The Ondo State Government has pardoned a civil servant in the state, who was suspended for spreading fake news about the death of the state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.
The Head of Service, Niran Adeyemo, had last week disclosed the suspension of the civil servant who was accused of spreading the false information on his Facebook page.
While breaking the Ramadan fast, Iftar, with the muslim faithful in Akure on Sunday, Akeredolu said, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they were doing.”
The governor, who was making his first public appearance in the state since March 2022 ending, frowned at the high rate fake news.
Akeredolu added that civil servants should channel their energy into more meaningful conversation of sharing good news in the State, rather than spreading fake news.
It was reported how Akeredolu travelled to Germany for medical treatment days after the March 26 All Progressives Congress (APC) National Convention in Abuja.
Days after the report, a blog rumoured that he had died in a German hospital.
Meanwhile, speaking on arrival in the state, the governor, confirmed he was in Germany for his “deserved rest.”
He however described the rumour of his death as wicked and politically motivated.
“On the 1st, I took up my deserved rest in Germany, this is what I have done in the last a week and the half until I heard about this, the best way you can describe it is a wicked rumor that I’m not alive. They said I was bed ridden, that I was on life support but my support is Christ,” the governor had said.
