Date Published: 02/16/11

Evil plot against me will fail says Akala

Oyo State Governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala has reiterated his commitment to the development of Oyo State despite act of blackmail and victimisation from his political opponents in the state.

Alao-Akala while reacting to his re-instatement by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the lawful governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State in a telephone chat with THISDAY Wednesday said he has no ill-feelings against anybody despite all the evil machinations of his opponents who are doing everything to frustrate his bid to move the state to greater height.

A Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan had on Monday vacated a restriction order placed on INEC from accepting Alao-Akala’s name as the governorship candidate of the PDP in the state.

However, reacting to the development, the governor said his faith in God has been keeping him strong and was determined in his ambition to alleviate the suffering of the masses in the state.

He said he will continue to make peace overtures to those who did not wish him well as according to him, it is ungodly to pay evil with evil.

On the plan by some politicians from one section of the state to frustrate his second term ambition he said “ I have not done anything wrong; the only thing that they claim is wrong is the accident of my birth; where I come from or do not come from. “But these people refused to acknowledge that I have constructed and rehabilitated over a thousand kilometers of roads, built hospitals in each Local Government Area, built a world-class Teaching Hospital which has become a medical reference point, and rehabilitated major ones. Without prodding, World Bank, WHO, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), FAO, UBEC etc, all gave me awards for outstanding performance”