On this day in 2006, governor Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja was impeached on allegation of corruption. His impeachment was later reversed by the courts.
There has been this serious impasse between governor Ladoja and his political godfather, Lamidi Adedibu since late 2005. All efforts to resolved the issue proved abortive, as both parties remained adamant and each claiming to be right.
Adedibu not wanting to be beaten to the game was hell-bent on removing the governor by any means necessary. He did not go the Anambra way (kidnapping and forcing the governor to re-sign) but chose to use the Oyo State House of Assembly. The required two-third of the house approved the impeachment of governor Ladoja after receiving a report of a committee they had setup to investigate the governor.
The official reason for the governor’s impeachment is that he had embezzled the sum of N2 million belong to the state.
Security forces immediately moved in to arrest Rashidi Ladoja as soon as his impeachment was completed and flown to Abuja for interrogation by the EFCC. The deputy governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala was then sworn in as Governor of Oyo State. After the swearing-in, the new governor immediately moved to Molete (a suburb of Ibadan, to pay homage to his political god-father, Chief Adedibu.
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