DRAMA AS ONDO GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES SIGN PEACE PATH AGREEMENT
The governor of Ondo state refuses to shake hand with his deputy governor
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Eyitayo Jegede, and the Zenith Labour Party’s candidate and deputy governor of the state, Mr Agboola Ajayi, together with the candidates of other parties signed the accord. In the peace path agreement forum barely three days to the gubernatorial race was sign on tuesdays, however, a mild drama ensued at the tail end of the event as Akeredolu refuses to shake hands with his deputy governor Mr Agboola Ajayi.
After signing the pact to ensure peace before, during and after the election, all three major candidates are enjoined to embrace, shake hands or bump elbows with one another as a sign that they had embraced peace.
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Akeredolu greeted PDP’s candidate, Jegede, by bumping elbows with him as requested. but when it was the turn of his deputy, contesting against him from another party, the governor refused to shake hands with or embrace him, instead wave at him from a distance to show his stance against him still.
This is to show that there existing hegemony continually exist before and might continue even after the elections.
