Fisayo Falodi
The All Progressives Congress
governorship aspirant in Ondo State, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), has
accused the state governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, of impoverishing the
people of the state.
He alleged that the governor had misapplied his administation’s ideas.
Akeredolu said Mimiko’s seven years in office had been a curse, instead of being a blessing to the people.
The former Nigerian Bar Association
president also accused the governor of planning to create a crisis in
the state by setting one political party against another.
According to him, Mimiko lacks the
political wisdom and native intelligence to harness the abundant
resources of the state for the economic well-being of the people.
Akeredolu, who addressed journalists in
Lagos, said, “Mimiko is intelligent, but he misapplied his intelligence
to the detriment of the people of Ondo State.
“We have an army of graduates who are
not working. Let the governor point to what he has done to create jobs
for 1,000 people in the last seven years. He claimed he was doing
something about agriculture, but it is unfortunate that the place he set
up to train youths in agricultural practice has been abandoned; the
place is a bush now.
“Of course, agriculture is one of the
ways to create jobs for the youths, but Mimiko’s misapplication of
resources has left the place unproductive.
He also flayed the governor for
allegedly abandoning the Ondo State University of Science and
Technology, Okitipupa, for selfish reasons.
Akeredolu said, “Why for seven years
would a governor leave a university unfunded and now rush there at the
twilight of his administration? Because Mimiko wants a university in
Ondo town, he now abandoned an existing university. You don’t have to
cripple an existing infrastructure because you want to establish another
one; that decision does not make sense.”
But Mimiko dismissed Akeredolu’s allegations as false. He asked the former NBA president to justify the claims with facts.
The governor, who spoke through his
Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Eni Akinsola, said Akeredolu raised false
allegations because of his governorship ambition.
Akinsola said, “I am not surprised that
Akeredolu said such things; we are not interested in taking issues with
him. We are only interested in running Ondo State with the meager
resources we have.
“In this era of serious economy crisis,
the governor just inaugurated today a 27-kilometre road in Ajagba in the
Irele Local Government Area. In the next two weeks, the governor will
also inaugurate a reconstructed school and a mega school in that area.
“Again, he will inaugurate a township
road in Ore. And Akeredolu is from Owo and he cannot deny that there is a
dual carriage road constructed by Mimiko’s government in his town.”
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