The Ondo State Secretary to the Government, Princess Oladunni Odu, has refuted online media reports claiming she had a confrontation with Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa and labeled him an impostor.
Princess Odu also warned against involving President Bola Tinubu in state political issues.
Odu, in a statement issued in Akure, said it was saddening that the online news platform and its financiers plot to fan crisis in a state.
The SSG stated it was disgusting to read that she threatened to throw Governor Ayedatiwa out of office with President Tinubu’s backing.
She said it was a deliberate attempt to give the president, and father of the nation a very bad impression of her.
Princess Odu urged Governor Aiyedatiwa to conduct integrity test on members of the State Executive Council to fish out those who misrepresent facts about events at the meetings of the Council to avoid a situation whereby they would destroy his administration.
Princess Odu advised Governor Aiyedatiwa to carry out an integrity test on members of the State Executive Council to identify those misrepresenting facts about council meetings.
She said the measure would prevent any potential harm to his administration.
Odu noted: “The report that I threatened to throw the Governor out of office because I have President Tinubu’s backing can only come from someone who has no knowledge about the way governance works.
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“How do you throw out a Governor who has committed no obvious offense against the constitution. If the online platform knows of any constitutional infraction committed by the Governor to warrant him being thrown out, the online news platform should say so but as for me I don’t know any.”
“As someone who understands Mr President’s respect for order, and who has enormous respect for the office and person of the President, i would never even think of bringing him into any matter that will be a mere distraction to him even if there is any, and in any case where is the power tussle that the online news is talking about?”
“Honourable Lucky Ayedatiwa is the Governor, and that is not in dispute. Also I have enormous respect for the office of Governor and will always respect Governor Ayedatiwa who is my brother.”
Odu who assured that she will do her work diligently and responsibly till her last day in office, pointed out that Ondo state is bigger than anyone and that she will not be a party to bringing the state down.
“Those who wish to cause crisis in the state should remember that posterity will judge them, and the spirit of the founding fathers of the state will stand against them.”
Odu described as laughable the claim that she called the Governor an impostor, stressing that she is too educated to use words with no bearing to a conversation.
She added: “Why would any right thinking person call Mr Lucky Ayedatiwa who was duly sworn in as Governor by the Chief Judge of the state an impostor? Again I say that if the online platform knows what qualifies Ayedatiwa as an impostor it is free to let it out but I am not an illiterate who will use words without knowing the meaning”
