APC chairman, Ex-reps speaker, 2 APC governors meet Ladoja in Ibadan

The Chairman of the APC National Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Mai Mala Buni and two governors; Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa and Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi, on Sunday held a closed-door meeting with former Governor Rashidi Ladoja of Oyo State in Ibadan.

Mr Buni, also a Yobe State governor led the two other governors to the residence of the former governor, located at Ondo Street in Ibadan, in the company of Dimeji Bankole, a former Speaker, House of Representatives.

Newsflash Nigeria understands that Mr Ladoja of Zenith Labour Party was the leader of the coalition which supported Governor Seyi Makinde in 2019 to win the election for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.

The coalition brought together the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Zenith Labour Party (ZLP); Social Democratic Party (SDP); faction of Action Democratic Party (ADP) and a faction of Alliance of Democracy (AD).

A source at the meeting, who pleaded not to be named, said the visitors arrived in Ibadan in Oyo State Government vehicles.

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This, it was gathered, fuelled the suspicions that the meeting might have caught the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led government in the state unawares.

Though details of the meeting were sketchy, the source said that the governors were in Mr Ladoja’s house to discuss issues of insecurity and the possibility of wooing him into the APC fold.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the visitors were received at Mr Ladoja’s residence by Abdulfatai Buhari (APC-Oyo North), Alhaji Sharafadeen Alli and Bimbo Adepoju.

However, all efforts made to get Mr Ladoja and the governors to speak on the outcomes of the meeting were futile as they declined comments.

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