Two concerned groups, having affiliation with Ondo state communities, at the weekend urged the senate to discountenance a petition that the ministerial nominee from the state, Hon. Bunmi Ojo, does not have a valid National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate.

The groups, Social Rehabilitation Group (SRG), led by Dr. Marindoti Oludare, and Ondo Solidarity Forum (OSF), chaired by Hon. Dipo Okeyomi, in separate statements, dismissed the petition as frivolous and without substance.

Oludare, the SRG Convener who is a US-based medical doctor and old schoolmate of the ministerial nominee, said while he personally opposed the concept of the NYSC, he had water-tight evidence to prove that Ojo, popularly known as BTO, duly enlisted in the youth service scheme and was issued a valid certificate.

Oludare, in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, enjoined the lawmakers to dismiss the petitioners as “meddlesome interlopers and insipid rabble rousers.”

He sneered at the petitioners tagged ‘Concerned Ondo Patriots’, stating, “I have watched with great concern/interest, the attempt by some group-‘The concerned Ondo Parrots’, to derail the nomination of Bunmi Tunji Ojo as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This group tried to raise a dud issue over his NYSC certificate which he duly has.

Credit: The Nation