Ondo PDP, Gov’s Aide Trade Tackles Over Akeredolu’s Absence

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has described the reaction of an aide of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, Doyin Odebowale, that the party cannot force the governor to come out or resume work as illogical.

The party’s protesters had given Akeredolu a 24-hour ultimatum to address the people of the state and return to his office in three days.

In a response to the PDP’s demand during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Tuesday,  Odebowale had said, “The so-called youths of the PDP think they have the right to move to the street and protest against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). And they want him (Akeredolu) to come out. For what? To address you at the PDP secretariat? They just want the security agencies to allow them to come onto the street. Where is this done?”

Odebowale wondered why critics wanted his principal back in the state, maintaining that governance has been going on smoothly despite Akeredolu not being physically present.

in Ondo State.

He said, “When they say they want to see Aketi, do they want to see him at the site so that he would be carrying cement or following workmen? What exactly? The civil servants have been paid all their salaries. Aketi has been signing laws since he came back.”

Reacting to Odebowale’s statement, the state PDP publicity secretary,  Kennedy Ikantu Peretei, said, “On a good day, it would have been unnecessary to react to Doyin Odebowale’s illogical argument about why Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has not been seen in Ondo State because he who drums for a madman is himself insane.|

Peretei, however, said, “To say that PDP has no business demanding for Mr. Governor’s whereabouts is a measure of his ignorance of what is expected of a governor that has been missing in action for more than six months.”