Oyo State governor-elect, Senator
Abiola Ajimobi, talked tough
yesterday, hinting that he would
probe the outgoing administration
of Otunba Adebayo Alao Akala,
when he assumes office in May 29.
The governor-elect, who had
always criticized the Akala regime
for alleged profligacy and
corruption, however, promised that
the exercise would not be a witch-
hunt.
The declaration came as the state
cautiously crawled out of a tensed
mood that had prevailed since
Wednesday’s announcement of
Ajimobi as winner of the Tuesday
gubernatorial election. Ibadan, the
state capital, had witnessed an
unofficially announced curfew,
following fears by Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) supporters,
whose stranglehold was broken
with the release of the polls result.
Early yesterday, traffic was light on
major roads, while private
businesses opened late, with
government offices deserted.
Life and boisterous activities only
picked up in the metropolis after
broom-wielding and ecstatic Action
Congress of Nigeria (ACN)
supporters went round in a convoy
of cars in jubilation over their man’s
victory. Addressing reporters in a
post-election press conference at his
Oluyole residence, Ajimobi
premised his intention to audit the
state government’s finances and
administration on the need to
ascertain where to take off and
intervene meaningfully in the lives
of the people of the state.
His words: “When you take over an
organisation, and government is
such an organisation, there is
always the need to do a review to
know where you are coming from
and where you are going, because
if you don’t know where you are
coming from, you can’t know
where you are going, call that a
probe if you like, but we are not
going there to probe anybody in the
sense of witch-hunt. In fact, I don’t
like the word probe. Stocktaking is
more like it. But, if we find anything
missing, we’ll shout.”
Ajimobi, whose house was
throbbing with drumming, singing
and dancing by streaming crowd of
supporters, saluted Governor Akala,
Senator Rashidi Ladoja of the
Accord Party and other party
candidates who contested the
election with him for giving him ‘a
good fight’, and extended his hand
of fellowship to them in moving the
state forward. To this end, he said
he planned to form an all-inclusive
government with a mission to
redeem, reform and reposition Oyo
and put it in the league of
prosperous states.
“Ours will be a rainbow coalition
government … Even God is a God
of rainbow. In His creation, He has
allowed both the good and bad
people to co-exist. But ours will be
that of redemption, transformation
and reformation,” he further
explained

Addressing reporters in a
post-election press conference at his
Oluyole residence, Ajimobi
premised his intention to audit the
state government’s finances and
administration on the need to
ascertain where to take off and
intervene meaningfully in the lives
of the people of the state.
His words: “When you take over an
organisation, and government is
such an organisation, there is
always the need to do a review to
know where you are coming from
and where you are going, because
if you don’t know where you are
coming from, you can’t know
where you are going, call that a
probe if you like, but we are not
going there to probe anybody in the
sense of witch-hunt.

Ajimobi. . . . may your days be long.

Amen