Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state, on Saturday, threw his weight behind the state’s ministerial nominee, Senator Tayo Alasoadura, as member of the Federal Executive Council, condemning those kicking against Alasoadura nomination.
Akeredolu who called on the Senate to ignore the call against approving Alasoadura as ministerial nominees, said in a statement issued and signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Segun Ajiboye, on his behalf that the position of a group against the nomination of Alasoadura was targeted to cause distraction.
He described those behind the call as faceless and said the statement became imperative “in view of the purported position taken by a faceless group by the name APC Solidarity Stakeholders, against the nomination of the Akure born senator of the Eighth National Assembly”
The statement stated that “For emphasis, the so-called group is not just faceless. It is a divisive aberration unknown to all legitimate organs of the All Progressives Congress (APC). To say the least, the group merely exits in the hallucinating minds of a few individuals who have surrendered themselves to ignoble self-abnegation.
Mr Governor considers the call for the withdrawal of Alasoadura’s nomination as a contrived distraction which stands logic in the head. For the records, Alasoadura, who served meritoriously as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is one of the few enviable brains behind the Petroleum Industry and Governance Bill (PIGB) which currently awaits Presidential Assent.
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“As a Chartered Accountant of over thirty years experience who doubled as chairman of the Finance Commissioners’ Forum for six years while he served as Finance Commissioner in Ondo State, Mr. Governor believes strongly that not only APC but the entire citizenry in the State will derive maximum benefit from his stay at the Federal Executive Council. There could not have been a better ministerial nominee from the APC in Ondo State than Alasoadura at the moment.
The governor, therefore, described as puerile, the argument that Alasoadura worked against the APC in the last elections, dismissing such “as a paradox that the Ministerial nominee was rather, a victim of conspiracy on the part of those who wanted everything to go their own way in the APC.
“This was in spite of the fact that Alasoadura was fielded unopposed through an automatic ticket, by the National leadership of the party as a senatorial candidate in the last election”
Akeredolu, however, reiterated his support for Alasoadura with an assurance that will bring dividends of democracy to the doorbell of the people of the state, calling on Alasoad to ignore any malicious opposition against his nomination.
Akeredolu expressed satisfaction that all stakeholders, including the Ondo State House of Assembly, consider Alasoadura a worthy party leader who has demonstrated immense hard work, dedication and loyalty to the APC.
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