APC NEC: Akeredolu Alleged Suspension A Sham Ondo Govt

Akure – The alleged suspension of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State by the National Executive Council (NEC) of All Progressives Congress (APC) may be a sham as the governor reportedly attended two separate meetings held by national Secretariat of the party on Friday night.

A statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo and made available to DAILY INDEPENDENT in Akure, the state capital, revealed that that governor attended two meetings held by the party’s NEC in Abuja.

The statement reads in parts: “The Ondo State Government is compelled to clarify certain insinuations as series of layer meetings ended this evening with that of NEC.

“Needless to recall that Governor Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu SAN attended both which of course included that of the National Caucus at the Presidential Villa.

“It is perhaps preposterous and conscionable impossible to allow someone under supposed suspension into a meeting as critical as that of the APC NEC.”

Ojogo described the suspension rumour as the handiwork of some individuals who are not qualified to attend the NEC meetings.

According to him, “These are self-idolising hypothesis by those who are disappointed by their own expectations.

However, while the Government is not in any way surprised by the outright misrepresentations labourously orchestrated, it is apt to say that such are indeed pedestrian and untoward. This is more so that sponsors of such did not attend these layers of meetings.”

He, however, reasoned that the two meetings of the national leadership of the party attended by Governor Akeredolu on Friday made nonsense of the rumoured suspension, calling on the party faithful and people of the state to ignore the suspension rumour.

Ojogo said: Specifically,  a section of the media has been fed with outright falsehood that Governor Akeredolu was asked not to attend the meetings. The fact that he was at both meetings repudiates the incorrect narratives intended to create disunity in the APC.

“This, no doubt, is rehearsal failure on the part of those promoting such insinuations. Ignore them.”