Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa says he wished his principal and predecessor, the late Rotimi Akeredolu, could have witnessed his declaration as governor.
Daily Sun recalls that Akeredolu, the former governor of Ondo state, died in December last year after a long battle with prostate cancer, and Aiyedatiwa succeeded him.
Aiyedatiwa, the candidate of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, was proclaimed the vote winner on Sunday after defeating his close competitor, Agboola Ajayi of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The governor, while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today with an emotive tone, dedicated his win to the late governor.
“The Lord gives and takes but today he is no more. How I wish he was present in that banquet hall when I was declared in the company of other brother governors. That would have been really good but God knows better,” he said.
Aiyedatiwa, the state’s incumbent governor, received 366,781 votes, defeating his closest competitor and former deputy governor of the state, Ajayi Agboola of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who received 117,845.
