Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, says it’s untrue that he’s planning to send the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after his predecessor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko.
Akeredolu said he had no plan to release evidence to the EFCC to justify his alleged plan to arrest Mimiko.
An online medium (not First News) had carried a report that Akeredolu allegedly threatened to expose Mimiko to the anti-graft agency.
But the governor said he had no such plans.
Akeredolu, in a statement issued on Saturday by the state Commissioner for Information, Mr Donald Ojogo, described the report as false and mischievous.
In the statement titled, ‘Re: Threat to expose Mimiko to EFCC,’ the governor said his political differences with Mimiko would never destroy their cordial relationship, which has spanned over 40 years.
According to the statement, “The widely circulated story line is untrue, puerile and utterly mischievous. It is, in all intents, a cleverly laid path for the two friends to engage in a needless mudslinging.
“It is perhaps pertinent to state unequivocally that Governor Akeredolu does not desire, not even in the least of anyone’s imagination, to travel such pernicious path typical of those who have taken the route of perfidy for the sake of their political ambitions. We have since wished them well even in their self-inflicted tears of treachery and betrayal.
“Governor Akeredolu has nothing against his friend and immediate past predecessor. He has chosen to allow posterity to intercede and interpret the roles of men in whatever form.
“In this regard, the friendship of the duo shall remain unaffected by the current political permutations, alignments and realignment, however impotently strange. Governor Akeredolu shall maintain that cordiality even in the face of opportunism.”