Ondo State Governor-Elect, Rotimi Akeredolu says he would rather focus on his mandate and proposed plans for the state, than probe the past administration, adding that his election victory was a manifestation of God’s power.

Reacting to the conduct and outcome of the election in Akure on Monday, the APC candidate said that he was surprised by the margin of votes between him and his closest rivals. He polled 244, 842 votes to beat his closest rival, Eyitayo Jegede of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 150, 380 votes, while Mr Olusola Oke of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) followed with 126, 889 votes.

Akeredolu said “What has happened in this election is quite beyond my personal expectations but then it is a case of saying we cannot limit God – I want to believe it is God-given victory to the people of Ondo state. What was beyond my imagination was the magnitude – the number of votes we scored vis-a-vis what two other contestants scored. I never believed that the margin would be that wide.”

Speaking on the possibility of probing the state’s accounts, the Governor-elect said that he has no plans of probing the state’s account neither does he have the intention of investigating the past government, adding that he would rather focus on his mission for the state. He said “I don’t believe in probes. What I believe in is that I’ve been given a mandate to govern the state and when I come into office I will face the task. The past is the past and I am one person who believes that government is a continuum.”

Explaining how he will make good his promise to revive industrialisation in the state, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu said “I used the word revamp when I was talking about the educational infrastructures and co, but when it comes to the issue of industries, I have argued during my campaign that people use the word wrongly.

“They say to us some industries are moribund (but) most of these industries are dead. So, it is not easy to wake up a dead person and just like an industry, you cannot wake them up. The important thing is that industrialization is important to us and we are going to have to get as many people as are interested. We have the sand for glass industry in the south. It is not necessary we have to go back to Oluwa Industry, the furnace there is already old and the technology there is no longer in use.

“So all we need is to have people come. We will provide the enabling environment for them and they can start another one. It might be in the same premises. We have industry on ceramics in Ifon. We are thinking about what we have on cement and I know that in the next few weeks, many more will come,” He assured.

Akerdolu also said that foreign investors have been approaching him to invest in the state even before the election and he was sure that with an enabling environment a lot of development would be achieved in Ondo state.