Oyo State governor, Senator Isiaq Abiola Ajimobi has sacked the Accord Party nominees of former governor of the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, from his government.
Members of the Accord Party were serving in the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) led government in the state due to an alliance they worked out during the gubernatorial elections.
Those asked to go include two commissioners, two special advisers, some chairmen and members of boards, caretaker chairman of a local government and others who were ex-Governor Ladoja nominees in the government.
Ajimobi, in a personally-signed letter delivered to Ladoja in his Bodija, Ibadan, house on Wednesday, traced the history of his alliance with the former governor and how, in the last few months, Ladoja had consistently broken the tenets of the accord by casting aspersion on a government in which he vicariously participated, through the participation of his nominees and proxies, which included his younger brother.
Governor Ajimobi however stated that he felt “constrained to take this painful but inevitable decision, in view of our personal relationship.”
The letter read in part: “Immediately after (the 2011) election, because of the peculiar configuration of the electoral balance, it was obvious that, for the good of our state and its development, I needed to extend my handshake across other frontiers.
Governor Ajimobi said in spite of the initial opposition by his party echelon which had reasoned that Ladoja’s ambition to govern the state again would destroy the alliance, he stuck to the agreement with Ladoja, believing that, as a sportsman, the former governor would respect the spirit and letter of the alliance.
“Regrettably, recent developments, in terms of the conduct of your people and the campaign of calumny which is recorded frequently in the newspapers, unsubstantiated allegations, as well as unwarranted vitriolic attacks against my person and the government under my leadership, have made me come to the conclusion that these recent campaigns against me are incompatible with the spirit of our alliance,” the governor said in the letter.
Source: Daily Trust
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