Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala
A
former Governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, has dismissed rumours
that he collapsed at the venue of the Labour Party National Executive
Committee meeting in Ibadan on Wednesday.
Alao-Akala, in a statement by his media
aide, Oludare Ogunlana, on Thursday, described the rumour as the
handiwork of “detractors who were not comfortable his popularity.”
The statement also said that the
Alao-Akala Campaign Organisation had succeeded in tracing the true
owners of the website which published the report.
It read, “Based on a false report which
emerged online that Alao-Akala had collapsed at the venue of the LP
National Executive Committee meeting in Ibadan on Wednesday and was
rushed to the hospital, we blame the opposition parties for the
publication.
“It is not true that Alao-Akala is
battling any form of ailment or that he collapsed at the meeting as
reported by an online publication outfit. We challenge the publisher of
the news medium to come out openly if the news was true. Why didn’t
other journalists who were at the venue get the news?
“The Nigerian Guild of Editors should
look into the issue of unregistered news media that spread lies in order
to please certain political parties for pecuniary interest.”
Ogunlana also called on the people of the
state not to be swayed by the antics of those who were against the
aspiration of the former governor, saying that Alao-Akala’s government
could not be compared with those that succeeded it.
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