By Kelly Amos, Naija Center News
The wife of the State governor of Oyo State, Mrs. Florence Ajimobi has described as biased, false and unjust, a report that she ordered someone to stripped her Chief of Protocol naked.
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In a statement signed by her Special Assistant on Media, Yejide Gbenga-Ogundare, Mrs. Ajimobi stressed that those who spread such news were on a mission to distract and destroy her image.
According to the statement, the governor’s wife never ordered anyone to stripped her Chief of Protocol, Mrs Lape Busari as speculated, instead, she was redeployed.
” The truth is that a Mrs. Ojuolape Busari worked in the office of the Wife of the Governor as a protocol officer but was redeployed before the election as a norm in a civil service. Any civil or public servant can be posted to any ministry/parastatal/agency and Mrs. Busari’s case was not an exceptional. She can be posted out to other ministries at any period in her career. We wish to lay emphasis on the fact that the First lady at no time had any issue with her. In actual fact, Her Excellency had a smooth working relationship with Mrs. Busari which still exists after she was redeployed. Therefore, there was no cause for Her Excellency to eavesdrop on her conversation and we wish to reiterate that this did not happen at any point in time. To buttress the cordial between the duo, Mrs Busari was caller to visit Her Excellency to congratulate the family on their re-election. Mrs Busari is a living witness to all these assertions.
“Furthermore, we want to clarify that protocol officers attached to the First Lady’s office are not direct staff of that office. They are civil servants deployed there to serve and they could be redeployed to other ministries or parastatals at any time and without reason or prior notice. The redeployment of Her Excellency’s protocol officers to other ministries therefore is part of the constant restructuring going on in the state civil service and not a reaction to any occurrence whether past or present.
According to the story in some session of the media, Mrs. Ajimobi about a week before the governorship election called her Chief of Protocol on phone to give her orders on what she wanted done, but overheard her “protocol officer” lashing at her in the believe that she had hung up the phone.
Mrs. Lape was quoted as saying “let her keep sending me. In about a week, I will wait to see her send me on such errands when they would have been voted out by the people of Oyo state.”
According to the report, Mrs. Ajimobi waited until the election was won by her husband and then sent for her Chief of Protocol, the governor’s wife put to her notice, what she overheard on phone and then ordered one of her aides to strip the woman naked despite pleas and tears from the officer and sympathizers.
In the report, Mrs. Lape was called a grandmother and Chief of Protocol. Responding to the allegation, Gbenga-Ogundare in a statement sent to NAIJA CENTER NEWS, said that the Lape Busari who worked with Oyo First Lady is not a Chief Protocol Officer neither is she a grandmother as she clocked 42 on her last birthday adding that the conflict of identity is a strong indication that the story by this blogger is all about fiction.
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