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Nigeria: Anti-Adedibu Forces Regroup
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Vanguard (Lagos)
15 June 2008
Posted to the web 16 June 2008
Ola Ajayi
Ibadan
ERstwhile governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has said that now that his former political godfather, Chief Lamidi Adedibu, has died, there will be sanity in the politics of Oyo State.
Ladoja, who spoke exclusively with Sunday Vanguard amid indications that political forces opposed to the deceased politician may regroup and launch themselves into reckoning, stated, weekend, that what the late politician did to him notwithstanding he did not have anything against him. He said that though he maligned his personality before former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the erstwhile Nigerian leader believed his story hook, line and sinker, what happened to him thereafter got the approval of the Almighty God.
Ladoja said, "Chief Adedibu was not my enemy. What he did to me was according to the wish of God. He told the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, what I did not say and created enmity between the president and me. If he had offended God in any way, that is between him and God".
On what happens to the politics of the state after the death of the popular politician, he replied that it was too early to make comments, adding that people should wait and see how events unfold in the state. But he said that now that Adedibu is no more, "something is very clear, and that is, the politics of the state would now have new look." According to him, "we will now have sane politics in the state"
In his own reaction, the former minister of power and steel, Elder Wole Oyelese, prayed that God should forgive Adedibu's sins, stressing that as a human being he might have made his own mistakes but his (Adedibu) style of politics would not have succeeded if some other people had not supported him. He described the late politician as a notable politician, who came and played his part the way he believed he should play it.
The national president of the Central Council of Ibadan Indigenes, Chief Yussuf Akande, stated that the death of the politician would bring a resurging hope to the politics of the state.
According to him, "he was a remarkable politician whose role cannot be forgotten so easily. We never expected that he would die so soon. Indeed, his death is end of an era." He explained that the politics of the state would now have a new look with the demise of the politician.
Akande said, "As a person, he was a nice, loving and sympathetic man. Naturally, changes would come to the politics of the state. Things would not be the same as they were when he was alive. There is hope and I hope politicians would learn. One thing that should be noted is that most of the things they said he did might not have been authorized by him. They ascribed everything to him because he was a powerful politician".
In his own reaction, one of the members of the Olubadan-in-council, Chief Omowale Kuye, said that he was sad when he heard of Adedibu's death even though he was a complex individual. Kuye believed that those who were the beneficiaries of the style of politics he played would always sing his praises and would never see anything he did wrongly and those who were the victims of his antics would fault his style.
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He said, "Since I'm not a politician, I'm neither a beneficiary nor a loser by his death. God would forgive his misdeed if he had any. I pray that God would receive him into aljanat because I knew he was a Muslim whether he was a good or a bad one, it is only God who can judge. He will be a loss to all those politicians who had used him but, for us, we enjoyed seeing him. Most of the time, we enjoyed his rascality though it might be hurtful at times." Meanwhile, some politicians opposed to the domineering influence of the deceased PDP leader in Oyo State politics were said to be planning to regroup, with a view to sanitising politics in the state.
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