A former commissioner in Ondo state, and an aspirant for the state’s governorship seat in next year’s election, Chief Olufemi Adekanmbi, has accused Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of being after his life.
Adekanmbi said this while addressing newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, noting that the governor is persecuting him over his governorship ambition.
According to him, “as soon as the elections were over in November 2016, Mr Kola Olawoye submitted a petition against me alleging that I and some other politicians in Owo carried out the destruction of life and property.
“I was invited by the Ondo State Police Command and subsequently charged to court where I was discharged and acquitted, among others.
“I received lots of threat calls before and after the elections and even up till now, I still receive calls from people threatening to deal with me.
“The reason behind all these is because of the forthcoming governorship election in which they believe some powerful forces are behind my aspiration.
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“Plans have been perfected to frame me up at all cost by dropping a dead body in my house at Owo and thereafter hold me responsible for the killing.
“Plans have also been perfected to plant incriminating objects like guns in my house to rope me as a gun-runner.
“ I was surprised to receive a letter from the Commissioner of Police in Ondo State inviting me for interrogation. On receiving the letter, I called the IPO to whom I was directed to report only to be told that it was the Attorney General of Ondo State that wrote a petition which they had earlier submitted to EFCC against me.
“I am now terrified and become afraid to the extent that I can no longer visit Owo in the last three months as I am afraid I may be kidnapped and killed and at the end, Fulani herdsmen would be blamed.”
The ex-commissioner wondered why the Attorney – General of the state, Mr. Kola Olawoye SAN, was still prosecuting him when the case against him had been thrown out by the court.
But Akeredolu, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant (Media and Publicity), Mr Ojo Oyewamide, accused Adekanmbi of seeking media attention.
Akeredolu said, “But for the deceptive and diversionary reason, mischief, as well as the motive behind the person in question, we would not have bothered granting any element of seriousness to an unstable character as such.
“A man with clean hands does not require extraneous things to seek attention. If it is attention he desires, this should be enough for people of his ilk. Adekanbi requires no more of response than the fact that the world should ignore him.”