The two candidates were locked in a governorship debate organised by Channels TV in Akure on Sunday ahead of the 16 November governorship election.
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Mr Agboola stressed that he had information that the governor withdrew the amount in the week of the Edo State governorship election, despite the hardship the Ondo people were going through. “If you say it is not N1.2 billion, tell us how much you collected as security votes, if it is N2, tell us,” Mr Ajayi said.
The candidates, however, admitted that the state has security challenges and that they would work out strategies to strengthen the existing network to make the state safer.On the economy, Mr Ajayi said the state government had continued to allow the state to run without any industry, raising the state’s level of poverty.Mr Aiyedatiwa, however, disagreed, saying there were already existing industries that had granted jobs to residents in the past few years.
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