Former Oyo State governor and Accord Party gubernatorial candidate in the last election, Senator Rasheed Ladoja, has said that Governor Abiola Ajimobi's boasting that the Court of Appeal can never nullify his elections, will come to naught as power is transient.
Speaking through the Director General of his campaign organization, Hon. Adeolu Adeleke, during a press conference in Ibadan, Ladoja said the dismissal of his petition by the Justice Muhammed Mayaki-led election petitions tribunal, did not come as a surprise, but rather a confirmation of the boasts by Ajimobi at different fora that he had already secured victory.
While stating that the judgment by the tribunal is a great burden and challenge to the judiciary, he maintained that the judgment is a travesty of justice, full of contradictions and legal somersault.
Ladoja who reiterated his commitment to the realisation and actualisation of what he termed mandate freely given to him by the people of the state, insisted that he and his party, will challenge the judgment of the tribunal at the Court of Appeal.
“In view of our belief in the judiciary and avalanche of evidence against the declaration of Senator Abiola Ajimobi as the duly elected governor in the April 11, 2015 governorship election in the state, Senator Rasheed Ladoja, the gubernatorial candidate of Accord after wide consultations, has resolved to appeal the judgment of Justice Muhammed Mayaki-led tribunal at the Court of Appeal.
“We wish to state unequivocally that no amount of attacks will stop Senator Rasheed Ladoja from retrieving his mandate through the instrumentality of law. More importantly, the denial of justice at the lower court cannot also make Senator Rasheed Ladoja to lose hope in the judiciary,” he stated.
He then berated Senator Ajimobi for his series of attacks on him because of his resort to challenge his victory, noting that with his position as a governor, he is expected to be a shining example, which he has turned out not to be.