The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has described the governorship election in Ondo State as an “Ondo auction,” that was not close to a free and fair election that the people all yearned for.
He contended that the election was less about genuine democracy and more about transactional politics, with ‘willing buyers’ and ‘willing sellers’ dominating the process.
Reacting to the declaration of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Sunday, Adebayo wrote on his X account that the Ondo election could serve as a case study for the Central Bank’s foreign exchange practices, given the efficient “marketplace” nature of the vote.
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