Agboola Ajayi

On 25th February 2021, Akeredolu and Aiyedatiwa were sworn into office as Governor and Deputy Governor of ondo state respectively. [1]

On 21 June 2020, Ajayi resigned his membership from the ruling party APC and defected to the opposition party People's Democratic Party (PDP), citing irreconcilable issues between him and his Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) and that the APC party 'has become a poisoned space'.

He was the 2020 gubernatorial candidate of Ondo State in Zenith Labour Party led by former governor Olusegun Mimiko.

But on Saturday 20 June 2020, following the order from the Governor, the police commissioner of Ondo State (CP Bolaji Salami) and his armed policemen restricted and barred Ajayi from leaving his official residence in the Government House for over four hours; and when he finally gained his freedom he went straight to his Apoi Ward 2 in Ese-Odo LGA to tender his resignation from the APC party and thereafter crossed over to the PDP ward office to register his new membership.

On 23 June 2020, two days after his defection to PDP, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu ordered that all Ajayi's seven aides be withdrawn, including the two aides assigned to the wife of the embattled deputy governor.

He contested the October 2020 Governorship election in Ondo Election with Gboye Adegbenro as his running mate.

Ajayi is no stranger to controversies, as in 2019 he was accused of having lied to gain admission into the Nigerian Law School while he was still in a full-time employment with the Nigerian Government.

Ajayi started his political career under the platform of Social Democratic Party (SDP) and became the chairman of SDP in Old Opoi Ward 1 from 1988 to 1998. He later joined People's Democratic Party (PDP) in 1998 and was made the Secretary of PDP in Ilaje/Ese Odo LGA between 1998 and 1999. He was later made the Supervisor for Agriculture for Ese-Odo LGA from 1999 to 2001 and subsequently appointed as Supervisor for Works and Transport for Ese-Odo LGA from 2001 to 2003. He then went on to become the Caretaker Chairman of Ese Odo LGA between 2003 and 2004 before he was finally elected as the chairman of Ese-Odo LGA from 2004 to 2007. He also served as former member of the Federal House of Representatives and represented Ilaje/Ese Odo federal constituency under the PDP. During his time in the House of Rep., Ajayi served as the chairman House Committee on NDDC from 2007 to 2010. Ajayi later decamped from PDP to APC and contested election as the running mate to Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) in the Ondo State Governorship election in November 2016 under the platform of APC. The pair won the election and were sworn in as governor and deputy governor of Ondo State on 24 February 2017. On Sunday 11 October 2020, Akeredolu and Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa were re-elected Governor and deputy governor of Ondo State as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

Alfred Agboola Ajayi (born 24 September 1968) is a Nigerian politician, lawyer, and businessman. He is a former Deputy Governor of Ondo State and was elected into office on 26 November 2016 as running mate to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) under the All Progressive Congress (APC). He was succeeded by Hon. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa following the victory of Governor Akeredolu in the 2020 Ondo State gubernatorial election.

Ajayi was born on 24 September 1968 to Chief Newton Ajayi and Mrs Rebecca Ogunjinte (née Olubusade). He hails from Kiribo Town of Western Apoi tribe in the Ese Odo 'Local Government Area' (LGA) of Ondo State. He attended Community High School in Kiribo Town and later moved to Methodist High School in Okitipupa LGA. He then went on to study Law degree at Igbinedion University, Okada in Edo State and graduated with Bachelor of Law (LL.B) at 2nd Class Upper division; and subsequently received his Call to the bar in 2010 after graduating from the Nigerian Law School in Abuja.