Ogun 2019: Mass Exodus hits Ladi Adebutu’s camp
Segun Seriki, Ex-DG mobilisation, Rev. Salau, others desert him
Say he’s a sinking ship





By Alabi Eletiofe
Confusion has hit the camp of a member of the House of Representatives, Ladi Adebutu, who is aspiring to succeed the incumbent governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun.
Besides observers wondering how intemperate someone who has not even spent a year out of his four-year mandate could be angling to be governor and thereby abandoning his primary responsibility at the House of Representatives, there are growing concerns about his state of mental health.

However, that is a story for another day. The news now is the rate at which stalwarts of the party who had hitherto flocked to him are abandoning him.
As at the last count, over 20 leading politicians across the states and thousands of their supporters have deserted him.
Some of them are a former member of the House of Representatives in the Third Republic and Director-General of the Goodluck/Sambo Presidential Campaign in Ogun State, Hon. Segun Seriki; Director-General in charge of Mobilisation for his forlorn ambition, Rev. Olusola Salau; Lola Soyombo and Otunba Kola Akinyemi.
Others are Chief Kolapo Ogunjobi (a.k.a Collindale), who has been described by those who know him as erudite and eloquent; Boye Olusola (a.k.a Uncle B), Hon. Jigan Taiwo, Hon. Ladi Olabinjo and Chief (Mrs) Josephine Makanjuola (a.k.a Mamak).
Seriki, it would be recalled, was the arrowhead of the Lado for Governor Project. Now, he has been used and abandoned. (We shall soon serve you the salacious details of how they fell apart).

According to sources, besides losing these party stalwarts and thousands of their supporters to the structure led by Senator Buruji Kashamu which also enjoys the support of the majority of the party exco in the state, it is a major source of concern to the shrinking Lado group that they may lose more members as the party congresses draw nearer.
The party congresses have been scheduled to begin on Saturday, 23rd April, 2016, with the Ward Congresses. This will be followed by the Local Government Area, State and Zonal Congresses billed for Saturday, 30th April, 7th May and 14th May, 2016 respectively.
The National Convention comes up on Saturday, the 21st of May, 2016.