In what looks like a confirmation of the bid by Rashidi Ladoja, former governor of Oyo State, to team up with the All Progressives Congress, AbdulFatai Buhari, visited him Saturday afternoon.
OYOINSIGHT.COM understands that Ladoja, whose supporters defected to the APC penultimate week, had announced his retirement from partisan politics.
Ladoja, this newspaper recalls, was instrumental to the coalition that birthed the incumbent administration of Seyi Makinde, governor of Oyo State but his Zenith Labour Party, ZLP and African Democratic Congress, ADC, had since pulled out of the coalition owing to non-fulfillment of agreement.
But Buhari, a former member of the House of Representatives who is representing Oyo North senatorial district for the second consecutive time, visited the Ibadan high chief inside his Yakooyo farms on the Ogbomoso-Igbeti road.
Ladoja and Buhari’s paths crossed in the build up to the 2003 elections when both contested and won as governor and reps member respectively.
Though details of Ladoja’s meeting with Buhari who was on his way to Saki were sketchy as at press time, a loyalist of the former governor who spoke on the condition of anonymity with OYOINSIGHT.COM said “It should not be taken as a political one. Sen. Buhari has always been part of the Ladoja family, though they have not been in the same party since 2007. He comes to Baba regularly.”
Meanwhile, OYOINSIGHT.COM has learnt that Makinde recently visited Ladoja at his Ondo street Bodija, Ibadan home.
Though the details of the meeting, which came few days after majority of Ladoja’s political supporters decided to team up with the APC, have yet to be made public, this newspaper learnt that the governor waited hours but was unable see the old man as he had already retired into his bedroom.
