The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Adamu, has disclosed that the ailing governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, is extremely incapacitated and hospitalized abroad.
Mr Adamu disclosed this during a meeting between the national leadership of the party and APC state chairmen in Abuja on Monday.
“We regret to announce the extreme incapacity of the governor of Ondo State, who we understand has been hospitalised overseas,” Mr Adamu said.
“We wish and pray for him for a speedy recovery,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Ondo State government has distanced itself from the purported comment by Mr Adamu, saying that the report was sponsored by ‘desperate politicians’.
The state commissioner for Information Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, in a statement on Tuesday, said the statement bore a tinge of the usual mischievous, wicked and insensitive reportage.
Mr Olateju noted that the Ondo APC Chairman, Ade Adetimehin, who attended the meeting, debunked the statement credited to Mr Adamu as untrue.
He Mr Adamu was indeed excited at the reports on the rate of recovery of the Governor Akeredolu and urged all those present at the meeting to pray for his quick return.
The commissioner said: “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 Chairman mention that the Governor was in a state of “extreme incapacity”.
“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.
“Mr. Governor is not incapacitated. He will return to his duty as soon as the doctors certify him fully fit to do so.”
