He was very welcoming and seemed eager to make media friends whom, I suspected, he felt he needed to bat off Rasheed Ladoja’s counter-offensive to his removal from office.
Alao-Akala was persuaded that Ladoja’s chances of reclaiming the governorship were nil despite being told that the process of his emergence was kooky. “Editor, whatever the outcome of his court case is, he will not return. That outcome will only be used by Law undergraduates in school. It will have no bearing on our politics here,” he said in Ogbomosho dialect.
He got the hint, a very bold one, that I was pissed and jokingly said there was nothing I could do about the man’s influence. “Editor, Baba should be a course of study in Political Science departments in our universities. I will lend you a copy if you promise to return it,” he said. Ladoja won. Alao-Akala returned to his rightful position as deputy governor. An attempt to interview him after that was unsuccessful because he thought it was inappropriate. I met with members of the entourage around him while he was governor and they told me that they and their principal were being treated by the Ladoja camp as though they had a communicable disease. Hardly surprising.
He was exuberant. Who wouldn’t be after becoming governor? He joked freely and said he harboured no bitterness against Ladoja despite what happened. He said he grew up in Ghana and had his first girlfriend, at the age of 19, in Ghana.
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