Akeredolu’s 1st Term As Governor Triggered The People’s Trust In Him – Omowumi Olatunji

Popular APC Chieftain, Mrs Omowumi Olatunji-Ohwovoriole has come out to celebrate Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s victory at the Election Petition Tribunal.

She recently had her say via a statement issued in Akure, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to her, the victory is simply a reflection of the people’s will, and it is an affirmation of the overwhelming victory recorded in the Oct. 10 poll.

She added that the governor’s sterling performance of the governor during his first term in office made his second term in office possible.

Her words, “This is the reason the people of the state went into wild jubilations after the verdict of the tribunal.”

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Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, SAN, or Rotimi Akeredolu, (born 21 July 1956) is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who is also the Governor of Ondo State, Nigeria and also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) who became president of the Nigerian Bar Association in 2008.

Akeredolu was also a Managing Partner at the Law Firm of Olujinmi & Akeredolu, a Law Firm he co-founded with Chief Akin Olujinmi, a former Attorney General and Minister for Justice in Nigeria.

Akeredolu was born on 21 July 1956 in Owo to Reverend J. Ola Akeredolu of the Akeredolu family and Lady Evangelist Grace B. Akeredolu of Aderoyiju family of Igbotu, Ese Odo, in Ondo State. Akeredolu started his primary education at Government School, Owo. He proceeded to Aquinas College, Akure, Loyola College, Ibadan and Comprehensive High School, Ayetoro, for his secondary school education and Higher School Certificate, respectively.

His middle name “Odunayo” means “Year of happiness” in Yoruba He went on to the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) to study Law, graduating in 1977. He was called to the Nigerian Bar 1978.