The Deputy Governorship Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ogun State Chapter at the 2023 general election, Hon Adekunle Akinlade has declared that Ladi Adebutu would have turned a misfit if elected Governor of the state.
It was gathered that, Akinlade who was the running mate of Adebutu made the declaration in a statement explaining that from his interaction with him he (Akinlade) later discovered that he lacks character and honor.
The former member of the House of Representatives said he met Adebutu personally in early June 2022 through a trusted friend and brother, adding that during their discussion, he offered him to join him on his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket for the 2023 gubernatorial race.
We further reports that Akinlade said unfortunately, Adebutu’s actions and deeds betrayed his purported intention to inspire leadership, stressing that his temperament, lack of regard for varying opinions, brashness and uncultured manner makes it impossible to have any reasonable conversation with him after relating with him for about 21 months (June 2022 to February 2024),
‘I can say with certainty that he does not have the mental capacity or acumen to lead a group of children, talk less of a State like Ogun.
Frankly speaking, it is unfair to him that although those around him know that he is mentally incapable, they still urge him on for their selfish ends’, he added.
‘I am not a neurologist, nor behavioral expert, but having been close to him for almost two years and experienced firsthand, his unprovoked angry outbursts, hostility, sudden mood swings, social withdrawal, self-pity, attention seeking, lying without compulsion and his arrogant sense of entitlement. I concluded that he must be suffering from chronic low self-esteem’, Akinlade emphasised.
“In fact, Ladi is a 2-year-old child in a 62 year-old man’s body. I guess this explains why he acts on impulse like a child without caring about the consequences of his actions. In his delusion of self-grandeur, he lies effortlessly, sheds tears at will and induces self-pity.
“Come to think of it, why does his almost 90-year-old father still give him weekly feeding allowance? At first, I thought that it was the old man’s way of expressing his affection, but as I observed them closely, it became clear that even the old man knows that his 62-year old man- child lacks the capacity and ability to manage a monthly or annual handout,” he alleged.
Akinlade told newsmen that Adebutu announced his intention to re-contest for governorship come 2027 the same day Supreme Court quashed his case against Abiodun.