The Ogun Situation Govt, on Saturday, described as a complete fabrication the declare that Governor, Dapo Abiodun referred to as Nigerians sore losers over the continued #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest.
In lieu, it stated, the governor was once speaking about positive losers of the 2023 elections who have been cashing in at the dissent of Nigerian juveniles to destabilise the rustic.
This was once contained in a remark issued on Saturday by means of the Particular Assistant on Media and Exposure to the governor, Mr Kayode Akinmade.
Akinmade defined that the chaos that greeted the protest in different portions of the rustic had vindicated Abiodun’s place.
He said additional that nowhere within the referenced interview with Channels TV did the governor recommend, even remotely, that regular Nigerians ventilating their grievances over the commercial status within the nation are sore losers.
The remark emphasized that the governor is widely recognized for his deep adoration of Nigerian juveniles, scholars, and staff, whom he has at all times held within the perfect benevolence and spoken about in sparkling phrases.
The remark added that handiest on Friday, the governor lauded Ogun citizens, specifically the early life, for shunning violent protests and accomplishing themselves in an exemplary means, assuring that his management remained dedicated to their happiness.
It said that the governor was once now not handiest willfully and maliciously taken out of context within the characterization of positive political combatants of President Bola Tinubu the use of the continued starvation protest to feather their very own nests, however is now additionally being persecuted by means of the similar folks thru backed assaults on his individual and place of work.
The remark said: “The declare that Governor Abiodun insulted regular Nigerians is spurious, bad, and lacks any rational foundation.
“Fundamental regulations of language point out that the that means of an accentuation is living in its context: Governor Abiodun may just now not had been regarding regular Nigerians because the sponsors of a faceless and leaderless protest.
“Time Governor Abiodun did certainly point out sore losers, he was once obviously emphasizing irredentist opposition leaders who don’t want this management neatly, urging them to organize for the 2027 polls in lieu of mindlessly discrediting each and every executive coverage simply to excite passions and incite society towards the federal government.
“To stretch his virtue of the assurance ‘Nigerians’ past its supposed referents on this context is, due to this fact, to have interaction in highbrow fraud and basic mischief.
“Governor Abiodun has the utmost respect for the protesters, and he has made that clear on many occasions.”