Akeredolu’s niece fires back at Betty

Funke Akeredolu-Aruna, the niece of late former governor Rotimi Akeredolu, has responded to her uncle’s widow Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu’s statement about her.

On Monday, Anyanwu-Akeredolu slammed Akeredolu-Aruna on Instagram for supporting Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa, Akeredolu’s former deputy, for governorship.

Akeredolu-Aruna, formerly Akeredolu’s deputy chief protocol officer, expressed disappointment that Anyanwu-Akeredolu was not supporting her against Aiyedatiwa.

She said: “I happened to be one of the assistant conveners of Orimisan Lucky Aiyedatiwa Women in Ondo State, a supporting group for his reelection.

“It was during the programme that they took my picture. It is just politics and I want to believe that it is the opposition that took that picture and started sending it around to blackmail me.

“I think that is where the late governor’s wife now got the picture and you know she was disappointed that I’m not in their camp.

“Everybody knows I’m in Lucky’s camp. I have always been there when the whole shenanigans started.

“What happened between the late governor and Aiyedatiwa is just pure politics. Even on the issue of impeachment.

“Mummy that is fighting me and attacking me now, has her reason because she is not supporting this present governor. At least from Lucky’s side, he gave my uncle a befitting burial which I think he did quite well.”