The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Abdullahi Adamu never said ailing Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State was in a state of extreme incapacity.
National Secretary of the party Iyiola Omisore made the denial in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja where he also said Senator Abdullahi Adamu was rather “excited at the reports on the rate of recovery of the Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.
According to Omisore, Akeredolu was not in any critical state that should warrant what he described as reprehensible conduct, saying Akeredolu even sent a post to the Executive Council Committee platform yesterday (Tuesday).
Omisore said the APC chairman also asked those who attended the Executive Council Meeting to pray for Akeredolu’s quick return.
Traditional and social media on Tuesday reported Senator Abdullahi Adamu saying the ailing Ondo state governor was in a state of extreme incapacity.
The media reports quoted the APC leader as making the remark during the EXCO meeting held in Abuja on Tuesday.
Omisore not only described the reports headlined “Akeredolu in state of extreme incapacity, hospitalised” as false, but “bore a tinge of the usual mischievous, wicked and insensitive reportage sponsored by desperate politicians.”
He said the reports “smacks of mischief, and unabashed abandonment of professional ethics for a reporter to present this gross misrepresentation, a mischievous twist, as news.”
The APC Scribe said Akeredolu is not incapacitated, adding that he will return to his duty as soon as doctors certify him fully fit to do so.
He, therefore, urged the public to ignore the news, saying it only existed “in the realm of the imagination of the workers of iniquity.”
Similarly, the Acting Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, says Governor Akeredolu is recuperating in a hospital abroad.
Aiyedatiwa who revealed this on Tuesday in Akure, in reaction to some media reports he tagged: ‘faceless writers to fan ember of unity in the state”, said he was in touch with Akeredolu on Sunday when he expressed appreciation to him and other State Executive Council Members for holding the fort while he is away.
