- Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu: “She is a black Serpent”
- Akeredolu’s Niece:”I don’t Care…I’ll Support Aiyedatiwa”
By Abiola Olawale
Barely days after the late governor of Ondo state, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu was laid to rest, his family members began a fierce battle of words.
This is as the wife of the late governor Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, has traded words with her late husband’s niece, Funke Akeredolu Aruna, for supporting the governorship ambition of the sitting governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa.
Betty, who took to her official Instagram page lashed her husband’s niece, calling her a ‘bloody serpent’
The New Diplomat reports that the outburst might not be unconnected to the situation in which Betty fell out with Aiyedatiwa, who was then the deputy governor, over his alleged disloyalty to Akeredolu while he was indisposed.
Betty on her Instagram wrote “Behold the face of Aketi’s niece, Funke Akeredolu Aruna, the former deputy Chief protocol to Aketi, shamelessly parades as ‘I am lucky’ Bloody serpent! Time will tell if she is truly lucky!”
However, in a swift reaction, Aruna, said that the widow of his late brother was ” disappointed that I’m not in their camp against the present governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa.
She wrote, ”l happened to be one of the assistant convener of Orimisan Lucky Aiyedatiwa women in Ondo state, a supporting group for his reelection.
” It was during the program 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’s 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.”
