From Bamigbola Gbolagunte, Akure
ONDO State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on Governor Olusegun Mimiko to stop blaming President Muhammadu Buhari for the current economic hardship in the state.
The party said Governor Mimiko should take responsibility for the current economic situation, even as it urged him to face governance and leave Buhari out of the current situation in the state.
APC in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Steve Otaloro, said Mimiko’s recent claim that the President Buhari-led Federal Government caused economic hardship in the state, was mischievous and provocative campaign of calumny aimed at inciting the people against the APC-led Federal Government.
“Conscious of his fading popularity in Ondo State, Mimiko has recently embarked on false dissemination of distorted information aimed at projecting the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari as being responsible for the people’s hardship in Ondo State.
“Instead of Mimiko addressing the massive corruption and the unprecedented syphoning of the nation’s resources by the leaders of Mimiko’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led immediate past federal administration, the governor has perfidiously shifted blame on President Buhari-led administration that is assiduously working to better the lots of the citizenry and reposition our economy that had been battered and bruised by the previous PDP-led administrations as being responsible for the nation’s woes.
“If Mimiko had utilised the N14.6 billion bailout funds he got from the Federal Government in paying workers, managed the hundreds of billions of naira received in the past seven years from the Federation Account and if the state finances had not been opaque to accountability and due process, perhaps we would not have found ourselves in the present hardship to warrant dolling out food items to the indigenes of Ondo State by his administration as if