Toluwani Borokini, son of Most Reverend Simeon Borokini, the Anglican Bishop of Akure Diocese and Archbishop of Ondo Ecclesiastical Province, lost at the polls after his father washed his hands off his political ambition.
Toluwani, a member of the Ondo State House of Assembly representing Akure, South Constituency 1 under the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC, had sought re-election into the Ondo State House of Assembly on Saturday. However, he lost to his opponent, Oguntodu Olajide Johnson, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. This development is coming after Toluwani’s father clearly disapproved of his aspiration.
Rev Borokini publicly declared that he will not support his son’s ambition to contest for an elective position this year. According to him, he will not involve himself in partisan politics because of his calling. He added that he had warned his son about this even before he went for first term in office. Being one of the highest-ranking clerics in the Anglican Church, the Bishop revealed that his congregants belonged to different political parties and it wouldn’t speak well of him as a cleric to support his son alone while neglecting his church members.
Borokini, who had some time ago conferred the title of Baba Ijo of the Anglican Church, Ondo on the Deputy Governor of the state, Eyitayo Jegede, who belongs to the opposition, PDP argued that if he had opted to support his son, he would have been biased about the title given to Jegede, adding that he might have lost his position as a Bishop of the Anglican Communion as well. The public disapproval of his son must have affected the turn-out of Toluwani’s supporters and outcome of the election which took place on Saturday.
