Adedibu’s Widow Speaks On Late Husband, Recalls When ‘We Thought IBB Will Kill Him’

Alhaja Modinat Adedibu, one of the windows of late Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, a prominent Ibadan based politician has described how her late husband’s brand of politics was shaped by his love for justice, adding that he was a romantic, loving and generous man who hated cheating.

The widow said Adedibu was very kind and generous even to many people he did not know.

She spoke while featuring on a radio program, Parrot Xtra Hour on Radio, on Space FM 90.1.

Asked why her husband ordered his followers to drag the then Deputy Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Chief Adeniyi Akintola, to his Molete residence, she said that was not true.

She explained that her husband wanted Akintola to be on his side on a political issue and invited him.

She said, “The issue was not like that. Baba needed him to be on his side and he invited him.

“But those people sent were just overzealous. Baba (Adedibu) never told them to rough handle him.. And when he eventually got to Baba, did he announce what Baba did to him?

“In fact, there was a time the then President Ibrahim Babangida invited Baba too. He needed Baba to support what he was doing as President and Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces. We first thought Baba would be killed. But he was returned to us in one piece, nothing was done to him.”

The widow however begged those who her husband wronged to forgive him, saying he never did anything intentionally to offend anyone.

“He hated cheating. It is just that people do not show appreciation for good deeds in our society. They like going about peddling rumors about Baba.

” He is no longer with us. I have already asked for the forgiveness from people he might have offended on his behalf. We must learn to forgive one another.”