There was confusion at the Ondo State Government House in Akure yesterday as the Deputy Governor, Mr. Agboola Ajayi reappointed all his seven aides who were sacked by Governor Oluwatotimi Akeredolu.
Early hours of Tuesday, Governor Akeredolu sacked the Special Assistant on New Media to the embattled Deputy Governor, Allen Sowore, and later sacked his Chief Press Secretary, Babatope Okeowo alongside his five other aides, and his wife.
The governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Segun Ajiboye, had released a statement sacking the aides.
The affected aides were: Special Assistant, Special Duties, Mr. Olomu Bayo; Special Assistant, Photography, Mr. Olawale Abolade Mukaila; Deputy Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Babatope Okeowo; Special Assistant, New Media, Mr. Allen Sowore; Personal Assistant, (Deputy Governor), Mr. Sam.Ogunmusi; Special Assistant to the wife of the Deputy Governor, Mr. Omotunmise Tokunbo; and Mrs Erifeyiwa Shola Akinnugba, (Special Assistant, Photography, wife of the Deputy Governor ).
Moments after Ajiboye’s statement, the sacked Deputy Chief Press Secretary, Okeowo released a statement reappointing the aides.
“ Yes, it is true that the governor announced our sack, but there is no cause for alarm, as we have been reabsorbed by the Deputy Governor,” he said.