|
AD gives Ladoja 60-day ultimatum to
resign
By Sola Shittu
Reporter, Ibadan.
Alliance for Democracy
(AD) on Thursday gave Governor Rashidi Ladoja a 60-day ultimatum to resign as
the governor of Oyo State over what the party described as retrogression, incompetence and
imbecility of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) government in the last
18 months.
But in a swift
reaction, Special Adviser on Strategy and Media, Prince Ade Adekanbi, dismissed
the allegations and said AD was only trying trying to seek relevance.
“It is not in our character to
react to people who are just trying to seek relevance. As far as we are
concerned we are on the right
path. We shall never be distracted by any faction of AD in the state, ”
Adekanbi added.
AD Chairman, Chief
Samuel Farinu, addressing a press conference at Yemetu
Ibadan said that the Ladoja administration had been a monumental disaster and
disservice to the state.
He added that though
the PDP administration in Oyo State is one and half years old but it has been
one and half years of retrogressiveness, incompetence and imbecility.
“Since its inception, Ladoja has presented three budgets, one
supplementary, two substantive with billions of naira said to have been
expended on imaginary projects.
His administration is
no doubt a monumental disaster and what the people demand from him and his team
is resignation letter”.
The AD considers
Ladoja’s selection to rule Oyo State as a great disservice to pace setter
state of Nigeria.
Ladoja is hereby given
60 days to consider the desirability of leaving office. For the people of Oyo
State will no longer tolerate a government of ineptitude, imbecility and gross
inefficiency.”
Chief Farinu who was troubled by the several misdeeds of Ladoja’s administration regretted
that the PDP government sacked 400 workers employed by Lam
Adesina’s
government on the basis that the state government cannot afford N6million
monthly salary, yet Ladoja could afford to rehabilitate his office for
N180 million and
purchase vehicles worth N200 million for his aides and renovated the Government
House for N300million.
He further alleged
that most of the viable projects left behind by the immediate past government
were being sold by Ladoja’s government, adding, “We only hope that
before Ladoja is booted out by the masses, he would not have succeeded in
selling all our legacies.
Adekanmbi however described the allegations by
the AD as a ranting of a confused party saying the recent verdict of the
Economic and Financial Crime Commission
on the performances of
the Oyo government was an indication that Ladoja’s government was on the
right track.
Prince Adekanbi added
that the AD should be bold enough to come out an tell the people of the state
whether the bad state of roads inherited by the PDP government, the over
N4billion salary arrears owed civil servants in the state, over N 3 billion
gratuities owed both
the teachers and civil servants in the state, the near collapse education
system, no water, were good things that they were proud of.
|
