By Victor Akinkuolie Ado-Ekiti

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The Ekiti State Government on Tuesday urged the people of the State to disregard what it called false and misleading report by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the State.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Governor Kayode Fayemi, Mr Yinka Oyebode, said the SDP through its legal adviser Mr Owoseni Ajayi, had alleged that the Governor had set up a “task force” to disrupt the June 18, 2022 governorship election in the State.

According to the statement, Oyebode said  ” the report was a fallout of a purported petition written by one Owoseeni Ajayi to security agencies in the state, alleging that some prominent citizens and union leaders in the state have been recruited by the Governor to disrupt the election”

The CPS while condemning the petition and described it as one of the way by the SDP to score cheap propaganda, he explained that “the allegation would have been ignored as another dubious fabrication from the stable of the troubled SDP, but for the fact it was written by a supposed learned fellow.

“It is rather ridiculous that a former Attorney General of the State is the one assigned the role of Chief fiction writer for the dying party. More saddening is the relish with which he undertook the task of concocting the spurious allegations.

“While we pity Ajayi for descending to this low level of engagement, we urge the relevant security agencies in the State to thoroughly investigate the allegations contained in the report, with a view to determining the truth of the matter and taking necessary steps to ensure that purveyors of lies and those who make false claims are brought to book” he stated.

He noted that Governor Kayode Fayemi’s administration remains committed to improving the quality of lives of Ekiti citizens through effective implementation of the five-point development agenda.

Oyebode explained that the credentials of the Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum as a decent and pragmatic leader are well noted by well-meaning Nigerians across the geo-political zones and cannot be tainted by unfounded claims of a gang of hack writers who have taken abode in SDP.