The All Progressives Congress in Oyo State has described as untrue the media reports which stated that Senator Abiola Ajimobi had restricted journalists from covering activities in his office claiming the report was a clear misinformation and misinterpretation of a routine process. 

 Reacting to the development, the ruling APC, in a statement issued by its Director of Publicity and Strategy, Olawale Sadare, which was made available to CEOAFRICA said that the reports as circulated by a section of the media was a misinterpretation of a normal routine accreditation exercise blaming it on poor handling by some concerned media personalities. 

   "The Secretariat of our great party was dismayed when a senior correspondent of a national daily (names withheld) called to inform us about the development and immediate inquiries revealed that no order barring journalists from the Governor's Office emanated either directly or indirectly from Sen. Abiola Ajimobi who was not even in town as at the time the event unfolded.

  "However, we would like to put it on record that what happened was a normal security procedure being coordinated by the appropriate authorities. The Memo, in question, was calling the attention of the concerned media partners to undertake a routine accreditation exercise which is a normal practice in all sane climes.

   "The APC government of Sen. Ajimobi has always recognized members of the Fourth Estate of the Realm as wonderful partners in progress in view of their invaluable contribution to the emergence and sustenance of the new order of decent, dynamic and transparent governance in the state. This explains why the governor maintains his age-long personal relationship with most journalists in the country regardless of many inhibiting factors. 

   "However, a situation where every Tom, Dick and Harry who calls himself or herself a journalist or media practitioner is allowed a free entry and 24/7 stay around the Governor's Office and within the premises of the Agodi

Government Secretariat is risky, even to genuine news hunters, especially in view of the prevailing security challenges in the country.

    "Therefore, it is expedient on every media organization to reach out to the relevant officers in the Governor's Office to perfect the accreditation process required of their representative(s) without any fear of discrimination or denial of their statutory rights. The present administration has never contemplated impeding the media from performing its function and this would never happen." Sadare assured.