Sen. Ayo Akinyelure has emerged as the senatorial candidate that will fly the Peoples Democratic Party’s, PDP, flag for the Ondo Central Senatorial District during the 2019 general elections.
In the keenly contested primary election that saw the emergence of Sen. Akinyelure, delegates across the wards of the six local government (Ondo West, Ondo East, Akure North, Akure South, Ifedore and Idanre) that made up the senatorial district in their larger trooped to the venues of the election to vote for their preferred as aspirant through an indirect method.
Sen. Akinyelure, polled a total of 338 votes to emerged victorious while his closest rival, the former deputy governor of the state, Omolade Oluwateru (Akure South local government) garnered 253 votes, with the third aspirant Olabisi Johnson (Ondo West local government) securing 63 votes. The party’s electoral officer, Bamido Omogbehin, who announced the result stated that a total of 657 was recorded with 3 void votes.
The primary election which was conducted in Akure, the Ondo State capital was witnessed by observers from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the national body of the party as well as security operatives.
Sen. Akinyelure, who represented the senatorial district in the upper chamber of the National Assembly on the PDP platform from 2012 to 2015, will be facing other senatorial candidates, at the next year’s polls, particularly the incumbent, senator, Tayo Alasoadura of the APC who defeated him in 2015.
After he lost the election to Sen. Alasoadura in 2015, Akinyelure defected to the APC before returning to the PDP some months back after resigning his appointment as the Chairman of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency.

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