The Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Ali Olanusi has said he
remained the democratically elected “second citizen” of the
state and nobody can impeach him from his office.
Olanusi said this during an exclusive interview with
SaharaReporters in Akure, the State capital, shortly after his
convoy was attacked by thugs of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), who went then pursued the convoy of the Deputy
Governor.
SaharaReporters authoritatively gathered that the embattled
Governor of the State, Olusegun Mimiko, sponsored the thugs
to attack and fired at the vehicles of the Deputy Governor
immediately as he entered into the town.
The Deputy Governor told SaharaReporters that he cant leave
the position of the second citizen of the state until his tenure
as the Deputy Governor of the State expired, adding that he
still remains an elected government official.
“By the grace of the Almighty God, I am still the elected
Deputy Governor of Ondo State and nothing has changed my
role in the State”, he said.
Olanusi also accused the Governor and his cohorts of planning
to “eliminate” him and some members of his family for
defecting to the All Progressive Congress (APC) party few
days before the Presidential and National Assembly elections.
He revealed that Governor Mimiko was the “real brain” behind
the Saturday disruption of the State House of Assembly
election in the State by sponsoring thugs who hijacked ballots
boxes.
He added that the Governor also silenced security officers
posted to monitored elections by bribing them and diverting
election materials where the APC had majority supporters to
repress the voters from the PDP.
Olanusi, whose recent defection to the APC had caused
Mimiko a lot of embarrassment and diminishing popularity in
Abuja, revealed that he would continue to serve his people
who supported him into the position.
Olanusi disclosed that the thugs came out from the PDP
Secretariat along the Fiwaseye roundabout, where his convey
was stoned and fired at by thugs.
“As I was coming from my town (Supare Akoko), I received
calls that some hoodlums had gathered along the streets of
Akure and the State House waiting for my arrival to attack
me. Immediately I alerted my security details in convoy to be
ready for the show of shame from the attackers.
“Truly, after the roundabout from Fiwasaye, some boys which
were hoodlums carrying placards, threw stones at my convoy
and broke one of the side mirror of my official vehicle and
shot at us,” he said.
“When my security aides could not withstand it anymore, they
too shot into the air to scare away the thugs and they all ran
into the factional PDP Secretariat built by Mimiko near to the
roundabout. This is how we knew they were sponsored thugs
by the party,” he told SaharaReporters.