Prof. Dayo Faduyile, All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Ondo State has vowed to defeat the incubent governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa at the APC guber primaries.
He said: “I contested in 2020 against the incumbent then. So it is not a new thing for me to contest against an incumbent. But in 2020, I collapsed my structure with the then incumbent, Rotimi Akeredolu.”
“The only superior argument that made me do that was because of the agreement on zoning in the state. For every other reason, I was adamant.”
“Now it is the turn of the Southern Senatorial District by providence or otherwise, the governor is no more, and the deputy has now become the governor, and he is from the south. The question is, should I just bury my interest or ambition?”
“The answer is that if you are very confident in what you want to say to change the narrative, you will still contest it. Even when Aketi was contesting, I still contested against him.”
“To face an incumbent governor, you have to put in more effort. I want to also wish my brother, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, luck in his campaign, but look at us together; I’m better than him in many ramifications.”
“If our party now says this is the person they have picked and it is not me, that I’ll go to another party or go and disrupt the process, the thing is, while you are planning your own, you look at the positive side.”
“The second one is for you to be picked either by ballot, consensus, or imposition, but it is left for you to elect yourself, and this is what I’m doing, but I know God is on my side; if it is by direct delegate, I’ll emerge. And if it is by imposition, that imposition will be Professor Dayo Faduyile.”
“The leadership of the party can choose any mode of primaries. I have seen cases in which consensus has been reached and the results have been satisfactory to the members of the party. I have had the opportunity to see where indirect primaries have been used in the same way as direct primaries.”
“Whichever one the leadership of the party wishes to use, anybody who wants to aspire must be ready for any of those three, which are in the rules of the APC.”