A former governor of Oyo State, Rashidi Ladoja, has denied calling time on his political career.
Media reports had said the former federal legislator announced he was quitting politics.
However, Ladoja on Sunday told journalists at his Ibadan residence that he only decided not to contest any political seat again.
“Is it possible for someone to retire from politics? Are you not a politician? And so, what are they talking about? All I said was that I am not contesting again. Is that not retirement? That is retirement,” he said.
“I say I am not contesting again but I will always go for developmental politics. Whether I am in partisan or non-partisan politics, if there are any developmental politics, I will always go for it anywhere in Nigeria. So, it is not a question of ‘siddon-look’, I am not ‘siddoning look’.”
Ladoja knocked the government saying a sincere approach to ending insecurity in the country is not being followed.
“You know most of the time they talk about insecurity we don’t sit down to look at the root cause of the problem. If we try to look at the root cause of the problem, then we will know that all these insecurities have got a root. And if we are not careful, we will be complicating it.
“Look at the Shiites people that were said to have been banned. They are calling for another Jihad. You know people take their religion very seriously and they will not want their religion to be killed. And that is another problem in our hands,” he said.
