The Ondo state government has insisted that the ailing Governor of the state, Barr Rotimi Akeredolu, is not incapacitated and will return to duty soon.
The clarification came after National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, on Monday said Akeredolu is hospitalised and in a state of “extreme incapacity”.
Adamu said this when he met with state chairmen of the party in Abuja on Monday.
Akeredolu had embarked on a 21-day leave on June 7 and was expected to return on July 6. However, he wrote to the state house of assembly, extending his medical leave indefinitely.
In a statement on Tuesday, Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, the Ondo state commissioner for information, maintained that the governor is not in a critical situation.
“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,” Ademola-Olateju said.
“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.”
