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April 24, 2014

Ladoja vows not to return to PDP

Ladoja

Ladoja

BY OLA AJAYI

IBADAN–AS preparations for 2015 governorship elections hot up in Oyo State, a former governor of the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, yesterday said no amount of overtures would make him return to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Ladoja, who is now the leader of Accord Party, AP, and its possible governorship candidate, said his decision to remain in AP was no longer negotiable.
According to him, his decision to leave PDP five months to the 2011 general elections for Accord was based on sound political analysis and judgment without any regret whatsoever.

There had been intense pressure on him by notable chieftains of the PDP in the South West including the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo to have a rethink on his decision to dump the PDP.
Though, there was mutual agreement between Ladoja and the PDP initially, he later accused the party of insincerity.