Opposition elements within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State have given President Goodluck Jonathan a condition for winning the state for him and the party in next year’s elections.
The opposition said the president should implement the Senator Ike Nwachukwu panel’s report and should not field Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala in the 2011 governorship poll.
The factional leaders, sources told Daily Sun at the weekend, gave the president the message at a meeting he convened last Thursday in Lagos to resolve the intractable intra-party feud that had pitched the governor against some founding fathers of the PDP in the state.
Daily Sun learnt that the president was compelled to call the meeting in view of the implication of going to the polls with a divided house and alarming reports of the widespread disenchantment of leaders of thought including influential monarchs with the incumbent PDP regime in the state. At the parley, held inside Dodan Barracks were 13 leaders of the anti-Akala coalition and 10 staunch supporters of the governor.
But the president had to settle to have separate audience with the two factions, asking the governor’s team to wait, so as to first listen to the other group, led by Senator Lekan Balogun to forestall building rancour.
In Balogun’s team were: former Governor Rashidi Ladoja, former deputy national chairman, Alhaji Yekini Adeojo, former minister for special duties, Elder Wole Oyelese, Senate Leader, Teslim Folarin, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Ademola Ayo Adeseun, factional Chairman of the party, Alhaji Yunus Akintunde and former Secretary to the State Government, Sharafadeen Abiodun Alli. Other notable PDP chieftains at the meeting which reportedly commenced at 10p.m. and lasted till around 2a.m. were Chief Elisha Olanrewaju, Alhaji Alli Oyedeji, Mr. Bayo Lawal, another House of Representatives member, Lanre Agoro and Ambassador Yomi Akintola, son of the late Premier of defunct Western Region, Chief Ladoke Akintola.
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