Former President Olusegun Obasanjo , on Thursday , described the late Chief Lamidi Adedibu as a “very honest ” politician , who helped the Peoples Democratic Party to win the governorship election in Oyo State in 2003 .
Although Obasanjo did not mention former Governor Rashidi Ladoja , he was the one who won the 2003 governorship poll in the state .
Obasanjo , while delivering the keynote address at the book launch in honour of Adedibu at the Trenchard Hall of the University of Ibadan , said Adedibu left good legacies.
The former president , who wrote the foreword in the book titled ‘ Adedibu , the strongman and generalissimo of Nigerian politics’ , said loyalists of the late politician never left him because he was very generous .
Obasanjo said he was one of those who left good legacies in the South -West politics , saying he knew him very late .
Obasanjo said , “ He (Adedibu ) said he contested in 1954 against the father of the man who was seeking to contest governorship election then ( 2003 ). I looked at him again and he said he was sure of what he said .
“ Baba was good to us and that is why I came here today and the same thing for some of the people here . We would not have been able to produce a PDP governor in Oyo State when I was the president .
“ I went to Baba Alayande when I was the president because he took me as a son . I asked him , Baba, don ’ t you love me again ? I said why don’t you support our party ? He told me that the person who was in control then was not competent to be governor in Oyo State and I understood .