The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has advised former governors of the state, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala and Senator Rashidi Ladoja, to stop shedding what it described as crocodile tears over the recent rumoured impeachment bid of the state House of Assembly against the incumbent, Senator Abiola Ajimobi.
The APC said the two ex-governors were products of chaotic governments and could not now pretend that theirs were governments of peace.
In a statement issued by the party Chairman, Chief Akin Oke, in reaction to two separate statements credited to the former governors, the state APC said they lacked the moral right to postulate or advise any government on peace since they headed governments that were purportedly renowned for brigandage, thuggery, bloodshed, where peace was elusive to the people of the state.
“Is it not an irony that Akala and Ladoja will tell us how peaceful our state should be with a House of Assembly that is devoid of rancour? Both of them ran governments whose Houses of Assembly were like Israel and Palestine and the Governor’s Office like Gaza, even when members were of the same Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)”, the APC stated.
The party said both Alao-Akala and Ladoja were banking on the short memory theory of Nigerians in seeking to come back to rule the state.
The ruling APC said if the two former governors were banking on a repeat of the Ekiti governorship election experience in Oyo State, they would be thoroughly disappointed.
“They both forcefully removed the famous Oyo State, the land of firsts, from the radar of development and dragged government to their levels. In the hands of one, Oyo became no more than a cosmetic kit and in the hands of the other, Oyo became drab, clueless and without form. It took the pedigree and depth of Governor Abiola Ajimobi to retrieve our dear state from social and governmental disintegration”, said the party.
Oke said the APC-led government in the state would go down in history as the first party to win the governorship twice, stating that both Alao-Akala and Ladoja would soon be retired from active politics after the 2015 elections.
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