Obasanjo Lied About My Impeachment, Says Ladoja

Former Oyo State Governor, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has said former President Olusegun Obasanjo lied about what he said caused him to be impeached and removed from office as governor in 2005.

Ladoja said in a statement by his media aide, Alhaji Bashir Latinwo, that the former president fabricated lies just to suit him and rewrite history.

Obasanjo had said at the launch of ‘Amazing Grace’ a biography of former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala to mark his 70th birthday that Ladoja’s failure to heed his advice to ‘accommodate’ Chief Lamidi Adedibu and Alhaji Yekini Adeojo caused him to be removed from office.

Ladoja was removed but the apex court quashed the impeachment and removal and reinstated him.

The statement read, ‘’The former President had forgotten that the nation’s apex court had ruled that ‘there was no impeachment.

‘’Obasanjo can be forgiven because he is an old man who may not recollect the past accurately, anymore, if not why should he say that Ladoja became Governor in 2003 through the grace of God, Baba Adedibu and Alhaji Adeojo when the later also attempted to become Governor.

‘’Did Obasanjo forget that Adeojo contested the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) primary election which was held on 24th December, 2002 at the Liberty Stadium, Ibadan?

‘’Chief Obasanjo, in trying to rewrite history has forgotten that he told Baba Emmanuel Alayande in Ibadan on his birthday in December, 2005 that Senator Ladoja should resign his position as Governor, otherwise he would be impeached?

‘’And, through to his boasts, the illegal act was carried out few days later, but thank God the impropriety was quashed by the Court of highest jurisdiction.

‘’Let Chief Obasanjo be told, point blank, that no amount of damage control employed, his past is closely hunting him.

‘’Ladoja therefore has no regret; he came to serve and he did just that to the best of his ability the result of which is the love his people have for him, till-date,’’ the spokesman emphasized.