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.

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“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