Oyo
State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi has sued a national newspaper and an aide to
former governor Rashidi Ladoja, one Lanre Ogundipe, to court, demanding N1
billion damages over a publication on the newly-commissioned flyover at the
Mokola area of Ibadan, the state capital.
The
two other persons sued by the governor for the publication were Alhaji Lukman
Akinpelu and A. O. Adepoju.
Senator
Ladoja, who contested the 2011 governorship election with Governor Ajimobi and
lost, and who is warming up for another gubernatorial contest in 2015, had of
recent been having a running battle with the governor over the construction of
the flyover.
The
former governor had launched attacks on the Ajimobi administration, on the
flyover, which is the flagship project of the governor and the first to be
constructed by any civilian administration in the last 35 years in the state.
But
the newspaper had in its Wednesday edition, published a letter entitled:
‘Mismanagement of the scarce financial resources of Oyo State: Scandalous
contract sum’, and written by an Oyo anti-corruption group signed by aides to
Governor Ladoja, Lanre Ogundipe, among others.
However,
Governor Ajimobi, in a statement issued in Ibadan yesterday viewed the
publication as libellous, and hinted that he had instructed his lawyers to
demand N1 billion as damages.
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