No author on the Bandaic languages ( Olson, Kenneth S. 1996 , Boyd, Raymond 1989 , Cloarec-Heiss, France 1998 if they even mention it) seems to have made an explicit comparison between Golo and the remaining Bandaic languages. Looking at the data my impression is that it diverges from all other Banda lects (which are similar among themselves). Although this could be due to rapid changes occurring in Golo (which was under heavy pressure from at least Ndogo) the natural interpretation is that it is coordinate with the rest of Banda. This seems to have been the impression of Tucker, Archibald N. and Bryan, Margaret A. 1956: 31-36 as well and not contradicted by e.g. Cloarec-Heiss, France 1986: 18-19
Field investigations up to approximately 1950 consistently report a language called Golo ( Marno, Ernst 1878 , Schweinfurth, G[eorg] 1873 , Cummins, S. L. 1904 , Tucker, Archibald N. 1940 , Tucker, Archibald N. 1931 , Santandrea, Stefano 1965 , Santandrea, Stefano 1957 ) west of Wau. The people are reported to be ethnographically closely allied to the Ndogo but the language is clearly Bandaic. Yet it differs from all other Bandaic languages more than they differ among each other and therefore represents a language of its own ( Tucker, Archibald N. and Bryan, Margaret A. 1956: 31-36 ). The language is conspicuously missing from more recent listings of Bandaic languages and languages of South Sudan, for no apparent reason. Although one may suspect the language is endangered --- with shift towards Ndogo --- Tucker, Archibald N. and Bryan, Margaret A. 1956: 36 give reasons for a more optimistic view.
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Glottolog
Golo at Grambank