During last week Saturday” Voices”, Popular Splash FM radio broadcaster Edmund Obilo, play thriller of his interview he had with member of House of representatives, Kamil Akinlabi, where Kamil, exposed how the Alaafin of Oyo, Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi, and the Oyo State Governor Senator Abiola Ajimobi, had allegedly been sharing the money belonging to the state, under the guise of fake contracts between each other.
The interview was to be aired 11:00 AM today June 9th, 2014, but through the power of the monarchy and the state governor, the management of Ibadan-based private radio station Splash FM has fired one of their best radio broadcasters Mr. Edmund Obilo, on the request of the state governor Abiola Ajimobi.
Edmund Obilo has noted for his activities of consistently exposing the corruption, and the failure of leadership to stop or investigate that corruption in Oyo State, under the present administration. This leads to the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi and his members to force the owner of the FM Station, Chief Adebayo Akande, to fire Him.
Mr. Obilo had anchored different programs, such as “VOICES,” “Bull’s Eye,” and “Economic Search Light.” These were noted platforms where activists and ordinary citizens are invited to express their views and opinions on national questions.
Recently, Mr, Obilo draw an ire of the governor after the interview that linked him and his wife to Mr. Mukaila aka Auxiliary, a notorious National Union Of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) thug who is currently standing trial for murder and gun-running.
In addition, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance recently claims the Oyo State government received the huge sum of 100 billion Naira in 2013 of which there is no project in Oyo State to justify the amount received.
Today, Oyo State is broke, to the extent that the government cannot afford to pay worker salaries on time. Mr. Ajimobi had been fingered in many shady deals, including a private refinery built-in Lebanon with stolen funds.