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Chairmanship and councillorship elections into wards in Ido local Government Area are underway.

Our correspondent who went round some polling units in the council reports that the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission, OYSIEC ad hoc staff were on ground with election materials.

Radio Nigeria also gathered that Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA and Zenith Labour Party, ZLP agents were also seen in some polling units visited at Agbaje, Apete, Awotan and Alakuta areas.

Security personnel were stationed around voting points and others patrolling to ensure protection of lives and property.

Meanwhile, business activities were ongoing without hindrance, as well movement of vehicles. 

Some public and private schools in the local government were also opened for academic activities.

Sheriffdeen Nasirudeen

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As the race for the October 10 governorship election hots up, the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Mr  Agboola Ajayi says he is changing his political platforms in recent time to rescue the people of the state from underdevelopment and untold hardship.

Mr Ajayi stated this in Akure while officially defecting to the Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, few days after resigning from the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP).

The deputy governor, who left the ruling APC about sixty days ago and spent 50 days in the PDP, explained that his decision to join the ZLP was to advance his governorship aspiration.

The ZLP governorship candidate noted that the Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s administration had not lived up to the people’s expectations, pointing out that the outrageous tuition of the state tertiary institutions would be reversed if he was elected as the governor.

Receiving the deputy governor at a rally attended by hundreds of party faithful, the State Chairman of ZLP, Chief Joseph Akinlaja, expressed optimism that Mr Agboola Ajayi would lead the party to victory against the APC and the PDP.

Some former commissioners and lawmakers defected to the ZLP with the Deputy Governor.

Leke Adegbite