The Ondo State government has raised the alarm over what it described as concluded plans by enemies of the state, to embark on character assassination, outright falsehood and massive propaganda to undermine the government of the state.
The state commissioner for Information, Hon. Kayode Akinmade in a statement issued in Akure yesterday said government has uncovered the planned attack which has been scripted to begin with series of petitions to be written against the person of Dr. Olusegun Mimiko and government of the state.
Akinmade stated that following several failed attempts by adversaries to indict the governor through petitions written against him to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), a meeting was held in Abuja in the house of a prominent Ondo politician recently where a lawyer, Charles Ogboli, was allegedly assigned to write frivolous petitions against Dr. Mimiko using framed up allegations, especially as it concerned the States Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (OSOPADEC).
He alleged that the lawyer is expected to begin his ‘assignment’ 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,” adding that “checks have revealed the identity of the hired lawyer as an Abuja based who works for the EFCC chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, which explains his choice for the hatchet job.
