Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, yesterday, explained the building demolished by the state government which sparked off outry was constructed without legal backing and that it constituted  security risk.

Speaking in Abeokuta, the governor maintained that the outcry that greeted the demolition was mischievous and a calculated attempt to hand-twist his government into assenting to illegality that even the last administration admitted.

He revealed that the owners of the building had been notified by officials of the Daniel administration as far back as October, 2010 that the site was inappropriate and has been advised to bring it down.

According to the governor,“it is not about me, it is about the state. I have nothing personal about it.

I went out on Monday and we went to the golf course and we were looking for a land to erect a befitting edifice as the governor’s lodge and I wanted to be taken through the whole place and we were just going around and I saw this building just twenty meters to the fence of the state secretariat.

I asked where is this place? They said it was a shed they built for power equipment and, said why don’t you build an adjourning way to access the secretariat and they looked at me and I said, am I missing something? I said we should go there and they now said it belonged  to a private citizen and I asked if the place has the necessary approval because it was so close to the fence of the secretariat and you can easily stay in it and see all that is happening in the secretariat.

“They said the owner is  untouchable. There will be no two laws in Ogun  State; it will be one law for all, whether you are rich or poor and so I ordered its demolition. They had done everything and all they needed is the political will to complete it.”

Amosun, who also took time to explain the controversy that surrounded the police invitation of the  state former commissioner for information, Sina Kawonise, said, “It was an affront.

The commissioner,soon after hearing that the Ijebu Ode stadium had been renamed after the late Dipo Dina, went to the stadium to change the name from Ijebu Ode international stadium. It was a citizen that saw him do it that alerted us and i asked the police commissioner to ask him why he should embark on such action.”