We Are Bound By People’s Mandate Till 2021 – Ondo Deputy Gov Tells Critics |The Source

By Ayodele Oni

Deputy Governor of Ondo state, Mr Agboola Ajayi, has said that he has no cause to resign his appointment now.

The social media was awash early in the week that Ajayi was set to resign as Deputy Governor to pre-empt fresh moves by the House of Assembly to impeach him.

His, alleged, sudden resignation was also anchored on perceived irreconcilable differences between him and former Governor Olusegun Mimiko, a chieftain of Zenith Labour Party, (ZLP) after the last Governorship election, which placed him at a distant third position.

He contested on the platform of ZLP after he lost the PDP Governorship primary to Eyitayo Jegede, and even lost in his Ese Odo local government to both the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) at the October 10 election.

In a statement on Tuesday by his media adviser, Mr Allen Sowore, Ajayi stated that the report about his resignation “is false and a figment of the imagination of the writers.

“The Deputy Governor was elected together with Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu SAN by the good people of Ondo State in 2016. That four years mandate given to both men will not end until 23rd February, 2021.

“The news of his impending resignation is being sponsored by the governor through the propaganda machinery and machinations of Ondo State Ministry of Information as a subterfuge in preparation for a macabre plan to put the deputy governor’s forged signature on a prepared resignation letter.

“The general public should be wary of these latest antics and desperation of the Governor to remove his Deputy by all means and at any cost illegally.

“The people of Ondo State, who voted for Agboola Ajayi as Deputy Governor in 2016 have not ask him to resign or quit the government. Therefore, he has no reason whatsoever to relinquish the people’s mandate, which of course is limited by term/time, democratically bestowed upon him.”

Ajayi resigned from the APC, but received to quit his office as the Deputy Governor.  Most people see his refusal to quit as immoral.