By Adekunle Sulaimon


Doyin Odebowale, the former Senior Special Assistant on Special Duties and Strategy to late Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, said the former governor was weak in matters involving his wife, Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu.

Odebowale, who claimed to have been a friend with the former governor for over 30 years and was responsible for writing his campaign materials the first time he contested and lost the governorship election in 2012, made this known on Saturday during an interview with media personnel, Segun Olawoye.

He also claimed to be the last person who convinced Akeredolu to contest for governor in 2011 despite his friends’ defiance because he was an irascible person.

According to the late governor’s aide, he confronted Anyanwu-Akeredolu while minding their cultural differences when she issued a threat to deal with Olubunmi Ademosu, who was a special adviser to the late governor.

He stressed that he was not pleased with how she was captured on tape accusing her husband’s special adviser on public and inter-governmental relations of giving him concoctions to manage his poor health.

Recall that the First Lady had accused Ms Ademosu of an ambition to become deputy governor should the governor become incapable of completing his tenure.

Odebowale further said, “You may blame this woman for indiscretion. Marriage is a scam. I hate co-habitation. I respect my wife, but she cannot tell me not to relate with people.

“On his wife’s management, Aketi was a weakling.

“She was acting like she had more stake in Aketi’s family than anybody. What point was she proving? I knew Aketi was not sleeping with anybody.”

“No office as the office of the First Lady. Aketi shouldn’t have allowed it.”

Dispelling the rumour that the announcement of Aketi’s death was delayed, the former aide said he was only aware of Akeredolu’s death when his phone was spammed with calls for confirmation, adding, “I had to ring his immediate younger brother, Prof Wole Akeredolu who lectures in LASU. I asked if he had heard of Emperor (that is what we call him in a close circle). He said he still spoke with him on Christmas Day, making him the last person who spoke with him before his death.

He maintained his four children were not even aware of his death until the news broke.

While also clarifying the rumour on having anything to hide after Akeredolu’s death, prompting his early resignation, Odebowale refuted squandering the state’s fund and intimated that his action was borne out of his love and loyalty for his late boss and that there was nothing needed of him to continue in the new dispensation of the present governor — Lucky Ayedatiwa.

“I have nothing against whosoever is in office now. I have nothing left to do in the office when the person who brought me there is no longer there. I can’t remain in that space and pretend.

“I can’t be as committed as I was with Akeredolu because I got all his support. It was not politicking. He gave me the wings to fly. He was my brother like a family,” he added.

Odebowale, along with the Commissioner for Infrastructure, Lands and Housing, Aminu Raimi, and the Special Assistant on Photography to the former governor, Olawale Abolade, resigned following the death of Akeredolu in Germany on Wednesday.

Fiscus105:



I STILL NOT FATHOM WHY, WIFE OF SITTING GOV WOULD GO AS FAR AS EAST TO CONTEST A SENATORIAL SEAT, LET SAY SHE WON,SHE WOULD HAVE LEFT ABANDONED HER HUSBAND AS GOV IN ONDO AND GO TO ABUJA TO STAY AS SENATOR.

gasparpisciotta:
Women can bring down the strongest of men, ask Samson.
Like The way My mum brought down My dads dick with gonorrhea

omowolewa:
If Aketi were to be alive, can you tell him this?

Now that we know, what should we do

Nonny95:


The whole thing is tiring.

Imagine a couple that lived for 37 years.

Meaning that out of 37 years, 30 years were spent without being a governor. If the wife was this bad, why didn't Aketi pursue her?

PlayMaker14:
The way these people are trying to shift all the blame to the woman is really surprising....

Would all these blame games come into play if her name was Betty Adeosun?

Allow the family mourn peacefully.... Except you are angry the First lady did not open the looting vault for you and your cronies.


Shameless people.... Na woman body una sabi show power, but when Fulani herdsmen land, una go run enter Benin Republic.

Fiscus105:



If you closer to the woman, you would know that media didn't carry, 1/10 of her atrocities.

PlayMaker14:
Her name is Betty Anyanwu.... That's why.

PressMyButton:
Betty was overbearing, overreaching and overstepping. End of the day, she lost both the man and power. When she was down with cancer, Aketi stood by her, gave her the best treatment money can buy and gave you a second chance to life. When Aketi was down with cancer and it was your turn to reciprocate, you allowed greed take the better part of you, you kept him in secret, denied him proper care until it became a little too late. You failed a man that could still have been alive.

Fiscus105:



If you closer to the woman, you would know that media didn't carry, 1/10 of her atrocities.


Check image below, as a wife of sitting gov in which her husband just started his second term as governor


Meanwhile, if you are a xtian, I will advise you to go and read story of queen that Esther replaced as queen. What she did that made king, her husband to chase her out from palace.

PlayMaker14:
Don't give me that bull crap please...

Why didn't y'all talk about her atrocities during her 37 years of marriage to your brother?


Why is it now that Aketi is no more you guys are now talking?

By the way, are you closer to Betty Akeredolu for you to know her “Atrocities”?

PressMyButton:

Then you're either being deliberately mischievous or proudly ignorant. If you followed up in the news on her stories, would probably have cured much of your ignorance

PlayMaker14:



I can write an article about your dad, label him a notorious thief, rapist and drug dealer, submit it to one of these hungry print Media houses (Maybe Sahara) who feeds on propaganda, and I believe with this your shallow mentality, you will believe it.

eliyke:
lolz 😆🤣😆,hate 4 a tribe go just mk some people dey yarn dust for marriage of 37years wey Dem parents sef fit don divorce sef

PlayMaker14:
You guys with evil and malicious propaganda.... Well that's your stuck-in-trade.

PressMyButton:

Obviously, you are not aware or remotely close to the politics of Ondo state. I haven't heard of a woman wielded so much control, not even Patience Jonathan.