Ondo State Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Razaq Obe, has stated that those behind the forgery of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s signature will be jailed considering their roles and involvement in the development.
Obe, who stood by his earlier claim that some persons within that state cabinet had been forging Akeredolu’s signature for their own interests, told The Guardian that all relevant agencies had been notified of the situation.
According to Obe, he is ready to defend his claims and ready to face prosecution, stressing that if it were to be Akeredolu, he would kick against such a plot. He said: “If they say they want to prosecute me, let them go ahead; let them initiate it. I’m set for a long journey with these crooks until they are all jailed.
“If these people are human beings, rational thinkers, they would want to worry about the signature of a state chief executive being forged by a ring of criminals.
“We are here together in the state. I know the weight and enormity of the discovery that we already have, and in due time, all of these guys will go in for it. That is the truth.
Meanwhile, the State House of Assembly has stated that it has not yet been notified of the allegations, hence the resolve to monitor the developments.
When contacted by The Guardian, the Spokesperson of the Assembly, Olatunji Oshati, said: “What actually happened is that we heard about it, but the most important thing is for them to write the House in the form of a petition. It is then that the Assembly can intervene.”
HOWEVER, President Bola Tinubu has again summoned Ondo State Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa; Speaker of the state’s House of Assembly, Olamide Oladiji and others for another meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
It was gathered that the meeting was scheduled to take place late yesterday. The latest invitation may not be unconnected to the festering political crisis in the state.
A source in Akure said that the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Oladunni Odu, and the state chairman of the party, Ade Adetimehin, were equally invited by the President to find a lasting solution to the political logjam occasioned by the continued absence of the governor in the state since his return from medical vacation abroad.
