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Wednesday 8 May 2013

Oyo ACN accuses Ladoja of setting people against govt.

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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