Political parties in Ondo State have been urged to zone the governorship position to Akure in the central senatorial district of the state.
A socio-political pressure group, the Ondo State Consultative Assembly (OSCA), made the call in a letter it wrote to President Bola Tinubu as well as the national chairmen of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Labour Party (LP) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
The group, in the letter signed by its president, Dr Bolarinwa Omotosho and General Secretary, Mrs Odunola Ogunmola-Daini, said it was only Akure, among all the major ethnic groups in the state, that had never produced a democratically elected governor since the creation of Ondo.
It specifically appealed to the political parties to zone their governorship tickets to the old Akure Division comprising Ilara, Igbaraoke, Ijare, Ipogun, Iju, Itaogbolu, Oba and Idanre.
The letter read in part: “It has become expedient to let the powers that be know the gravity of the injustice being visited on the Akure-speaking communities and towns in the Central Senatorial District of Ondo State since the return to democratic rule in 1999 and much earlier.
“The marginalization of the Akure people has become palpable over the years despite all the support that the people of Akure have given to their brothers and sisters from other parts of the state.”
