Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has ordered his newly appointed 1,000 political aides to mobilise a minimum of one million votes for President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 elections.
Aiyedatiwa gave the directive during separate consultative meetings held with Senior Special Assistants(SSAs) and Special Assistants(SAs) at the Dr Olusegun Mimiko Event Centre, The Dome, and the Cocoa Conference Hall, Governor’s Office, Akure on Friday.
The governor instructed the appointees to mobilise massively in their communities for the reelection of the President and all candidates of the APC.
“Our party leader, our President is a flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, and Senator Kashim Shettima is vice. We must return them. That is the only way we can retain power.
“We have declared one million votes minimum. We must meet that target. The work belongs to all of us, and all that is needed to ensure that we hit that target will be provided, will be made available,” he said.
Aiyedatiwa emphasised the need for the ruling party to retain power at the federal level by securing a massive victory for the President.
In addition to the electoral mandate, the governor urged the officials to closely monitor government infrastructure projects across all eighteen local government areas.
He charged them to provide regular, detailed feedback on project implementation and report any observed shortcomings for prompt official intervention.
Specifically, Aiyedatiwa urged the appointees to inspect ongoing road construction and actively publicise the quality of work delivered by contractors in their respective domains.
Moreover, he disclosed that every local government area has already been allocated between five and six kilometres of new roads under the current administration’s comprehensive construction programme.
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