• Congratulates Akeredolu
THE National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun on Sunday congratulated the Party’s Ondo State governorship election candidate and running mate, Rotimi Akeredolu and Hon Agboola Ajayi on their landslide election victory.
The National Chairman of the party however said that, “With the 2016 Ondo State governorship gone, the task before the party leadership is uniting and healing wounds.”
Chief Oyegun in a statement issued on behalf of the APC National Working Committee (NWC), thanked the Ondo electorate for voting for the party.
He also expressed gratitude to the good people of Ondo State for their impressive turnout and peaceful conduct during the election exercise.
The APC national chairman equally thanked President Muhammadu Buhari and other party leaders for their invaluable support towards winning state governorship election. He called for calm and appealed to the opposition parties and their candidates to accept defeat in good faith.
The statement reads: “The APC thanks the Ondo electorate for voting for the party in the keenly-contested election. The Ondo electorate have voted for the candidate with a proven track record of performance and who will bring about the kind focused leadership and multi-faceted development which the state deserves. The Party assures that we will deliver on this expectation.
“Also, the outcome of the Ondo State governorship election powerfully demonstrates the confidence and trust by our people in the overall leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari’s APC-led administration. The party and the president hold sacred this trust,” the statement concluded.