Ondo
State governor-elect has reacted to an online report which alleged that
the Minister of Mines and Steel Development paid N1 billion to the
incoming governor to appoint his wife as SSG.
Ondo state APC Governor-Elect, Rotimi Akeredolu and his wife, Betty in jubilation.
In an official statement by Yemi Olowolabi, the Ondo state
Gov-elect's media adviser, Rotimi Akeredolu has refuted an allegation of
an online report which stated that the Minister of Mines and Steel
Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, paid N1billion to the incoming governor
to appoint his wife, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, as Secretary to the State
Government, SSG, in Ondo State.
According to DailyPost, the governor-elect stated that the tone of
the allegation represented the stream of earlier ones being launched in
Ekiti State against former Governor, Kayode Fayemi, stressing that “acrimonious, wicked and irresponsible publications have no place in Ondo State politics.”
An online platform had alleged that Erelu Fayemi donated
trailer-loads of rice to Akeredolu during the campaign while the
minister donated N1bn to the APC candidate to enable him pressure the
governor-elect to seek SSG position for his wife in form of
compensation.
However, Akeredolu denied receiving such donations from any one,
including the Fayemis, urging mischief-makers to leave the minister and
his wife out of unfounded allegations aimed at tarnishing their names.
The statement read; “It is regrettable that some lazy and
irresponsible individuals can just sit down in a corner to cook wicked
allegations against innocent people.
“This trend of allegations against Fayemi started in Ekiti
State after Captain Sagir Koli revealed in an audio tape how Governor
Ayodele Fayose allegedly stole himself to power through treason, which
the governor denied until principal actors started confessing to the
crime.
“Since then, there has been a trend in which Fayemi is painted
as a super rich who donated N1.5b to President Muhammadu Buhari’s
election campaign and now N1b to Akeredolu from his bottomless pocket as
if a billion naira is what can be wrapped in an envelope and dashed out
as a gift.
“Neither Fayemi nor his wife has ever demanded any position
from Akeredolu. Both Fayemi and Akeredolu abhor such as activists. In
fact, the woman is at present preoccupied with her women advocacy job
around the world, so much that she would have no time for local
political activities.”
Asking mischief-makers to leave the Fayemis out of the pains of rejection at poll, Olowolabi said:
“We appreciate the fact that the pains of post-defeat trauma can be
debilitating and sometimes malignant, such trauma should not degenerate
into taking away our humanity to launch wicked lies against innocent
people.
“Or is it not laughable that some irresponsible irritants would
present a picture allegedly in Ondo State that Fayemi’s wife used to
attend night club in Ado-Ekiti and would want decent people to believe
such a disingenuous and senseless allegation when it is common knowledge
that Erelu Bisi Fayemi is a world-class woman of grace and honour,
completely unsusceptible to the antics and pleasure principle of
merry-makers in government who have turned the Government House to a
play-house for revellers and sensualists.
“Fayemi has no millions let alone billion to be given out for
an election victory that can go either way and he and his wife have
never, never spoken to Akeredolu about ceding any position to anyone.
Neither has Erelu Fayemi spoken about any senatorial ambition.
“The devious plot to present a malicious story as coming from
APC in Ondo State is not only condemnable, it is also a shame to the
writers who have shown themselves as lacking in integrity, honour and
grit to squarely resolve the problems that plague them instead of
maligning innocent people to vent their anger over election loss.”
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