All Progressives Congress (APC), chieftain, high chief Mufutau Abolade has urged the Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, to give attention to votes from the non-Awori settlements in Ado-Odo/Ota local government area.
Abolade, who is the Sobaloju of Sango said the approach will enable Governor Abiodun to win the forthcoming governorship election in the council.
The APC chieftain told newsmen at Ota, Ogun State that it was the party’s mistake of not according due recognition to people of Sango and other non-Awori settlements in the council in the 2019 governorship elections that resulted in the party’s loss to the All Peoples Movement (APM).
He said it was an indisputable fact that non-Aworis form the majority in Ado-Odo/Ota local government area and therefore, counselled the governor and other APC leaders in the state not to fall prey to the deception by some people in the area that the votes of the non-Aworis were inconsequential and that they can deliver the council without the non-Aworis’ votes.
The Sango high chief also urged the governor to do an independent finding to ascertain the veracity of his position on the non-Aworis, stressing that Abiodun would be amazed that those with the highest number of votes in Ado-Odo/Ota council are the non-Aworis, who are in the majority and settled in Sango, Ijoko, Atan, Iju, Abule Iroko, Agoro, Mesan, Mosafejo, Sowole, Soga, Ijemo, Isaga, among others.
Abolade, however, advised some politicians of Aworis descent in the council to desist from threatening that only their votes could win the elections for the APC and that if the governor implements any programme that would impact on the lives of the non-Aworis, they won’t cast their votes for him and the APC.
He pleaded with Abiodun to “give to Caesar whatever is due to Caesar” and not continue to deny the non – Aworis, who are mostly the Egbas, Igbiras, Eguns, Anagos and the Yewals, their rights and privileges.
