Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa’s latest look on Channels Television’s Politics Today has drawn recent consideration to his relationship with Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, broadly generally known as BTO, forward of Ondo’s 2027 political cycle.
Speaking with host Seun Okinbaloye, Aiyedatiwa addressed the dynamic between the 2 APC heavyweights in notably formal phrases, framing their relationship round celebration construction relatively than private closeness.
“He is a member of my party,” Aiyedatiwa mentioned of Tunji-Ojo, including that he’s a minister and “we are all APC.”
The governor went additional, stressing his constitutional authority inside the state and primarily describing himself as governor and Tunji-Ojo as one in all his topics.
That phrasing has attracted some scrutiny. Rather than talking to private affinity, the governor centred his reply on workplaces and obligations, a alternative some observers learn as vital given the political stakes concerned.
Aiyedatiwa was equally direct when dismissing considerations concerning the African Democratic Congress gaining floor in Ondo, questioning whether or not the celebration’s emergence carried any actual electoral weight. According to him, politics is a sport of numbers, so till ADC really controls stuff, it won’t be handled as a reputable menace to established constructions.
Meanwhile, each Aiyedatiwa and Tunji-Ojo maintain vital energy inside Ondo’s APC. Aiyedatiwa instructions the state’s govt equipment and civil service, whereas Tunji-Ojo brings federal backing and what celebration loyalists describe as a formidable grassroots community constructed round his dwelling base.
A Federal High Court ruling has already discovered Aiyedatiwa ineligible for an additional time period because of constitutional limits, intensifying succession conversations inside the celebration nicely forward of 2027.
Grassroots mobilisation tied to Tunji-Ojo, together with the BTO Unit-to-Unit motion, has added to hypothesis a few quiet rivalry, at the same time as each camps publicly insist the connection stays cordial.
Whether Aiyedatiwa’s remarks are easy information about political establishments or one thing nearer to a cooling relationship stays, for now, a matter of interpretation relatively than confirmed truth.
