February 24, 2025
The incumbent governor and governor-elect in the November 16, 2024 Ondo state governorship election, Lucky Aiyedatiwa has been inaugurated as the Governor of the State to commence his first full four-year term, having completed the second tenure of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu who died in December 2023.
The swearing-in ceremony on Monday is coming two months after Aiyedatiwa won the governorship election under the banner of the All Progressives Congress, APC, took place at the Ondo State Sports Complex in Akure, the state capital .
Aiyedatiwa, who took his oath of office as the seventh Ondo State governor immediately after his running mate Olayide Adelami, thereafter rode in a ceremonial open van around the complex.
A former deputy governor, Aiyedatiwa ascended to power on December 27th, 2023 after Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s death.
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Akeredolu died after a lengthy battle with illness and had before his demise transmitted power to Aiyedatiwa.
He, thereafter, won the APC’s ticket for the 2024 governorship election in Ondo, pitting him against 17 other candidates including Ajayi who was also a former deputy to Akeredolu during his first term in office.
Dignitaries present at the inauguration ceremony include the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje, Lagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Ekiti state governor Biodun Oyebanji, former governors of Osun state, Chief Bisi Akande, Chief Olusegun Osoba, and Dr Olusegun Mimiko, former governor of Ondo state, and the Minister of Youth Development, Hon Ayodele Olawande.
Others were the state party executive and members APC.
