Akeredolu’s Obituary Posted Five Times by Power-Hungry Aspirants, Says Aide
The Senior Special Assistant on Special Duty to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, Dr. Doyin Odebowale, has lamented that the state was reduced to petty politics during the governor’s three-month medical leave in Germany.
Speaking on Channels TV programme on Wednesday evening, Odebowale said that the governor’s absence was exploited by some aspirants who wanted to contest and become the governor in the coming election.
He said that they circulated the governor’s obituary more than five times and created an impression that he had become completely incapacitated.
Odebowale also defended the governor’s decision to sack his deputy’s media crew, saying that only the governor and the deputy enjoy immunity and any other person is expendable. He said that the governor owed no one any explanation on what he wanted to do.
He added that the governor and the deputy still met a few days ago and there was no problem between them. He said that the governor was not interested in the petty politics that distracted his administration.
“I know that the governor and the deputy still met a few days ago. There is no problem at all. I don’t want to claim that what is happening in Edo State is what we are following. No, we are not following that.
“The governor is not interested in this petty politics that people have reduced the whole state to in his absence. When he was away, there was little of governance.
“People wanted to contest. They wanted to be governor. They want to be this and that. It is within their right but it was distracting us, and they were recruiting people to distract us. To be governor is not petty.
Odebowale said that the governor was still in charge of things and was sending transformers and calling people to fix them while he was in Germany.
He urged the people of Ondo State to focus on the development of the state and not on personal ambitions. He said that being a governor is not petty and requires dedication and service to the people.
“When he (Governor Akeredolu) was in Germany, he was asking people questions about things. He was sending transformers and he was calling them to go and fix it, contrary to the erroneous impression being conveyed that he was seriously incapacitated.
“As a member of this government, I was appalled at some of the things that happened. They were posting the obituaries of their father, not the governor more than five times, posting the governor’s obituary.
“They wanted power, power to do what? Not to serve the people? They were overheating the polity. They created the impression that the governor was not in charge of anything. They picked on the First Family, abusing everybody.
“I’m not saying that the deputy governor did but I’m saying that these people know themselves. So, no governor will sit down and watch that happen.”
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