I’m trying to prevent my husband from taking concoctions prepared by his mistress – Gov. Akeredolu’s wife

The wife of the Ondo State Governor, Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu has admitted that she’s struggling to stop her husband, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu from taking concoctions prepared by his mistress.

Betty made the revelation on her social media page.

“… I have to be at (the) gate not to allow any concoction to get in,” Mrs Akeredolu wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday.

She also posted a picture of herself and her husband sitting on a couch and added: “Cough! I have carried my love away to a place he loves. Odoyewu,” using R&B singer Kizz Daniel’s song to slam her critics.

The governor had recently confirmed that he was sick but said there was “no cause for alarm” over his frail health, adding that he was recuperating speedily. The latest post came a few weeks after her husband, Rotimi Akeredolu travelled abroad for his official “annual” leave.

A spokesman for the governor, Richard Olatunde, had in a statement said the leave would last 15 working days, adding that Mr Akeredolu had already written to the House of Assembly and Deputy Governor Lucky Orimisan would act on his behalf pending his return on April 26.

While on leave, critics of Mr Akeredolu’s family suggested that the governor travelled outside the country to treat himself for an undisclosed ailment. The ailment had prompted him to take local herbs from one of his female aides, alleged to be the governor’s mistress.

In January, the governor’s wife cried out that her husband was on a “sick bed” after eating a concoction from one of his female aides, Bunmi Ademosun. In a leaked audio, Mrs Anyanwu-Akeredolu accused Ms Ademosun, the special adviser to the governor on multilateral and inter-governmental affairs, of “sneaking” to give her husband local herbs to drink, warning the female aide to “stay away from her husband.”