By Ola Ajayi
Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State yesterday dared his predecessor, Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja to go ahead with the threat to publish details of the revenue received by the state government over the last three and a half years.

Alhaji Ladoja had, at the flag-off of the South-West campaign of the Accord Party yesterday accused Governor Ala-Akala of destroying the legacy he left behind in 2007.

He vowed to repair the damage done to the state by the Alao-Akala administration.

But the Special Adviser to Governor on Public Communications, Prince Dotun Oyelede said the threat by Alhaji Ladoja to publish the revenue details was welcomed moreso, when “its fiscal statistics is already in public domain.”

Besides, he said the publication of the revenue details “will enhance healthy debate and allow people to compare Ladoja’s achievement with those of Akala administration.”

He also challenged Alhaji Ladoja to “explain in the publication details of why, during his tenure, N4.3 billion was paid to government coffers instead of N6.2 billion from proceeds of share sales.”

The civil service, according to him, has however had ti so good and the delay in payment of salaries during his tenure has been corrected.

Prince Dotun Oyelade said government has “husbanded its resources so well that all promises made to the people have been fulfilled, three months to the next election.”

Meanwhile, Alhaji  Ladoja said the incumbent governor degraded graduates in the state by turning them drivers with his loand policy.

The ex_governor said, “all the works we did in 2007 have been destroyed. There were seats for the students to sit on in 2007, but now, there are no seats. The students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology were paying N16,000 but now they pay N120.000.

He disabused the minds of eligible voters in the state that the April election is not a battle between Ogbomoso and Ibadan people.

But, Governor Akala replied through his Special Adviser on Public Communication, Prince Dotun Oyelade saying it was hogwash for his former boss to claim destruction of his legacy.

Ladoja explained that both Ogbomoso and Ibadan people were the same and that there were so many legitimate indigenes of the city.