Ondo: Deputy Governor Agboola Ajayi In Allged Certficate Forgery Scandal |The Source

By Ayodele Oni, Akure

Still savouring the joy of picking the flag of the Zenith Labour Party, (ZLP) in October 10 Governorship election, the deputy governor, Mr Agboola Ajayi is  confronted with allegation of certificate forgery.

But the ZLP  has declared that its gubernatorial candidate is supremely qualified to not only contest, but govern Ondo State.

The Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Olatunde, in a statement, pointed out that it is aware of the attempt to create doubt in the minds of its ever-increasing members and indeed voters, “concerning our popular and widely accepted candidate, Mr Agboola Ajayi.”

“We just read a funny ultimatum to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, by someone who claims to be a lawyer, obviously acting on the prodding of some political adventurers.

“We are aware of the clout chasing effort of those behind the lawyer in this attempt to tout an ultimatum that is futile in its entirety.

“While we know that INEC is capable of taking care of itself and its operations, we state without any equivocation that our candidate was well aware of the preplanned effort now being executed, hence he submitted the minimum qualification required by law.”

The party insisted that “such distracting darts have little or no effect on the growing popularity of our candidate.”

It added, “Several efforts in the past to hinder the political rise of our candidate have failed woefully and the current effort to hinder him will equally fail.

“We urge our teeming members and supporters to proceed without any fear with the ongoing mobilisation and campaign efforts towards ousting the outgoing governor and the All Progressives Congress, APC.”

The ZLP assured that by the grace of God and the votes of the teeming majority who are tired of the underperformance and nepotism of the outgoing governor, it will win the forthcoming election fair and square, adding that “no rabble rousing litigant can change the course of history”

Ajayi had resigned from the All  Progressives Congress, APC, and defected to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, without resigning from the office of the Deputy Governor.

Within a couple of weeks, he also quit the PDP for the Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, when he failed to pick the parties Governorship candidate.  He is now the candidate of the ZLP.