THE governorship candidate of the Accord Party in Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, on Thursday, blamed former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for the defeat suffered by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South-West zone.
The former governor told newsmen in Ibadan that such ‘evil’ befell the PDP because Obasanjo, who was the architect of the party’s downfall, was an ungrateful man before man and God.
Ladoja, who recalled how Obasanjo was invited to run for the presidency in 1999, even when he (Obasanjo) was penniless, said he soon became a monster, lording it, not only over the party, but also over those who made him to be what he is today.
“I have not seen him today but I know that wherever he is now, he is a sad man,” he said, listing the perceived wrongdoings of the ex-president, whom he described as not only ungodly but also sinful before man.
“You must be good at home but he did not only lose his polling booth in 1999 but equally lost his ward and could not win a single councillorship seat when God, through us, made him president. The man who was penniless then in 1999 is today the richest black man in the world.
“God is not sleeping. All the gains we recorded for the PDP in 2003 in the South-West have been lost. Even in Ogun State where he comes from, he has lost all. He is not a happy man today, though I have not seen him but I know if he is a human being, he should not be a happy man by now, seeing all the achievements of the party under his care lost to the opposition who he variously derided,” he said.
According to him, he warned the party “to reconcile itself with the people of South-West but I was not taken seriously but today the people have turned their back on the PDP.”
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Ladoja lambasts OBJ ‘He caused PDP’s defeat in S/West’