The governorship candidate of the Accord Party in
Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has attributed the failure of the
Peoples Democratic Party in the South West during the last general
elections to former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Ladoja, who was a member of the PDP’s Board of Trustees, apportioned the blame in a post-election press conference at his Bodija, Ibadan residence on Thursday.
He said that Obasanjo was the architect of the party’s downfall because he remained an ungrateful man.
He recalled how he persuaded some other unnamed persons to invite Obasanjo to contest the 1999 presidential election on the platform of the party.
The former governor regretted that the former president soon began to lord it over other party chiefs who made him.
He said, “I have not seen him (Obasanjo) but I know that he will be a sad man wherever he is now.
“We parted ways because I told him he could not run for third term.”
Similarly, prominent leaders from the Ogun West Senatorial District of Ogun State have accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of scuttling the ambition of the area to produce a successor to Otunba Gbenga Daniel in the last governorship elections
They accused Obasanjo of using a Yewa indigene, Chief Adetunji Olurin, to play “the spoilers show”, thus denying the Yewa/Awori people the opportunity, which had eluded them since the state was created over 35 years ago.
Speaking during what they described as an “appreciative visit” to the Asoludero Court, Sagamu residence of the state Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, on Thursday, the Ogun West leaders including the former Minister of State for Education, Mrs. Iyabo Anisulowo, the Asiwaju of Aworiland, Senator Ayo Otegbola, Chief Alamu Alagbe, Dr Dele Ogunsiji, Chief Sina Adeboye and Chief (Mrs) Iyabo Apampa among others, castigated Obasanjo for the botched Yewa Awori agenda.
“Chief Obasanjo used Gen Adetunji Olurin to destablise us for his own ulterior motive and despite all efforts, Chief Olurin refused to step down for our consensus candidate,” Otegbola said.
But the former President through the Chairman of Media and Publicity of Olurin’s campaign, Chief Lai Labode, stated that the group of elders should be blamed for the botched Yewa/Awori agenda.
“Obasanjo worked tirelessly, spending his time and resources to ensure that a Yewa man in person of Chief Adetunji Olurin became the governor but all the efforts were thwarted by certain identifiable leaders from the area,” he stated.
Olusegun Obasanjo also blamed the Peoples Democratic Party loss of Ogun State on the people’s frustration with the style of governance of the Otunba Gbenga Daniel’s led administration.
Obasanjo, in his reaction to the loss of the state to the opposition party, Action Congress of Nigeria, in the governorship election said that the people of the state decided to vote for the ACN and not his candidate, Chief Adetunji Olurin, because of the pervading frustration of the people of the state with the PDP-led government in the last eight years.
Meanwhile Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has advised ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo to retire from active politics.
In an exclusive interview with our correspondent, on Thursday, Aregbesola said it was high time Obasanjo quit politics and took a deserved rest.
According to the governor, the former president should preoccupy himself with his United Nations peacekeeping duty rather than engage in local politics.
Aregbesola described Obasanjo as a statesman, who had served the country to the best of his ability.
He said, “There are political problems in Libya, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Tunisia, Uganda, among other African countries. Former President Obasanjo should help in these areas as an eminent citizen of the world.”
By Tunde Odesola, Francis Falola, Sesan Olufowobi and Olalekan Adetayo, Courtesy Of: Punch
Ladoja, who was a member of the PDP’s Board of Trustees, apportioned the blame in a post-election press conference at his Bodija, Ibadan residence on Thursday.
He said that Obasanjo was the architect of the party’s downfall because he remained an ungrateful man.
He recalled how he persuaded some other unnamed persons to invite Obasanjo to contest the 1999 presidential election on the platform of the party.
The former governor regretted that the former president soon began to lord it over other party chiefs who made him.
He said, “I have not seen him (Obasanjo) but I know that he will be a sad man wherever he is now.
“We parted ways because I told him he could not run for third term.”
Similarly, prominent leaders from the Ogun West Senatorial District of Ogun State have accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of scuttling the ambition of the area to produce a successor to Otunba Gbenga Daniel in the last governorship elections
They accused Obasanjo of using a Yewa indigene, Chief Adetunji Olurin, to play “the spoilers show”, thus denying the Yewa/Awori people the opportunity, which had eluded them since the state was created over 35 years ago.
Speaking during what they described as an “appreciative visit” to the Asoludero Court, Sagamu residence of the state Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, on Thursday, the Ogun West leaders including the former Minister of State for Education, Mrs. Iyabo Anisulowo, the Asiwaju of Aworiland, Senator Ayo Otegbola, Chief Alamu Alagbe, Dr Dele Ogunsiji, Chief Sina Adeboye and Chief (Mrs) Iyabo Apampa among others, castigated Obasanjo for the botched Yewa Awori agenda.
“Chief Obasanjo used Gen Adetunji Olurin to destablise us for his own ulterior motive and despite all efforts, Chief Olurin refused to step down for our consensus candidate,” Otegbola said.
But the former President through the Chairman of Media and Publicity of Olurin’s campaign, Chief Lai Labode, stated that the group of elders should be blamed for the botched Yewa/Awori agenda.
“Obasanjo worked tirelessly, spending his time and resources to ensure that a Yewa man in person of Chief Adetunji Olurin became the governor but all the efforts were thwarted by certain identifiable leaders from the area,” he stated.
Olusegun Obasanjo also blamed the Peoples Democratic Party loss of Ogun State on the people’s frustration with the style of governance of the Otunba Gbenga Daniel’s led administration.
Obasanjo, in his reaction to the loss of the state to the opposition party, Action Congress of Nigeria, in the governorship election said that the people of the state decided to vote for the ACN and not his candidate, Chief Adetunji Olurin, because of the pervading frustration of the people of the state with the PDP-led government in the last eight years.
Meanwhile Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has advised ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo to retire from active politics.
In an exclusive interview with our correspondent, on Thursday, Aregbesola said it was high time Obasanjo quit politics and took a deserved rest.
According to the governor, the former president should preoccupy himself with his United Nations peacekeeping duty rather than engage in local politics.
Aregbesola described Obasanjo as a statesman, who had served the country to the best of his ability.
He said, “There are political problems in Libya, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Tunisia, Uganda, among other African countries. Former President Obasanjo should help in these areas as an eminent citizen of the world.”
By Tunde Odesola, Francis Falola, Sesan Olufowobi and Olalekan Adetayo, Courtesy Of: Punch
No comments:
Post a Comment