•Our Chairman Never Said Any Of Sort – Senator Omisore
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has disclosed that the ailing Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, is incapacitated.
Adamu stated this at a meeting between the national leadership of the party and APC state chairmen.
Addressing the APC state chairmen, Adamu revealed that the governor was incapacitated and currently hospitalised overseas.
“We regret to announce the extreme incapacity of the governor of Ondo State who we understand has been hospitalized overseas. We wish and pray for him for a speedy recovery,” the chairman was quoted to have said.
The National Chairman was also reported to have said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is consulting extensively before drawing up his ministerial list.
“The President has just started. And he is doing his extensive consultation before coming up with his nominees for ministers.
“The nomination of the ministers will come first. They will go through their screening until they are pronounced after they have been submitted by Mr President. And Mr President will formally appoint his Ministers and swear them in.
“Only after doing that will he disclose each of them to the country to know which minister is going to which ministry, and how many ministries we are going to have,” he said.
Adamu’s revelation comes hours after Akeredolu, who is also the Chairman of the South-West Governor’s Forum, wrote to the state House of Assembly to extend his medical leave Indefinitely.
The governor, who has been in and out of hospitals, transmitted power to his deputy, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, last month.
He had said he would resume duty this week, but Akeredolu extended the medical leave indefinitely.
It is unclear the ailment he is battling, but his absence has changed the calculation for the 2024 governorship election.
Our Chairman Never Said Any Of Sort – Senator Omisore
Meanwhile, the National Secretary of the APC, Senator Iyiola Omisore has described as “mischievous, wicked and insensitive reportage, sponsored by desperate politicians”, the report as captured above.
In a statement the former Osun State deputy governor signed, he said: “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 National Chairman mention that the Governor was in a state of “extreme incapacity” in the meeting of 10th July 2023 or anytime for that matter.
“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”, the party’s scribe said in the statement titled Re: “Akeredolu in State of Extreme Incapacity, Hospitalised”
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