IBADAN—FORMER Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja has alleged that his successor, Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala has placed embargo on his political campaign on the State Broadcasting Corporation.

While condemning the act through the Director-General of Ladoja Campaign Organisation, Mr. Adeolu Adeleke, the ex-governor said it was a primitive act that the National Broadcasting Commission should discourage.

To this end, he said he would petition the broadcasting regulatory body to make a formal complaint against the alleged uncivilized attitude of the State Government.

Ladoja, who is contesting the governorship election with Akala on the platform of Accord Party lamented that in spite of the cheque attached to the advertisements on his governorship ambition, the management of the station whose hands were tied, returned it three times saying it could not air it.

He said, “It is too sad the way the State Government is running the BCOS. It belongs to the people of Oyo State, but, it seems it has been turned to a business outfit of Akala”.

He vowed that no amount of intimidation would make him chicken out as he was confident he would govern the state come May this year.

Ladoja asked Governor Alao-Akala to justify over N400 billion that the state had got since he assumed office.

Describing it as economically unwise for the state government, he stressed that the campaign organisation had to go to the station for more than three times trying to adjust the contents to suit the taste of the broadcast medium and at the end, the material was not used.

He said it was not wise for him to be using a medium that was not based in the state since the broadcast station was there for them to use.