Ondo Government Raises Alarm Over Alleged Plot Against Mimiko

The Ondo state government has raised the alarm over alleged plans by “enemies of the state” to embark on character assassination, outright falsehood and massive propaganda.

Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo state.

This Day reports that Kayode Akinmade, the state commissioner for information, expressed concern in a statement issued on Sunday, August 30, in Akure.

He revealed that the government had uncovered the planned attack, which had been scripted to begin with series of petitions to be written against Olusegun Mimiko and the state government.

Akinmade recalled that adversaries had several times attempted to indict the governor through petitions written against him to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He alleged that there was a meeting in Abuja, held in the house of a prominent Ondo politician, where a lawyer was assigned to write frivolous petitions against Mimiko.

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Akinmade added that the lawyer was expected to start with a petition against the governor over what “the meeting said should be another framed-up allegations on the spending of funds allocated to the agency”.

The commissioner noted that the checks had revealed the identity of the hired lawyer as an Abuj-based legal practitioner who works for Ibrahim Lamorde, the EFCC chairman.

“In fact, the lawyer was one of the lawyers who appeared for the EFCC chairman at the hearing organised by the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, on the alleged misappropriation of funds against the anti-graft agency boss in Abuja last week,” he said.

Akinmade said that a few days ago, a meeting was also held at the Lagos Airport Hotel, where lawyers and rights activists were recruited for a massive campaign against Mimiko on radio, television, social media, and newspapers.

According to the commissioner, the adversaries want to rubbish Mimiko for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to lose its relevance in the south-west in particular.

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However, Akinmade described the plans as “mere shadow chasing that would fail like the previous ones”. He noted that Mimiko had become the subject of the attack because of his role as a rallying point of the PDP in the country.

“They are afraid that the rising profile of the governor especially with his achievements in the health, education, employment and social welfare sectors, was a threat to the chances of some political parties in the next election in the state because he is still generally loved by the people.”

The commissioner called on the people of the state and all Nigerians to disregard any attempt by anybody to smear the governor’s hard-earned reputation.

Earlier this month, the Ondo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress accused Mimiko of alleged financial recklessness. The party said that Mimiko allegedly foot the monthly  salaries of Chief Olisa Metuh, the national publicity secretary of the PDP, and other leaders of the party.

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