The Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Public Service and Establishment, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, has said that he is not interested in becoming the deputy governor of Ekiti State.
Ojudu said this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Ado Ekiti on Saturday by his media aide, Mr. Dimeji Daniels.
Reacting to a report in a newspaper (not The PUNCH) on Saturday, that he was one of the possible replacements for the late deputy governor, Mrs. Funmi Olayinka, who died of cancer on April 6, Ojudu said he was still mourning Olayinka, who he described as his "blood sister."
He said he had never nursed such ambition and would not nurse it.
Describing himself as a stakeholder in the development of the state, the lawmaker representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District said he was instrumental in Olayinka becoming the deputy governor.
He said, "If I was not interested in the position six years ago, I wonder what the rumour about my being interested now is all about."
He urged the peddlers of the rumour to desist from dragging his name into the race for the deputy governorship position.
