former Oyo State Governor, Rashidi Ladoja
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Congress of Nigeria, Oyo State chapter, has berated former governor of
the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, for instituting a libel case against
the African Newspapers of Nigeria Plc, Publishers of the Tribune titles.
The party maintained that it was an act
of political intolerance at its best and the Accord Party’s own way of
“spiking press freedom.”
The party said this in a statement on
Sunday by its Publicity Secretary, Dauda Kolawole, in reaction to a
libel case instituted by Ladoja against the newspaper over an
advertorial which gave details of the former governor’s alleged
confessional statement in an ongoing money laundering case instituted
against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The ACN noted that by suing the
newspaper house over what it said was an allegation authored by one of
his current aides and former Adviser to former Governor Adebayo
Alao-Akala, Ladoja was merely committing the “proverbial fatal mistake
that Yoruba often counsel against which is, seeking irrelevances in the
quest for the curative medicine for leprosy”.
ACN said, “It is political intolerance
at its best and Ladoja’s long-known disdain for the other person and the
media. That advertorial in question was first placed in the Tribune in
the build-up to the 2011 elections. It was sponsored by former governor
Alao-Akala and signed by one of his major aides.
“That time, it was not libelous to
Ladoja as he was then far-flung in his usual slumber, until a
God-knows-who caused the same advertorial to be re-run in the same
newspaper, only for Ladoja to wake up and begin to look for scapegoats
now.”
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