Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has rejected the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Presidential Reconciliation Committee…

Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

“Tinubu has no business coming to Ondo State since there is no crisis. All is well with APC in Ondo State; we are waxing stronger. Olusola Oke has just returned to stay longer, so Asiwaju Tinubu has no reason to come here.”

“Where there is peace, you don’t need a peacemaker so you don’t create more problems. The Presidential reconciliation committee is not needed here in Ondo State; there is peace in Ondo APC.”

“On local government autonomy, I campaigned and I have not forgotten what I said about local government autonomy; there was not a time that I spoke about supporting local government autonomy. I am a lawyer and I know what is called federating units of a federal government. Nigeria cannot be the only place where we would bastardise the institutions. We copy something and make it totally dysfunctional.”

“Federation is made of a federal unit and a federating unit. There are no three federating units in any federation. The federal unit is the Federal Government and other federating units are states. There is no way I will stand anywhere and put my weight behind local government autonomy. I am never in support of local government autonomy, I never said so.”