The National Headquarters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has debunked news in the media space alleging that the National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, purportedly said that the ailing Executive Governor of Ondo State was in a state of extreme incapacity.
In a statement signed by Senator Iyiola Omisore, National Secretary, the APC said, “The attention of the national headquarters of All Progressives Congress has been drawn to a report, credited to the National Chairman; Senator Abdullahi Adamu, on the 11th July, 2023”.
“The headline, “Akeredolu in state of extreme incapacity, hospitalised”, bore a tinge of the usual mischievous, wicked and insensitive reportage, sponsored by desperate politicians.
The National Chairman was indeed excited at the reports on the rate of recovery of the Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, CON, and urged all those present at the meeting to pray for his quick return.”
“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 National Chairman mention that the Governor was in a state of “extreme incapacity” in the meeting of 10th July 2023 or anytime for that matter.”
“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.”
“Members of the public are advised to ignore this news as the contents therein exist in the realm of the imagination of workers of iniquity.”
“Mr. Governor is NOT incapacitated. He will return to his duty as soon as the doctors certify him fully fit to do so” the APC concluded.