The All Progressives Congress candidate for the October 10 governorship election in Ondo State will emerge today (Monday) at a primary election.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and 10 other aspirants will be vying for the coveted ticket.
Besides Akeredolu, other aspirants are Olusola Oke, Segun Abraham, Olaide Adelami, Bukola Adetula, Jumoke Anifowose, Sola Iji, Isaac Kekemeke, Jimi Odimayo, Nathaniel Adojutelegan and Awodeyi Akinsehinwa.
On Sunday, however, some aspirants engaged in last-minute talks aimed at forming an alliance against Akeredolu.
The party had last month disclosed that it would adopt indirect primary to pick its governorship candidate, but 11 aspirants in a memo they jointly signed kicked against it.
The Chairman of the Primary Committee and Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Friday turned down the request of the aspirants, saying they could not dictate to the party.
It was gathered that there might be last-minute alliance among the aspirants as several meetings were going on among the party leaders and the aspirants to reduce the number of aspirants so that most popular aspirant would get the ticket of the party.
Rahman Yusuf, spokesperson for Adelami, one of the aspirants, confirmed that his boss had met with many party leaders.
On Sunday, it was learnt that many of the aspirants, who were active at the initial stage of the preparation for the primary, were said to have lost confidence in getting the desired victory at the primary following the alleged imposition of the indirect primary.
An aide to one of the aspirants, on condition of anonymity, informed one of our correspondents that his boss knew he had lost the primary already, alleging that the national secretariat of the party had concluded plans to give Akeredolu the ticket of the party.
