A former Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Hon Agboola Ajayi, has rejected the outcome of the senatorial election declared for the Ondo South senatorial district.

Ajayi stated that the results available from the various wards where the election took place did not align with the results declared by the Returning Officer (RO) of the election, Comrade Tunde Monehin.

In a statement titled “Setting the Record Straight,” Ajayi expressed optimism that he was the person who was supposed to be declared a winner in the primary election.

He said, “We need to alert the public that the result so declared is not a true reflection of what transpired on the field during the election.

“Our agents in all the wards and local government areas in the district, having observed the primary election in their various domains, turned in their results to our collation committee, and after careful and painstaking collation by us, we detected a very sharp difference from what was declared at the Senatorial headquarters in Okitipupa yesterday.

“The full and detailed results from all the wards are with us, but in line with our great party, APC, National Secretariat directive, we have decided to step down the detailed results for now and explore our internal party machinery in resolving this knotty issue with our party leaders and stakeholders.

“But it should be noted that the primary election result in Ondo South Senatorial District announced by the Comrade Monehin-panel is not the true wishes of the majority of APC members in our Senatorial district who came out in large numbers on Monday to vote in the direct primary election.

“We now wonder how the Comrade Monehin-led collation panel arrived at the results announced on Monday evening ( 18th May, 2026) at Okitipupa, as it goes beyond all forms of logic and democratic transparency.

“Our collated results are with us and intact, it can be presented to the National Secretariat of our great party if there is any need for it.”