Aiyedatiwa presides over Exco meeting after President Tinubu’s brokered peace

In what appears to be a restoration of peace, the Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Dr Lucky Aiyedatiwa on Thursday presided over the Executive Council meeting of the State.

The meeting has put paid to over three months political conundrum in Ondo which hung impeachment on the Deputy Governor like the sword of Damocles..

Speaking with journalists after the meeting in Akure, the Information and Orientation Commissioner, Mrs Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, said they have embraced peace and abided with the resolutions reached with President Bola Tinubu.

Ademola-Olateju denied allegations that Governor Akeredolu’s signature was being forged by certain persons to loot the state treasury.
Making clarifications over the issue, Ademola-Olateju said: “The Governor still attends to files. Two documents surfaced online with different signatures purportedly belonging to Governor Akeredolu.

“Nobody is forging Mr Governor’s signature. The two files I sent to Governor Akeredolu were approved and returned.”

On the issues discussed at the meeting, the commissioner said: “Other issues discussed at the meeting, was the issue of the resolutions of the crisis which was reached at the meeting of the gladiators with President Bola Tinubu last Friday in Abuja.

“We discussed the issue of the key decision (resolutions reached at the meeting with the President) that there must be peace, that the status quo must remain, that there would be no dissolution of the exco members, that the deputy governor should write an undated letter of resignation, that the House of Assembly must not be tampered with, that the party executive must remain. We all agree to embrace peace.

“Among other decisions made at the meeting, the commissioner said was the issue of distribution of palliatives to the people of the state. She confirmed that 1, 200 bags of rice had been distributed to the people at each of the 18 local government areas of the state while the local governments with larger population got more
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“In the second tranche of the palliatives, we have distributed garri, beans and other local foodstuffs peculiar to the people of the state. Pensioners have been receiving N10,000 since August.

“Agreement has been reached with the labour. We would start paying the N35,000 wage allowance as from this month.”