
Abiola Ajimobi and Governor Rasheed Ladoja
Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has said that there is no misunderstanding between him and the former governor Rashidi Ladoja . Ajimobi disclosed that Ladoja who is the leader of Accord Party in the state, is not only his cousin, but a complete gentle man.
He however blamed those he described as political jobbers for the situation. Ajimobi who made the clarification during a media chat with journalists, a programme, which was aired live on the state broadcasting Television (BCOS) held at the government House, Agodi, Ibadan on Monday night, reference to his presence at the wedding of Ladoja's daughter in Lagos recently, where he recalled that he sat beside the former governor at the event to buttress his claim that there is no love lost between him and Ladoja.
However, governor Ajimobi blamed those he referred to as political jobbers and sycophants for the seeming crisis between them."Let me tell you that all the things people say that Ladoja did or say, are not true.
. Those people who have lost out are behind this. Thank God you have a job. They don't have a job. What they do is to go to Ladoja begging to be this or that. They are political jobbers, but gradually they will soon realise that what we are doing here is politics of development, not bitterness.
"The more they play all these pedestrian politics and we don't play it with them, the more they move away from it," the governor said. But, the truth of the matter, governor Ajimobi said was that "Ladoja is interested in contesting for the seat I occupied. And I too wants to run, but we shall all meet there. "In politics, even two brothers do disagree especially when they are eyeing same office," he said.
The governor who took reporters' questions in a calm manner, also reeled out the achievements of his administration in the last 1000 days in office, and what he has in stock for the remaining 440 days.
He informed the gathering that the Ibadan circular road, was still in the pipeline, but the bill of N55billion presented by the contractor is unavailable for now.
"So, a good leader will need to prioritise. The circular road requires a lot of money and we don't have it now, so, we put it aside. But, we are still looking for financiers to execute the project," he added.