Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi
yesterday explained why he relocated from
the Government House to his private
residence in Ibadan, the state capital.
He said he fled because hi
s opponents
directed evil traditional sacrifices (known
as ebo in Yoruba) at him.
Ajimobi spoke in Ibadan at the eighth-day
Fidau for the late Chief Imam of
Ibadanland, Sheikh Baosari Haruna.
He said 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my own Alfa’s prayers superseded theirs.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 said.
The governor said his reason contradicts
the tales by his opponents that he packed
out of the Government House because he
was afraid of defeat.
The governor said he had to leave “to
thwart the evil plots of these desperate
politicians’’.
The elated governor 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.
He thanked the people for re-electing him.
