- The Ondo governorship election will hold later this year on November 16, 2024.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has told Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State that he will have to fight and prove that he deserves the governorship ticket of the party for the state gubernatorial election.
The Ondo governorship election will hold later this year on November 16, 2024.
However, the party has sounded a note of warning to Aiyedatiwa on the party’s candidature at the poll.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Thursday, APC national spokesman, Felix Morka, told Aiyedatiwa not to expect the ticket to be freely given to him.
According to him, the APC is democratic and everyone who desires a nomination must earn it.
He added that anyone who would be vying for the ticket must be suitable and qualified to be a governor.
When asked whether the APC would give Aiyedatiwa the right of first refusal ahead of the party’s primary for the November poll, Morka said, “We have not had that discussion but we are a democratic party; we are a progress party; we don’t give anything to people; people have to justify and earn it.
“And it is not to us they have to justify their suitability, their qualification, or criteria; it is to the people of the state who are our members, who would participate in the direct or indirect primary.
“Whatever preference anyone may have, it is all subject to the democratic decision of the party members who will participate in our primaries.
“We don’t give free gifts in APC; we contest and we compete and we win whatever it is we can get in terms of representation,” he added.
Morka also said he can’t pre-empt whether the governorship ticket would be zoned in Ondo or not