaking on a Television Continental programme, he said that one of the five members of the House of Representatives who wrote against him to President Bola Tinubu equally had an ambition to become governor of the state.
He said, “One of them is an aspirant, what do you expect from an aspirant? He wants to say something to de-market somebody who has a great advantage; one other one is a director general of a campaign to an aspirant.
“So, all of them have their ambition who they want to be governor. That is an unprogressive position and the party has responded that there was no crisis in the party that they are not at loggerheads with me.”
Aiyedatiwa also dismissed the claims that he squabbled with Akeredolu before his death.
He said, “All that was being pushed out at a time were political, there were all falsehoods and insinuations because an election was coming and they knew the governor was so sick and a lot of things were at play. There was no time, I had an issue that I needed to resolve with him, in terms of crisis.”
The governor said he would be contesting the next governorship election, holding in November 2024.
He said, “Definitely, I will be running because I am already a sitting governor, and let me say this nobody wants to be governor for one year. “Give me what the constitution allows me to do, at least let me have a chance also running for one more term as it were.”
