The Ondo State government has denied a statement attributed to the All Progressive Congress (APC) national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, that stated Governor Rotimi Akeredolu was gravely ill and hospitalized abroad.
The report was deemed “wicked, mischievous, and insensitive” by the government.
Adamu is said to have made the statement during a meeting between the party’s national leadership and APC state chairmen on Monday in Abuja.
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Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, the state’s commissioner for information and orientation, replied quickly to the allegations.
Ademola-Olateju suggested in a statement made in Akure, the state capital, that Adamu was taken out of context.
The commissioner clarified in the statement that “At no time did the Chairman mention that the Governor was in a state of ‘extreme incapacity’.”
The statement reads, “The attention of Ondo State government has been drawn to a report, credited to the Chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, in the 11th July, 2023.
”The headline, “Akeredolu in state of extreme incapacity, hospitalised”, bore a tinge of the usual mischievous, wicked and insensitive reportage, sponsored by desperate politicians.
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“The Chairman of the APC in Ondo State, Engineer Ade Adetimehin, who attended the meeting, has debunked the report as untrue and totally disconnected from the statement of the Chairman at the event.
“The National Chairman was indeed excited at the reports on the rate of recovery of the Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, CON, and urged all those present at the meeting to pray for his quick return.
“It, therefore, smacks of mischief and unabashed abandonment of professional ethics for a reporter to present this gross misrepresentation, a mischievous twist, as news.
“At no time did the Chairman mention that the Governor was in a state of “extreme incapacity”.
“He is, evidently, not in any critical state that should warrant this clearly reprehensible conduct as he still sent a post to the Executive Council Committee platform yesterday.
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“Members of the public are advised to ignore this news as the contents therein exist in the realm of the imagination of workers of iniquity.”
The commissioner declared that “Mr Governor is NOT incapacitated. He will return to his duty as soon as the doctors certify him fully fit to do so.”
Remember that the governor wrote to the state assembly on Monday, requesting an extension of his medical leave.
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