Alao-Akala: It’s difficult to be governor now

A former governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, has said with the economic meltdown, it is difficult to be a governor. Alao-Akala, who was defeated in 2011 by Senator Abiola Ajimobi, stated this at the national headquarters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) when he was asked to explain why he recently stated that he thanked God that he did not win the 2015 governorship election in the state.
He said: “I said that because I pity the governors because of what they are going through now. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep with these dwindling monthly allocations. That was the reason why I said that.
I don’t know how I would have coped. It doesn’t go beyond that.” The former governorship candidate of Labour Party in the last year’s election stated that he is now in APC. Fielding questions from journalists on his visit to APC national secretariat, he said: “I am at the national headquarters of my party, maybe, you don’t know that I am in the APC. This is just to tell you that I am a member of the APC.
So, I have come to the national headquarters of my party to have a tete-a-tete with my leaders and the national chairman of the party, including my leaders from the South-West in the party structures. That is what I have come here to do.”
The former governor also dismissed any governorship ambition for 2019. According to him, such things would be decided by God and not man. Asked if he was nursing ambition to become governor in 2019, he said: “When we get to the bridge, we shall cross it.
This is just 2016. Time will tell wherever anybody wants to go. Why do you try to ask God about 2019 now? Do you know whether you will sleep tomorrow and wake up tomorrow? Let’s leave 2019 to God.