By OLA AJAYI

IBADAN – FORMER governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, may have reconsidered his decision to return to the Peoples’ Democratic Party,PDP, as he said, yesterday, that he was not in a hurry to leave his  Accord Party.

His return to the party may not materialise unless the party is restructured to make the welfare of Nigerians one of its cardinal programmes.
Though, he had support for the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria in the state when its candidate, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, won the 2011 gubernatorial  election, he stated that he was not ready to join the party.

Ladoja said this at  the commissioning of the Lagelu/Akinyele Constituency Office which was donated by a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Kayode Busari.

Former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and other chieftains of the party in the South-West had made many overtures to the ex-governor to return to the party that he left shortly before the 2011 governorship election. He has, however, not given them any clear signal that he would rejoin the party.

Ladoja said he was satisfied with the four federal lawmakers elected on the platform of Accord Party, noting that “they are distinguishing themselves above other political office holders.”

At the event where  Busari distributed poverty alleviation materials worth millions of naira to the people of the constituency and gave soft loans to widows and the aged, the former governor hinted how ACN tried to woo him.
Ladoja said he told them that he would not join the party.

In his welcome address, the facilitator of the poverty alleviation programme, also distributed fifty grinding machines, 300 bags of fertilizer, and 150 GSM tools.