Governor Rotimi Akeredolu

The government of Ondo state has reacted to the statement made by the national chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress, Sen Abdullahi Adamu.

The chairman stated that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu who is currently on indefinite medical leave abroad is extremely incapacitated.

Adamu made the claim on Monday, July 10, during a meeting between the national leadership of the party and APC state chairmen in Abuja.

Reacting to this, Ondo state’s commissioner for information and Orientation, Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, stated that the APC national chairman was quoted out of context.

The statement read;

“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, 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.

“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.

“Mr. Governor is NOT incapacitated. He will return to his duty as soon as the doctors certify him fully fit to do so.”