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Governor sacks aide over Facebook comment

THE Special Assistant to Ondo State Governor on Political Matters, Augustine Pelemo, has been sacked over a Facebook comment.

Vanguard gathered that Pelemo who was attached to the office of the deputy governor, Hon Agboola Ajayi, posted a comment alleged to be offensive to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on his Facebook wall.

Findings by showed that the aide in his comments on Sunday while wishing the wife of the deputy governor, Mrs Ajewole Agboola, happy birthday,described her as the “Acting First Lady.”

The post read: “Happy Birthday to the Acting First Lady of Ondo State, Chief Mrs. Ajewole Agboola Ajayi. Long may you live ma.”

Governor Akeredolu is currently on leave and his deputy has been functioning in acting capacity in the last three weeks. He is expected back in the country and today..

However, the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo, said in a statement that Pelemo was sacked in a “bid to instil sanity and nip in the bud divisive acts and tendencies inimical to the existing cordiality and cohesion in the administration government.”

Ojogo said the sack takes immediate effect..

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