The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that a huge sum of money in a foreign currency was found on Ondo state governor by security operatives during the Bayelsa State supplementary governorship election.
 

In a statement signed by Steve Otaloro, the Director of Publicity and Media of the Ondo State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC), the party has alleged that a "huge sum of money in a foreign currency" was found on Governor Olusegun Mimiko by security operatives in the early hours of the Bayelsa State supplementary governorship election on Saturday.

 

A copy of the statement issued to journalists, in Akure, the Ondo State capital, explained how some sections of the media, primarily their proprietors in Ondo and Bayelsa States, were bribed by Governor Mimiko's media aides to "kill the story" from going public.

 

Otaloro disclosed in the statement that it was shocking and completely unacceptable that the State executive would allegedly take such a huge sum of money to campaign in Bayelsa State while the people of his State are wallowing in abject poverty.

 

Below is the statement;

 

"We have often heard such stories which we found difficult to believe until this instance that the governor was intercepted by men of the security services. This, however, confirms why Dr. Mimiko is regarded as an ‘ATM Governor’ outside the State while the people he swore to serve are living in squalor and abject poverty.

 

The State Government neither owned up to the story nor denied it as it used to because it knew a denial might provoke a response by the security services to set the record straight.

 

Ondo State APC views this mindless profligacy with grave consequences at the time when an average Ondo State citizen finds it difficult to have a decent meal per day and at a time when the State Government is owing workers two months salary.

 

Besides, the State Government budget performance index has been less than 15 percent since the beginning of Governor Mimiko’s tenure.

 

At this point, Dr. Mimiko ought to concentrate on projects and services that would allow him to leave his footprint on the sand of time in terms of developmental projects as his tenure winds up rather than diverting the State resources to frivolous awards to boost his political ego," the statement read.