Ondo State government, yesterday, said that the media report credited to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, on the health of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu was quoted out of context.
Reacting to the media report credited to the APC chairman, the Information and Orientation Commissioner in Ondo State, Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, said that the APC chairman did not mention that the Governor was in a state of “extreme incapacity” according to Hon. Ade Adetimehin, Chairman of Ondo State chapter of APC who was at the meeting.
The statement reads: “The attention of the Ondo State government has been drawn to a report, credited to the Chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.
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 Chairman of the APC in Ondo State, Ade Adetimehin, who attended the meeting has debunked the report as untrue and disconnected from the statement of the Chairman at the event.
“The National Chairman was indeed excited at the reports on the rate of recovery of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, 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 Chairman mention that the Governor was in a state of “extreme incapacity.”
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