By Daud Olatunji Abeokuta – Ogun State governor, Senator,Ibikunle Amosun on Friday vowed to smoke out those purveying rumours and falsehoods against him, and ensure the are sent to jail.
Governor of Ogun State, Senator
Ibikunle Amosun The governor while speaking at the June 12 Cultural Centre,
Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, during a Town Hall meeting of stakeholders
for the 2018 Budget, veered off the prepared speech and ckeared the air on some
speculations against him.
The
meeting was organized by the state’s Ministry of Budget and Planning for the
purpose of collecting inputs of all stakeholders and build them into the
preparation of the 2018 Executive Appropriation Bill, but Amosun used the
avenue to clear air on rumours being circulated against him. The governor
accused some unnamed politicians, whom he said, are aspiring to govern Ogun
State in 2019, of being responsible for the spate of falsehood churned out
against him and his administration.
The
Governor who cited the reported raid of his Lagos home by the Operatives of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as the latest in the series of
falsehoods being circulated against him, vowed to “smoke out” the perpetrators
and jail them.
He
dismissed the recent rumour of EFCC raid on his home as a “concoction of
idiots” He said instead of those aspiring to govern the state to tell residents
how they intend to transform the state and make it better, they have resorted
to engaging some “idiots” who would sit in a room space to concoct falsehood in
the vain hope that lies and rumour mongering would help the governorship
aspirations of their masters.
Amosun
also broke his silence on a case of a lady on National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC) who was rumoured to have had twin – babies for him in less than a year
ago. The Governor lamented that the rumour gained so much currency that his
Mother – In-law had to call him to confirm if what she heard about a ‘second
wife’ having twins for him was true or not. He said he has been married to his
wife, Mrs Olufunso Amosun, in the last 26 years and had never kept a girl
friend, let alone having one that delivered twins for him, adding that the
rumoured twins issue also got to the notice of his wife.
He noted
that task of keeping one wife is even challenging today in Nigeria and had no
plans whatsoever to double such challenges with additional baggage. He noted
that those purveyors of falsehood could beat James Hadley Chase to it in
“fiction concoction” in bids to malign him. On the expected 2018 budget, Amosun
said his administration would make judicious use of it, adding that he work
round the clock to ensure that all on – going programmes and projects were
completed on or before May, 2019. He called on the Federal Government and the
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), to make provision for special
funds to be disbursed to some states which had put infrastructure in place to
prevent flooding. According to him, giving fund and relief materials to the
states ravaged by flood is good but others that put measures in place to avert
flooding in their respective states should also be rewarded with fund as a form
of encouragement.