Ondo Guber: Anointed candidate ’emerges’ few hours to APC primary

Information reaching the OsunReporters News revealed that in the early hours of Saturday, April 20, signals emerged on who President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is supporting for the All Progressives Congress, APC ticket for the Ondo 2024 governorship election.

The APC primary election contest is billed to hold on Saturday in Akure, Ondo State capital.

Tinubu has maintained silence in the affairs of the state with regards to the primaries until now.

Sources disclosed that Tinubu decided to tread softly so as not to be seen as taking side with any of the aspirants. refusing to grant audience to any of the aspirants despite pressures from them and several visits to Abuja for the President’s endorsement.

___”;;;; Aides to the President said he is looking for a candidate who will be loyal to the party and prepared to deliver the state to the APC in the 2027 general elections.

,,,”’;;;;;;Credible source said that the silence of Tinubu till early hours of Saturday shows that he has tactically succumbed to pressure from Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa’s fellow governor’s under the NGF, to allow him continue for another four years.

This development has knocked off the 21 years governorship aspiration of Jimoh Ibrahim.

____”””;;;;The businessman , now Senator representing Ondo South in the Senate, began the realization of his governorship ambition in 2003 under the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP.

___So determined to get presidential endorsement was Jimoh of recent that he started adorning the cape with Tinubu’s political logo in all his public outings including overseas trips.