Ondo SSG Declares Interest In Taking Over From Akeredolu

The Secretary to the Government of Ondo State, Princess Oladunni Odu has declared her intention of becoming the next state governor in 2024.

Naija News gathered Odu on Thursday during an interactive session with members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Akure, disclosed her intention to contest next year’s governorship election in the state.

According to her, it would not be difficult to have a female as governor of the state and she remains the only aspirant with the requisite experience.

In her words, ”Let us test a woman. The trailblazing character of Ondo State will start from all of us to convince people, why they should look towards that direction.

”We are not just talking about anyhow woman but someone whom you have tried and tested. Somebody who has been around here, somebody who knows her onion, somebody who knows the system.

“Because I am bold to say that of all the people who have come out to be aspirants, none of them is as exposed to governance as myself.

”I have been around this place, in and out of governance in the last 27 years. So, I know what governance is.

“The men have done very well, I am not disputing that but all I am saying is that we should try women”

“A mother, a wife, a sister who has the compassion of motherhood in her. A woman who can’t hear the cry of her baby and turn a deaf ear.

“Somebody who knows her onion, somebody who will lift the state higher, somebody who is accessible, somebody who will be your own person, somebody who will listen to your plights and somebody who will actually work for the good of Ondo state.

“I am so confident that having the first female governor will not be a difficult thing. It depends on the people and their mindsets, the way we talk to people.

” If you as Journalists who have gone far and wide and see what happens in other climes, of you, keep telling people that it’s high time we make a woman the governor of the state.”