MIMIKO FINGERS AKEREDOLU’S COMMISSIONER
Fake News Alert
We hereby alert the public of ongoing efforts of Donald Ojogo, the Ondo state Commissioner for Information, acting either for himself or on behalf of the Ondo State Government to draw Dr Olusegun Mimiko, and the PDP into a battle of words through irresponsible peddling of misinformation and deliberately concocted falsehood.
On Thursday, December 9, 2021, while the former governor was busy in Port Harcourt with the commissioning of the Rumuola Flyover, one of the deliveries of Governor Nyeson Wike, Donald Ojogo called some journalists and circulated a fake story about the phantom dissolution of the PDP executives in Ondo State.
Poorly written, with no credible source and full of illogic, the story was discountenanced by the majority of journalists who saw through the subterfuge of a panicking Commissioner of Information.
We alert the public of this development as it is becoming characteristic of Donald Ojogo. He had earlier sent one about Amotekun claiming some fictional attempts to oppose it.
Before then, he caused another to be circulated by a faceless group alleging some connivance between Dr Mimiko and some northern leaders against a Yoruba interest, he failed to define.
In both instances and more, Donald Ojogo is deliberately mischievous and manipulative. He sends out lies and he is not bold enough to append his signature to his fallacies. If he has no interest in promoting the government he serves, we suggest he is called to order by his principal and warned to desist from wasting tax payers’ money on mindless falsehood.
We call on media practitioners to verify the sources of their stories before using them so as to rid the profession of fake news as exemplified by those emanating from the office of Donald Ojogo, the Ondo State Commissioner for Information.
John Paul Akinduro
SA, Media and Digital Communications to Former Governor Olusegun Mimiko.
December 9, 2021.
PRESS STATEMENT
ONDO PDP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DISSOLUTION STORY SPONSORED BY APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ondo State Chapter wishes to State emphatically that the news making the round about the impending dissolution of the State Executive Committee to accommodate the interest of former Governor Dr. Olusegun Mimiko is false.
This planted story is part of the retroactive steps of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the government information propaganda machinery to discredit the image of the PDP, who’s profile is rising by the day.
The APC is afraid of what will befall them because they have nothing to showcase to the electorate but to write falsehood and planted in their friendly media houses.
Whereas our party is gaining momentum in terms of new quality members joining the party, APC has to contend with litigations as the aftermath of intractable crises from State Congresses across the country.
One is therefore, not surprised at this sponsored news story by the APC, and the government information machinery to cause disaffection amongst the PDP family.
Our party is on course to rescue and rebuild Nigeria from the suffocating decay and mess the APC has brought upon our country.
No amount of envy or wicked propaganda can save the APC and its incompetent handlers from total disgrace come 2023.
Kennedy Ikantu.Peretei,
State Publicity Secretary, Ondo PDP
9th December, 2021.
