The National Working Committee, NWC of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has granted a waiver to the Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi in order for him to contest the governorship ticket of the party slated for July 22, 2020.

The waiver came following Ajayi’s applicication sent to the NWC requesting him to participate in the forthcoming PDP primaries.

The approval was contained in a letter received by the Deputy Governor on July 2, 2020, which was signed by both the PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus and the party’s National Secretary, Senator Umaru Ibrahim Tsauri.

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According to the letter, the NWC found that Ajayi met all the relevant provisions of the party’s Constitution, particularly section 50(5)(b) (as amended in 2017) for granting of waivers.

On June 21, 2020, Ajayi quit the APC following months of a frosty relationship with his boss, after which he picked the membership card of the PDP.

The Deputy Governor disclosed that he will not resign from office, shortly after he resigned from APC, stressing that the people who gave him the mandate did not ask him to resign as a Deputy Governor.