Weekend’s wedding of the daughter of Ondo state Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu in Mauritius has pitched the People’s Democratic Party against the ruling All Progressives Congress in the state.
The PDP in a statement issued by its Director of Media & Publicity, Zadok Akintoye, described the wedding as a sheer waste of government resources.
But the State government described insinuations surrounding the wedding ceremony of the daughter of Akeredolu as needless.
The state commissioner for Information, Donald Ojogo urged the PDP to provide evidence of State Government’s funds spent on those who attended the wedding ceremony.
However, the PDP said taking the wedding to Mauritius is another testament of the lack of empathy by the APC-led government towards the difficult challenges currently being faced by citizens.
The statement added, “Considering very carefully the deplorable condition of public infrastructure in the state, the high number of students in public universities who have been forced to either suspend or fully abandon their academic pursuits, the inability of this government to provide basic and affordable healthcare.
” One would have expected the governor to show some minimal level of empathy expected of a public servant superintending over a government that has increased taxes and levies paid by citizens and forced many to seek survival through pain.
“It is on record that this APC-led government, remains the most anti-people government in the history of Ondo state and one that has glorified crony capitalism, nepotism, tribalism and wanton disregard for the welfare of the people.
“Within the last two years, the governor has celebrated weddings of his children across the world from Canada to the United States and now Mauritius at the expense of citizens of this state without any sense of respect to the people he leads. How else can one explain the present display of affluence and disdain for the people?”
But Ojogo said the PDP’s claim is nothing but lies concocted to discredit Akeredolu’s government.
He said, “The attention of the Ondo State Government has been drawn to the needless insinuations surrounding the wedding ceremony of the daughter of Govermor Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, SAN in Mauritius over the weekend.
” First, the baleful narratives deliberately churned out to the public were not in unexpected. This is more so that the quality of those who attended the event has the capacity to draw such carousal inspirations that state funds were spent on the travel and other expenditures of those who were at the ceremony.
“It is perhaps, pertinent to state that the erroneous impression being created by those behind the unsavoury perspectives that the entire members of the State Executive Council attended the event is not just puerile but pernicious.For the records, not more than five of the 30-member Cabinet graced the event at their personal expense.
“We therefore plead with sponsors of such unholy narratives to be kind enough to provide evidence of State Government’s funds spent on those who attended the wedding ceremony. Perhaps, this would go a long way in establishing a more believable perspective that could give credence to their efforts. At least, such will suffice better than the post-dated December 29, 30 and 31 2019 Emirates Flight Ticket that is apparently disingenuous”.
