Oyo PDP in Disagreement With Patience Jonathan – See Why

Dame Patience Jonathan, may not be the most favourite person in the hearts of Oyo PDP members, for requesting that a former governor of the state, Rashidi Ladoja, who is not a member of the PDP, should be “accommodated” in the PDP.

This request was made during a meeting, attended by Adebayo Alao-Akala; the Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide; a former Senate Leader, Sen. Teslim Folarin, and Chief Yekini Adeojo and some other Oyo state PDP leaders at the Presidential Villa in Abuja nine days ago.
According to a source who spoke with Punch, those who attended the meeting were stunned when the President’s wife suggested that Ladoja should be supported to realise his ambition, but they did not only kick against her proposal , they also rejected her suggestion to share party offices in the state with Ladjola.

“The President’s wife asked that we should accommodate someone who is not a member of the party. How do we do this?
“She was tactically telling us to support his governorship ambition because she was saying she knew that Ladoja has the capacity to win election and defeat the All Progressives Congress in the state.
“But we disagreed and told her so. That was what happened, but she promised to convey another meeting soon where the issue would be further discussed.
“But I can tell you that we are not pleased with her activities in our party. We don’t understand where she derives the power to interfere in running of the PDP. In fact, most of us may not attend any other meeting summoned by her because she is not our leader.
She should keep off because if we field a wrong person, we may not defeat the APC in our state during the governorship election.”

But Alao-Akala in a phone interview with Punch said,

“Yes, it is true that the First Lady met us. But she didn’t ask me to step down. She said we should accommodate Ladoja in our party and we said it would be difficult to do so because he is not a member of the PDP. That was what happened.”

Hehehe!!! Dame Patience Jonathan, from whence did she get all this power she’s wielding???