Ondo Election: A.D Candidate, Olusola Oke Suffers Public Rejection Ahead of Polls

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Ondo Election: A.D Candidate, Olusola Oke Suffers Public Rejection Ahead of Polls

Following the claim by the governorship candidate of the Alliance for Democracy, (AD) Chief Olusola Oke, that they had endorsed his gubernatorial ambition, the families of the late civilian Governors of Ondo State, Chief Adekunle Ajasin and Ade Adefarati, have disowned him.

The families, while reacting to Oke’s claim in a joint statement signed by the late Adefarati’s son, Gboyega Adefarati, the scions of the three political giants cautioned Oke against dropping the names of their patriarchs, Leadership reports.

They stressed further that the AD’s governorship candidate and their fathers had nothing in common in political orientation and moral principle.

According to the statement, “We take exception to Oke’s claim in political jingles on radio and television and his misleading political campaigns that his political philosophy represented our fathers’ political identities, including claiming that our late fathers’ families had endorsed him as the governorship candidate of Ondo State.

“This is clearly a fraud. Nobody in the families of the late leaders ever endorsed Oke because the AD’s candidate has nothing in common with our fathers.

“Ajasin and Adefarati never flirted with the ruling party before they became governors of the Sunshine State; all they did was to remain in their political camps to realise their ambitions without jumping around for fortunes like Oke is now doing by running away from PDP after the party lost the presidential election in 2015.

“Our fathers also did not have any criminal records as Oke is being alleged by his people that he diverted NDDC’s N155m to his private pocket after allegedly using a non-existent community called Ubaeripato to allegedly fund non-existent projects to fleece the people of the Niger Delta of the money meant for their communities development."