By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor (Vanguard)
The people of Ondo State will not bow to worship a foreign entity, the state commissioner for information and strategy, Mr. Kayode Akinmade, has said.
Responding to claims of betrayal made against Governor Olusegun Mimiko and the determination of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, to ease the governor out of office in the 2012 gubernatorial election, Akinmade affirmed that the Ondo people would themselves determine their true leader.
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, ACN leader, was, at the weekend, quoted as saying during a town hall meeting of the party supporters in Ikorodu, Lagos State that “Mimiko must be hatched and pulled down for betrayal. Iroko has betrayed us; we must cut and pull it down.”
The manner of betrayal was, however, not disclosed. Tinubu and his powerful ACN machinery were believed to have been instrumental to Mimiko’s success in actualizing his mandate in 2009 as the Labour Party, LP, gubernatorial candidate in the 2007 general elections.
But responding to the claims against Mimiko, Akinmade said: “When the time comes, the people of Ondo State will determine their true leader. The Ondo people will not worship any foreign god”.
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