Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has disclosed that Saturday’s gubernatorial poll would be his last election in the state.
He disclosed this at today’s signing of a peace accord by himself and the 15 other candidates for the election.
The peace accord coordinated by the Abdulsalami Abubakar-led National Peace Committee (NPC) was witnessed by many prominent Nigerians including the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu and the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
Akeredolu said, “This won’t be our first election, at least for me. This will be the third time around that I will be contesting in the state. And this will be the third and last time that I will be contesting an election in Ondo State.
“We went through elections in the last two occasions, all of us operating as brothers. I cannot recollect any violence in those two elections. But if we have one or two issues here and there, it is not to say that Ondo people are violent. Ondo State people, maybe learning from experience, have refused to be involved in violence. Elections here have always been peaceful.
“I can assure you that the election slated for Saturday will be peaceful for as long as our security agencies are there. Our people are not the one that can confront civil defence talkless of the police or soldiers. Ondo State people are peace-loving people.
“I will also still address the people on the need to avoid violence. A number of us who are contesting in the election talk to each other because we are colleagues.”
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