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Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo, has expressed that he won\u2019t have any objection if Peter Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), wins the 2023 election.<\/p>\n
Akeredolu spoke on Wednesday in an interview on Channels Television.<\/p>\n
Akeredolu is a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Bola Tinubu, former Lagos governor, is the presidential candidate of the party.<\/p>\n
Asked if he would have supported a Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket if he was in the opposition party, the Ondo governor said religion should not be an issue in the 2023 elections.<\/p>\n
Also Read:\u00a0Presidency Must Come To South In 2023 \u2013 Akeredolu<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI would have said the same thing. If you had listened to my lecture today, I was very clear. I said that religion is not the issue now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have other issues that should be on the front burner today in this country \u2014 issue of restructuring, issue of rotational presidency, among others.<\/p>\n \u201cI said, \u2018look, since 1999, there is an understanding that we will move from north to south \u2014 rotate the presidency\u2019. And if today, we have people who want to deploy what I call manipulation of our people on religious basis to think that they can change this (call for southern presidency), then we should not accept it.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, it is not because of asiwaju Bola Tinubu. If you listened to my lecture, I said if Obi is elected as president, for me, that will be all right. If Bola Tinubu is elected, that will be all right. For me, it must come to the south; that is the position.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Akeredolu Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo, has expressed that he won\u2019t have any objection if Peter Obi, presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), wins the 2023 election. Akeredolu spoke on Wednesday in an interview on Channels Television. Akeredolu is a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Bola Tinubu, former Lagos governor, is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1175215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}