Ondo election: Group accuses Ibrahim of conniving with Fashola, El-Rufai, Fayemi to sell-off state’s assets

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Ondo election: Group accuses Ibrahim of conniving with Fashola, El-Rufai, Fayemi to sell-off state’s assets

A pan-African organisation of Ondo youths, the Ondo Young Leaders in Diaspora has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in this month’s governorship election in the state, Jimoh Ibrahim, of conniving with the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai and Minister of Solid Minerals, Kayode Fayemi in an alleged plot to sell-off the state’s critical infrastructures, if given the mandate.

Recently, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, replaced Eyitayo Jegede with Ibrahim as the PDP flag bearer in the November 26 election in Ondo.

However, the group, in a statement by its president, Tomide Akinribido, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to warn the ministers and governor to stay away from the politics of Ondo.

Akinribido said, “It is of great importance to issue this press statement at this time when our attention has been drawn to this revelation by an online newspaper, on how controversial businessman Jimoh Ibrahim, knowing full well that he cannot win an election, wants to cause distraction and commotion within the ruling party in the state with an intent to give way to the APC candidate, Rotimi Akeredolu, being an ally of the trio and get as compensation, governor Mimiko’s projects, The new International Event Centre, The Dome, in Akure, and the 80% near completion Ore power plant, which is targeted to serve the proposed Industrial estate in that region, besides fixing his un-abating court battle with the Asset Management Company (AMCON), having accepted to play their script.

“Jimoh Ibrahim has no good record either as public or private figure, and always wanting to gain cheap public attention not minding its outcome.

”Jimoh is a charlatan and a self-centred person whose joy is tied around causing problems and killing whatever he touches. This is why people call him ‘Jimoh the Undertaker’. He will do anything for money not minding whose ox is gored so far it doesn’t affect him.

“Jimoh is surely getting fortunes from all these brouhaha orchestrated and sponsored by these three people to alleviate his bankruptcy at the detriment of the people and future of his own birth place, Ondo state

“If he (Jimoh), a swindler who claimed a billionaire, could not help or invest in his state, at least, he shouldn’t toy with the peace and inheritance of the people and future of the state. The only two edifices he has in Akure, the state capital, NICON HOUSE, at the heart of Isikan is in a sorry state due to its dilapidated state, while the Energy gas station along Ilesha road is nothing to write home about

“We are not surprised that Jimoh would involve in a deal that will see him trade his name, birth right and birthplace because he has never helped, either in partnership with the state government or as an individual, develop a program to further elevate the state but always at the centre of whatever could destabilize the peace of the state.