President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Rotimi Akeredolu on his reelection as Ondo State Governor.
Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) secured 292,830 votes, defeating his closest challenger, Eyitayo Jegede of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with nearly 100,000 votes in the result announced Sunday.
In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the president urged the governor-elect to be magnamious in victory.
Buhari said Akeredolu’s “resounding victory” showed “that one good turn surely deserves another.”
He thanked the people of Ondo State for keeping faith with their Governor, and the APC, noting that “the people know the person and party that truly serves them, and have spoken in clear voice and unmistakable terms.”
The president appreciated the electorate in Ondo State for “comporting themselves decently and in order, and for exhibiting conduct that indicates that the country is making progress in its electoral behavior”.
He also gave kudos to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for “organizing credible, free and fair election, and to security agencies which ensured that orderliness was enthroned and maintained”.
He urged Akeredolu to be humble and magnanimous in victory, and serve the people of Ondo State even better than how he did in the first term, noting: “when you serve with heart and might, the people respond in like manner, and we can easily get to where we are headed as a country.”
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