The Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, who can also be the Chairman, Nationwide Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress, on Sunday led two different governors elected on the platform of the ruling social gathering for a gathering with a former Oyo State Governor, Rashidi Ladoja, in his residence in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu; and his Jigawa State counterpart, Abubakar Badaru; Senator Fatai Buhari representing Oyo North Senatorial District, and a former Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, had been additionally a part of the go to to Ladoja.
The APC chieftains had been stated to have held a gathering with Ladoja behind the closed-door which lasted for one hour.
The spokesman for the previous governor, Alhaji Lanre Latinwo, advised our correspondent that the politicians didn’t disclose what was mentioned.
He stated, “They held a gathering for about one hour however it was a closed-door assembly and so they didn’t inform any of us what they mentioned. However Baba (Ladoja) is above defection. He has stated that.”
Nevertheless, it was believed that the assembly was not unconnected to the dedication of the APC to win again Oyo State from the Peoples Democratic Occasion in 2023.
The spokesman for the APC within the state, Olawale Shadare, stated the state chapter of the social gathering couldn’t touch upon the go to.
He stated, “Till we’re correctly briefed, we won’t touch upon the go to. I don’t know whether or not it was for governance or politics.”
Ladoja, who dominated the state on the platform of the PDP in 2003, is taken into account to be a really sturdy politician within the state.
He was stated to have masterminded the assembly the place governorship candidates of different political events, together with his personal social gathering, the Zenith Labour Occasion, supported Seyi Makinde of the PDP who finally received the ballot in 2019.
Ladoja’s social gathering, ZLP had in February stated it was discussing with the APC for attainable collaboration. The social gathering was additionally stated to have held talks with the PDP.
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