Hon Alfred Agboola Ajayi
The Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) has urged its teeming supporters and sympathisers in Ondo State to remain firm and undistracted by the campaign of calumny embarked upon by oppositions to discredit Hon Agboola Ajayi, its governorship candidate at the forthcoming election in the State.
A statement by the Publicity Secretary, ZLP, Ondo State, Felix Olatunde said the party was not unaware of plots of oppositions to use some frivolous means to discredit the candidature of Agboola Ajayi.
“We urge our teeming members and supporters to proceed without any fear with ongoing mobilisation and campaign efforts towards ousting the outgoing governor and the APC
“We assure that by the grace of God and the votes of the teeming majority who are tired of the underperformance and nepotism of the outgoing governor, the ZLP will win this election fair and square and no rabble rousing litigant can change the course of history,” the statement said.
Olatunde who said that a lot of prospective voters in the state have been given their support to the Deputy Governor since he picked the ticket as the flag bearer of ZLP assured that efforts to instigate the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) against the party candidate will not work.
“ZLP is well aware of the attempt to create doubt in the minds of our ever-increasing members and indeed voters concerning our popular and widely accepted candidate, Hon Agboola Ajayi.
“We just read a funny ultimatum to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by someone who claims to be a lawyer obviously acting on the prodding of some political adventurers.
“We are aware of the clout chasing effort of those behind the lawyer in this attempt to tout an ultimatum that is futile in its entirety.
“While we know that INEC is capable of taking care of itself and its operations, we state without any equivocation that our candidate was well aware of the preplanned effort now being executed hence he submitted the minimum qualification required by law.
We state that such distracting darts have little or no effect on the growing popularity of our candidate,” he said.
He noted that since several efforts in the past to hinder the political rise of Agboola Ajayi have failed, the recent efforts would equally be in futility.
“Several efforts in the past to hinder the political rise of our candidate have failed woefully and the current effort to hinder him will equally fail.”
