A former Oyo Governor Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala has advised Governor Seyi Makinde against abusing or using foul language on his predecessors for any reason.
Recall Akala governed Oyo State for eleven months after his boss, Senator Rashidi Ladoja was impeached by members of the state house of assembly.
The Supreme quashed the impeachment and ordered Ladoja to be reinstated as the Governor of the state. In 2007, the then strongman of Oyo State politics, Lamidi Adedibu blessed memory was reported to have given the ticket to Alao Akala after a tensed primary which was reported to have held outside the state. Akala went on to win the 2007 gubernatorial election and lost his reelection bid in 2011.
While inaugurating the Light-Up Oyo State project in Ogbomoso on Wednesday, Makinde had stressed his administration was delivering on its electioneering promise to use resources to impact the people of the state.
The governor took a swipe at the opposition and vowed that “charlatans” would no longer govern Oyo.
According to Western Daily, when Akala was asked to respond to Makinde’s attack, he said: “I don’t believe he said that. If he said that he is making a mistake.
“You don’t address your predecessors as charlatans. You don’t do that. It is unstatesmanly. You just have to talk like a statesman that he is going to be after he must have left office.
“You would see the way we have been addressing him. None of us who has been in that office before has ever addressed him that he is not doing very well.
He is doing his best. The best may not be enough for the people. When it is time for the campaign, we will campaign. But don’t use that word ‘charlatan’ was unstatesmanly for him to use.”
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