Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi yesterday explained why he relocated from the Government House to his private residence in Ibadan, the state capital. As stated by him, he fled because his opponents directed evil traditional sacrifices (known as ebo in Yoruba) at him. At the eighth-day Fidau for the late Chief Imam of Ibadanland, Sheikh Baosari Haruna, Ajimobi said that ahead of the just-concluded elections, some desperate politicians did their best to send him out of the Government House through many devilish means. "They first came to you Alfas to give them prayers that will send me out of office, but my own Alfa's prayers superseded theirs. "Every morning, I go out for exercise. If you know the Government House very well, it has many interchanges, popularly called orita, I see all kinds of sacrifices (ebo) placed at these junctions.’" "Worried by these developments, some of you my Alfas here advised me to move out of the Government House to render their evil plots useless,’" he stated. This contradicts the tales by his opponents that he packed out of the Government House because he was afraid of defeat, the governor explained. The governor said he had to leave "to thwart the evil plots of these desperate politicians." Ajimobi asked the Islamic scholars to select 10 of them to accompany him to Saudi Arabia to perform the lesser Hajj ( Umrah) to thank Allah for His mercies on him and the state. The governor didn't forget the people of the state; he thanked them for re-electing him.
