Akeredolu Must Resign As Ondo Governor – Sowore,  Says President Tinubu’s Intervention Unnecessary

By Ayodele Oni

A social and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has rejected the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in political crisis in Ondo state insisting that Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu must resign due to his health challenges.

The Publisher argued that President Tinubu’s intervention was unnecessary especially his insistence that Akeredolu must continue to govern the state from Ibadan, Oyo state, despite his alleged incapacitation.

“Mr. Akeredolu spent three months in Germany, where he had gone to receive medical attention. He returned to the country in September, but he has not been to the state since that time. He is recuperating from his private home in Ibadan, several kilometers away from Akure.”

Sowore, who expressed his views through X, formerly Twitter, and tagged both Bola Tinubu and Akeredolu.

H tweeted, “Let’s remind @officialABAT that his so-called intervention in Ondo state to prop up an obviously incapacitated Governor @RotimiAkeredolu is unacceptable, and hereby loudly rejected! Akeredolu must resume or RESIGN!

“He weaponized the Ondo State House of Assembly to remove the deputy, who was fast enough to stop the orchestrated plan.”

After the stakeholders meeting on Friday, at the presidential villa, Abuja, Ajuri Ngalele, the spokesperson for the president released a statement.

The statement reads, “In his bid to restore political stability in Ondo State, President Bola Tinubu, late on Friday, waded into the months-long crisis between factions loyal to the Executive Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, and the Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa.

“This followed marathon negotiations between the President and the Deputy Governor, representatives of Governor Akeredolu, federal and state lawmakers of Ondo, officials of the state’s chapter of the All Progressives’ Congress, and other stakeholders in the state at the State House, Abuja

“The President advised all opposing parties to bury the hatchet and embrace peace, eliciting commitments to this effect.

“This means that Governor Akeredolu remains Chief Executive of the State, Aiyedatiwa remains Deputy Governor, and members of the State Executive Council continue their respective duties, even as the leadership of the State’s House of Assembly and the APC Chapter in Ondo State is preserved.

“Mr. Aiyedatiwa, who declared his decision to maintain the status quo and unite all the factions, said: “I want to say that I pledge to all of you that I embrace every one of you. I put behind all that has happened before now. I’ve let go and also let God, just as the President has advised us.”