Ondo election: Drama as Akeredolu refuses to shake his deputy, Agboola Ajayi during peace meeting

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There was a mild drama on Tuesday at an event to sign a peace accord as part of the efforts to ensure the exercise is violence-free in the Saturday’s governorship election in Ondo State.

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Eyitayo Jegede, and the Zenith Labour Party’s candidate and deputy governor of the state, Mr Agboola Ajayi, together with the candidates of other parties signed the accord.

It was gathered that at the conclusion of the event as Akeredolu refused to shake hands with the deputy governor, Ajayi

The Master of Ceremony had asked the three major candidates to embrace, shake hands or bump elbows with one another as a sign that they had embraced peace.

Akeredolu greeted PDP’s candidate, Jegede, by bumping elbow with him as requested by MC but when it was the turn of his deputy, the governor refused to shake hands with or embrace him.

Instead, Akeredolu just waved at Ajayi.