FULL LIST: Only one female among 17 candidates for Ondo guber poll

August 22

11:46 2020

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has published the final list of 17 candidates for Ondo governorship election.

Only one female candidate featured on the list of contenders for the October 10 election.

Okunade Taiwo, aged 50, is the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP), with Ibitoye Adebowale as her running mate.

Rotimi Akeredolu, the incumbent governor, is seeking reelection under the All Progressives Congress (APC), with his main challenger believed to be Eyitayo Jegede of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Agboola Ajayi, the deputy governor, is the candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) where he decamped to from the PDP.

Ajayi was elected alongside Akeredolu under APC but he left the party in June and moved to PDP where he lost the gubernatorial ticket to Jegede.

Below is the full list of candidates for the election:

S/N	Name	Party	Sex
1	Rotimi Akindejoye	Accord Party (A)	M
2	Joshua Adewole	Action Alliance (AA)	M
3	Adeleye Peter	African Action Congress (AAC)	M
4	Adelegan Oluwaseyi	African Democratic Congress (ADC)	M
5	Martin Olateru-Olagbegi	Action Democratic Party (ADP)	M
6	Oluwarotimi Akeredolu	All Progressives Congress (APC)	M
7	Oluwoloba Dele	All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)	M
8	Aminu Olarenwaju	Allied Peoples Movement (APM)	M
9	Adesanya Olaoluwa	All People’s Party (APP)	M
10	Okunade Taiwo	Labour Party (LP)	F
11	Ojajuni Eniola	New Nigeria Peoples Party	M
12	Funmilayo Ataunoko	National Rescue Movement (NRM)	M
13	Eyitayo Jegede	Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)	M
14	Babatunde Alli	Peoples Redemption Party (PRP)	M
15	Fasua Oleyele	Social Democratic Party (SDP)	M
16	Ojon Dotun	Young Progressive Party (YPP)	M
17	Agboola Ajayi	Zenith Labour Party (ZLP)	M