By Kolade Larewaju
ABEOKUTA – THE Ogun State Government has denied claims that Governor Olugbenga Daniel was seeking the intervention of President Goodluck Jonathan over pending electoral matters in the judiciary.

Chief Press Secretary to Governor Daniel, Mr. Adegbenro Adebanjo,  in a reaction to  statement  by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, said the assertion was spurious and a campaign of calumny.

The ACN had in a statement by the Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Sola Lawal, said Daniel’s statement made in Sagamu during the meeting of Jonathan for President supporters, “contained a poorly veiled disappointment with the failure of the president to intervene and save Ekiti State.

That the Ogun State governor openly instigated the president to step in to forestall Osun State from going the way of Ekiti calls for determined vigilance of all progressives and believers in the rule of law”.

But Mr. Adebanjo in his statement said “this spurious and completely concocted claim is wholly at variance with the Governor’s speech during the stakeholders meeting of the Southwest zone of the Presidential campaign of Jonathan/Sambo.

“Mr. Lawal is simply playing out the smear campaign and utter mischief which have become the ACN’s hallmark and the modus operandi of its war of attrition against the governor and government of Ogun State. ”

This false statement has also been latched on to by the Party’s National Secretariat which further deliberately distorted the import of the Governor’s speech. For the avoidance of doubt,  Governor  Daniel while addressing the meeting said   the Southwest should come together to prevent another party from supplanting it and that the President should support this endeavor, especially in the run up to the 2011 elections.

“The support has to do with the party structure where there are challenges among members over party tickets for next year’s general elections. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Governor calling on the National leader of the party who is the President to intervene and reposition the PDP in the Southwest.”