Oyo ACN accuses
Ladoja of setting people against govt.
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Oyo State chapter, has accused
former governor of the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, of setting people of the state against the government, for an ulterior aim of profiting from the division.
This was made this known in a release issued by its Publicity
Secretary, Mr. Dauda Kolawole, in a reply to a news report credited to the former
governor blaming the ACN-led government for the impasse in the rotational
chairmanship of the State Council of Obas and Chiefs.
According to the ACN, what Ladoja was doing in the state
recently could be likened to a “rehash of the politics of hate and falsehood he
is known for, targeted towards gaining undue advantage in the hearts of a
section of the people” and counseled him to accept that Oyo State had since
left that era.
The party said that being a chief of the Olubadan, the
former governor could not claim ignorance of the fact that the issue of the
rotation of the council was already in court, blaming the statement of the
Accord Party chief on his penchant for promoting disharmony among peace-loving
people.
“The issue of the rotation of Obaship in Oyo State is in court
already. That Ladoja is bringing it up, with the aim of setting the governor,
on one side, against a man he reveres and whom he has great respect for and on another side, the Obas against one
another, is not new to us. What is new is that, this time, he has chosen to
disrespect the judiciary by commenting on a matter that is at present before
it,” the ACN said.
Reminding the former governor that it was the
same judiciary he disrespects which rescued him when his former
colleagues in the PDP, whom he now hobnobs with, illegally impeached
him, the ACN warned that this could breed anarchy in the land.
Stating that the relationship between the Olubadan and the
governor was that of a father to his son, the release said that, in appreciation
of the role being played by the governor in changing the landscape of
Ibadanland, the Olubadan would, next week, install the governor as the Aare Atunluse of Ibadanland.
“We pity Ladoja. He is frustrated that, in spite of all his attempts
at pitching the Ibadans and the Olubadan against the governor, this shenanigan
has not worked. He is further frustrated that the Olubadan, in defiance of his
campaign of calumny, is appreciating the governor and the Olubadan-in-Council
is not hiding its pleasant surprise that an Ibadan governor could change the
face of the city this much,” the party concluded.
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