The Ondo state government has refuted and criticised a media allegation attributed to All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman Abdullahi Adamu that the state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, is hospitalised due to serious incapacity.
It will be recalled that a national daily stated that the APC Chairman, Adamu, declared that the ailing Akeredolu was incapacitated and hospitalised during a meeting with APC state Chairmen.
In a statement, the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mrs Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, branded the story as “not only mischievous, but wicked and insensitive reportage sponsored by desperate politicians.”
The Information Commissioner argued that the news and its contents only exist in the depraved minds of those who put the publication together. She pleaded with the residents of the state and all of Nigeria to disregard the news story and its assertions, claiming that the National Chairman of the APC was misquoted.
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According to the statement: “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”
“The Chairman of the APC in Ondo State, Hon. 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, and urged all those present at the meeting to pray for his quick return.”
“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.
