The recent piece of news making rounds that High Chief Rashidi Ladoja endorsed Gov Seyi Makinde for second term simply because he granted audience to and received Chief Bayo Lawal on a private visit is pedestrian and childish.
That an elder statesman, which High Chief Ladoja is, extended such courtesy to an old acquaintance should not mean anything more than that, but for the desperation of the Makinde/ Bayo Lawal camp for High Chief Rashidi Ladoja’s endorsement by default.
It should be placed on record that Baba Ladoja has not endorsed anybody.
He is an elder statesman who is cultured and urbane, willing to show courtesy to even those undeserving of it.
Any claim of endorsement on account of that courtesy does not only reveal the desperation in the Makinde/ Bayo Lawal camp, it also confirms that they have drifted from reality and are lost in dreamland.
According to Gov Makinde, he has no Godfather and he has no need of one so the Makinde/ Bayo Lawal camp need not go to town on an endorsement they do not really need.
They should continue denying the local government authorities of their statutory functions by starving them of the needed funds; wasting Oyo State resources on daily diesel generators expenses and unleashing thugs on the citizenry. But they should not make any attempt to drag the good name of Baami Ladoja into their retrogressive style of governance. Baami Ladoja has paid his due in politics both in Oyo State and in Nigeria at large. He does not deserve such disservice.
The general public is hereby reliably informed.
Adekola Adeoye was youth leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Oyo State.
