Politicians sponsoring negative reports against Amosun, says SSG, " Taiwo Adeoluwa "

The Secretary to the Ogun State Government, Taiwo Adeoluwa, has said the upsurge in negative reports against the state Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, after the recent sacking of six civil servants, is the handiwork of frustrated politicians.

He said this in Abeokuta on Sunday in a statement he signed, a copy of which was made available to our correspondent.

He said the spate of criticisms against the state government in the mainstream and social media on the recent sanctions imposed on some education workers by the Ogun State Civil Service Commission was part of the price of leadership.

The statement read in part, “A few of the critics were genuine, having commented based on the limited information available to them at the time. The vast majority were sponsored by frustrated politicians who lost elections woefully and were now desperate to get into public reckoning through the back door.

“The government had remained unperturbed by the negative commentaries because they were misplaced, having been premised on wrong information.

“However, the cynical opposition has now chosen this period to orchestrate a campaign of calumny not only against the governor but against his family as well. The most unconscionable of the lies being peddled by these opposition elements is that the wife of the governor was arrested in London.

“Nothing could be farther from the truth. Mrs. Olufunso Amosun is a paragon of decency and an exemplar of all that is noble. These false allegations are totally condemnable. The quest for power need not descend to this level of infamy.”

While noting that government would not be deterred by the name-calling and malicious lies, the state scribe called on the public to be wary of mischief makers and failed politicians now in the borrowed regalia of public defenders and their media hacks.

Adeoluwa said the state government would remain focused on its mission to rebuild Ogun and make its residents secure and prosperous