Guber polls: Why I want to become Ondo's first female governor, by Adekojo
AFEMALE governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress ( APC), Funmilayo Adekojo, at the weekend, said that her intention to vie for the governorship seat of Ondo State was to change the narrative of governance in the state.
Adekojo, who stated that women had for a while taken the back seat in the political landscape of the state, said that it is time for women to take their place come the November governorship polls.
The APC aspirant, who hails from the Northern Senatorial District of the state, said this, at the weekend, while declaring her intention to contest for the election in Akure, the state capital.
She said: "The reason why I want to be the next governor of Ondo State in the 2024 governorship election is for my people because I am a woman of the people.
"Our men have done their best, but this is the time that women need to come in to correct some things and bring changes to our people."
Adekojo, who spoke on the zoning arrangement in the state, added: "I know our people are not sentimental. There is something we call a rotational zone, and if anybody wants to say the truth, our late Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu was the last person to finish the rotation.
"It was a complete circle, and in the history of Ondo State, when it was time to pick the zone that would start the circle again, they made it so flexible. So, the late Akeredolu finished the circle. It is now open to anybody from the zone to pick it first. So, I am going to pick it up again from my own zone, and when I finish, it's going to go around again until it is rotated.”
ALSO, the SecretaryGeneral of the panYoruba socio- cultural organisation, Afenifere, Sola Ebiseni, yesterday, said that the people of Ondo State are fed up with the ruling APC, going by the hardship in the state.
Ebiseni, who recently declared his intention to run for the governorship election of the state in November this year, said the APC would be rejected at the polls by the people.