Afrigather The Ondo State deputy governor, Dr. Olayide Adelami, has denied being a sworn enemy to the late governor of the state, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.
Adelami was reacting to the declare by the Ondo State All Progressives Congress (APC) Caucus within the Home of Representatives in a letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, alleging that he was a sworn enemy of late Governor Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu.
He mentioned he would have ignored the “utter hokum however it’s crucial to set the file straight for the studying viewers, particularly seeing a current publication by some part of the media.”
In an announcement issued by Adelami’s chief press secretary, John Paul Akinduro, on Friday, the deputy governor mentioned: “the oft-repeated fallacy that His Excellency, Governor Fortunate Orimisan Aiyedatiwa hobnobs with Late Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s sworn enemies is changing into excessively irksome and prattle.”
Adelami additional acknowledged, “For the avoidance of doubt, this concocted and malicious assertion is just not solely unfaithful in its entirety however a mischief by these ‘honorable’.
“Chief Adelami was by no means an enemy of the late governor nor every other political participant in Ondo state or elsewhere. The Deputy Governor is an honest politician and philanthropist with verifiable observe data.
“It’s instructive to notice that Chief Adelami has at all times been a robust member of the APC and staunch supporter and reliable ally of late Governor Akeredolu for eons.
“Worthy of point out is the truth that the deputy governor gave ethical, political, and monetary help to the late governor in the course of the electioneering campaigns, resulting in his first and second phrases in workplace and, subsequently rendered the identical help all by means of his tenure as governor of Ondo state.
“It is usually exceptional that after shedding the governorship primaries to the late Arakunrin Akeredolu, SAN in 2020, Chief Adelami joined the marketing campaign practice and walked alongside the late governor as he moved across the 18 Native Authorities Areas of Ondo state. This can’t be the identical Adelami and Akeredolu the deceptive assertion described as ‘they didn’t see eye to eye’
“On file, was the donation of 5,000 copies of the APC structure to the occasion, branding of Face caps and T-shirts with the inscription ‘Adelami Assist Group for Aketi’, amongst many different gadgets, which had been acquired by the occasion chieftains, led by the State Chairman, Engr Ade Adetimehin, to help the re-election marketing campaign of the late governor in 2020.
“Additionally on the bottom to witness the handing over of these things was the late Governor, his then working mate, Rt. Hon. Victor Olabimtan, Ambassador Sola Iji, Hon. Ifedayo Abegunde (Abena), Chief Gbenga Ale, and Hon. Timehin Adelegbe, whose signature additionally appeared within the printed caucus letter.
“These details are properly established and accessible within the public area as evidenced by one of many press releases authored by the Late Governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Richard Olatunde, on September 16, 2020, titled ‘ONDO 2020: ADELAMI HANDS OVER CAMPAIGN OFFICE, STRUCTURE TO GOVERNOR AKEREDOLU’ with the rider, ‘No Emptiness in Alagbaka, Our Unity Unprecedented within the Historical past of Political Events – Gov Akeredolu’
“Nonetheless, because the governorship election attracts nigh, it’s not unusual to expertise such a political tendency and pull-him-down syndrome by some detractors, who’re threatened by the mix of Governor Aiyedatiwa and his Deputy, Chief Adelami, to pilot the affairs of the sunshine state.
“We urge the great folks of Ondo state and fellow Nigerians to proceed to help the APC-led, forward-thinking authorities of His Excellency, Fortunate Orimisan Aiyedatiwa. In order that Ondo state will proceed to flourish.”
