Gov. Ajimobi to visit Mecca with 10 Islamic scholars for reelection thanksgiving

April 17, 2015



Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi is still in an exultant mood after his victory last week in the governorship election where he triumphed in a formidable field that featured his two immediate predecessors. At some point last year, some pundits were predicting a loss for the governor. But he somehow managed to pull it off, defeating Rashidi Ladoja, Adebayo Alao-Akala, and Teslim Folarin of Accord, LP and PDP respectively.

At the eight-day Fidau for the late chief Imam of Ibadanland, Sheikh Baosari Haruna, the governor asked the Islamic scholars present 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 following his reelection.

Ajimobi also spoke about how in the buildup to the election, he had to relocate from the Government House to his private residence in Ibadan, the state capital. Some of his opponents claimed that he moved because he knew he was going to lose. Gov. Ajimobi however disclosed that he fled because his opponents directed evil traditional sacrifices – ebo – at him.

“hey first came to you Alfas to give them prayers that will send me out of office, but my own Alfa’s prayers superseded theirs.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.