Our reporter/ Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa on Sunday said his victory in the just-ended governorship poll is a call to deliver more for the people of Ondo State.
Aiyedatiwa won the Ondo governor election, beating the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Ajayi Agboola in the largely peaceful exercise.
The Returning Officer for the election Olayemi Akinwumi, who is also the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State declared Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the election.
Aiyedatiwa, the incumbent governor of the State polled 366,781 votes to defeat his closest rival and a former deputy governor of the state Ajayi Agboola of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag who scored 117,845 votes.
Speaking to reporters after he was declared as the winner of the poll, the Ondo governor promised better days for residents of the South-West state.
According to him, having visited every part of the state during campaigns, he is more in tune with the needs of the people.
“The people should expect better service. And that’s what they’ve been looking forward to because I campaigned across the entire local government,” he said.
“The only candidate that went through the entire local government, not just the capital city of the local government, all communities. In almost all the communities we visited, we saw the roads and the way they look like, the environment they are living in, we heard their voices, we read their messages and we listened and responded to questions and their yearnings and aspirations.
“So, they have that belief that their hope is in me. They believe that whatever we say is what we will do. We will not tell them what we cannot do. We will do all that we have promised within the limited resources available to us.”
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