Doyin Odebowale, the former Senior Special Assistant on Special Duties and Strategy to the late Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, asserted that the former governor exhibited weakness in handling matters involving his wife, Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu.
Odebowale, who claimed to have been a friend with the former governor for over 30 years and was responsible for writing his campaign materials the first time he contested and lost the governorship election in 2012, made this known on Saturday during an interview with media personnel, Segun Olawoye.
He also claimed to be the last person who convinced Akeredolu to contest for governor in 2011 despite his friends’ defiance because he was an irascible person.
According to the late governor’s aide, he confronted Anyanwu-Akeredolu while minding their cultural differences when she issued a threat to deal with Olubunmi Ademosu, who was a special adviser to the late governor.
He stressed that he was not pleased with how she was captured on tape accusing her husband’s special adviser on public and inter-governmental relations of giving him concoctions to manage his poor health.
Recall that the First Lady had accused Ms Ademosu of an ambition to become deputy governor should the governor become incapable of completing his tenure.
Odebowale further said, “You may blame this woman for indiscretion. Marriage is a scam. I hate co-habitation. I respect my wife, but she cannot tell me not to relate with people.
“On his wife’s management, Aketi was a weakling.
“She was acting like she had more stake in Aketi’s family than anybody. What point was she proving? I knew Aketi was not sleeping with anybody.”
“No office as the office of the First Lady. Aketi shouldn’t have allowed it.”
Dispelling the rumour that the announcement of Aketi’s death was delayed, the former aide said he was only aware of Akeredolu’s death when his phone was spammed with calls for confirmation, adding, “I had to ring his immediate younger brother, Prof Wole Akeredolu who lectures in LASU. I asked if he had heard of Emperor (that is what we call him in a close circle). He said he still spoke with him on Christmas Day, making him the last person who spoke with him before his death.
He maintained his four children were not even aware of his death until the news broke.
While also clarifying the rumour on having anything to hide after Akeredolu’s death, prompting his early resignation, Odebowale refuted squandering the state’s fund and intimated that his action was borne out of his love and loyalty for his late boss and that there was nothing needed of him to continue in the new dispensation of the present governor — Lucky Ayedatiwa.
“I have nothing against whosoever is in office now. I have nothing left to do in the office when the person who brought me there is no longer there. I can’t remain in that space and pretend.
“I can’t be as committed as I was with Akeredolu because I got all his support. It was not politicking. He gave me the wings to fly. He was my brother like a family,” he added.
Odebowale, along with the Commissioner for Infrastructure, Lands and Housing, Aminu Raimi, and the Special Assistant on Photography to the former governor, Olawale Abolade, resigned following the death of Akeredolu in Germany on Wednesday.
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Posted: at 31-12-2023 06:19 PM (1 year ago) | Addicted Hero
well, most men are like that!! indulging their evil wife cos if not well she might poison them or just kill u anyway! u can't win women!! u just need to avoid them and run
Posted: at 31-12-2023 06:24 PM (1 year ago) | Grande Master
OmoNobaUku at 31-12-2023 07:29 PM (1 year ago) (m)
That's no surprise; given where she hails from. A lesson to others like Seyi Makinde, Dancing Adeleke et al to stop thinking with their anatomies, as there are always consequences to these actions and poor judgments. Now that he is no more, Devious Betty can be sent packing from the state. Everything is for a season. Her season is now over.
Posted: at 31-12-2023 07:29 PM (1 year ago) | Gistmaniac
The other day that your news came up, I said that if what you said was from your heart of hearts, then you are one of a kind. Little did I know that some of your fellow Yoruba's on this platform calling for your ban on international travel knew what they were saying. You said that you can no longer serve because the person that brought you is no longer there, that means that you were never serving the people, but your master and your pocket. You did not call the late man a weakling while he was alive, but as a ''loyal'' friend, here you are, insulting his person and family on Social Media now that he is dead. You are not loyal to anyone but your greedy self. So to you in all your folly, who else has a greater stake in a man's life and family than his wife? You want to drum up support to cover all your evil deeds against your people by tarnishing the image of a dead man's grieving wife. But this statement, “I can’t be as committed as I was with Akeredolu because I got all his support. It was not politicking. He gave me the wings to fly'' nailed you.
What is the color beneath your skin?
Posted: at 31-12-2023 07:35 PM (1 year ago) | Addicted Hero
That's no surprise; given where she hails from. A lesson to others like Seyi Makinde, Dancing Adeleke et al to stop thinking with their anatomies, as there are always consequences to these actions and poor judgments. Now that he is no more, Devious Betty can be sent packing from the state. Everything is for a season. Her season is now over.
Those at the top of the tree in Yorubaland roll with class. They go for Igbo women. Those at the bottom like you, fight with themselves and the hate in their hearts. Its a pity. I hope you'll be the one to go and send her packing from the state , poor you, all you can do is cry and bear the burden of a heavy heart.
What is the color beneath your skin?
Posted: at 31-12-2023 07:38 PM (1 year ago) | Addicted Hero
This Doyin could be the woman Akeredolu's wife was telling the world that she poisoned her husband. Accused of giving poisoned Agbo herbal medicine to Aketi. Your end will come soon.
Posted: at 31-12-2023 08:27 PM (1 year ago) | Gistmaniac
That's no surprise; given where she hails from. A lesson to others like Seyi Makinde, Dancing Adeleke et al to stop thinking with their anatomies, as there are always consequences to these actions and poor judgments. Now that he is no more, Devious Betty can be sent packing from the state. Everything is for a season. Her season is now over.
Blessed Are The Yoruba Men and Women That Are Married To Igbo.
Posted: at 31-12-2023 08:34 PM (1 year ago) | Gistmaniac
nametalkam at 31-12-2023 08:37 PM (1 year ago) (m)
Very weak tribalistic comment from a weak fellow. Why would you want to interfere with how a man decides to handle his family? then get upset when he tells you no? No be winch be that? He is dead now, you are spilling rubbish from you mouth! God will judge all these rubbish men
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Posted: at 31-12-2023 08:37 PM (1 year ago) | Addicted Hero
My take is; restrict all those that resigned from travelling out of Nigeria and they should make themselves available at any time ---why? Because these set of people are the ones carrying docs to the hailing man to sign without him knowing what is going on while his wife kept fighting for power and relevance.....they keep forging his signatures to award contracts. All of them are evil. But I can understand Betty that she needs to fight for her family wealth after all, they came to make the wealth and she is not the doctor!
Posted: at 31-12-2023 09:40 PM (1 year ago) | Hero
A good woman will fight for everything that is good for her family. She will not assume that her husband will die. She will keep fighting to keep his right while praying and hoping that he survives, even if it has to be a miracle. Betty raised alarm when the ailing man was poisoned by one of his own people. She did everything a wife should do. Betty is a good woman and a good wife. No one will tarnish her image no matter the bitterness in their hearts. Ndi Uchu.
What is the color beneath your skin?
Posted: at 1-01-2024 11:01 AM (1 year ago) | Addicted Hero
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