No Leadership Contest Within Oyo PDP, Ladoja Is In Charge – Makinde

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By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Oyo State, Engineer Seyi Makinde has declared that “there is no leadership contest within” the party in the state.

Engineer Makinde who made this known in a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen in Ibadan said  High Chief Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja remains the PDP leader in Oyo State.

According to the PDP governorship aspirant, the present internal crisis rocking the party in Oyo state will “be amicably resolved soonest”. adding, ” there is no leadership contest within our party. We have a common leader in High Chief Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja and it is our collective prayers that God will use him to pilot us to the Promised Land.”

” For the avoidance of doubt and before mischief makers continue to gloat in the little skirmish within our political family, ( and this will be amicably resolved soonest) let me reiterate for the umpteenth time that Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja, former Governor of Oyo State and the Osi Olubadan of Ibadan land is not only my Leader but the Leader of our party, the PDP in Oyo state” he said

Engineer Makinde added ” I will be a fool to contest the leadership of the party with someone of  Senator Ladoja’s calibre when I do not even belong to the third string in the pecking order of our great party.”

The PDP governorship aspirant maintained that “generally speaking there are two types of leaders. A leader thrust upon his people by circumstance and a leader who has paid his dues and has earned universal respect for his conduct and antecedent” saying,
“Senator Rashidi Ladoja belongs to the latter and this is as well-documented as my genuine reverence for him.”

Engineer Makinde stressed in the statement that ‘this reiteration is incumbent in the light of the convenient heresy being peddled by those who wish our party to repeat the same horror mistake that was made in 2015 that gave birth to a second round of anguish for our people in the hands of the current administration in the state.”

He emphasized that there are
reasons for him “to believe that Senator Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja is in the forefront of the rebirth and resurgence of the PDP that upholds the tenet of justice and fairness because of his realisation that you cannot clap with one hand and that our victory depends on oneness.

Stressing that ” God forbids that we allow the mistake of 2015 to repeat itself as the people’s Chief Tormentor is waiting in the wings with glee to install his cohort to continue his famed misrule” adding that “the  current situation within the PDP is a clarion call for us to urgently and dispassionately decide whether we want to contest the 2019 election for its sake or we want to win the election to liberate our people from a paradoxical democratic captivity.”

“I do not blame those who ask me in bewilderment what the hell I am doing in politics especially after my experience in 2015. But I am not a quitter; I am a marathon runner from the hills of Oluyole and I was also a beneficiary of the Free Education introduced by Uncle Bola Ige while I was a student at Bishop Phillips Academy in Ibadan and the policy worked seamlessly and produced millions of us.”

Engineer Makinde said “looking back and seeing how governance has been turned on its head into rocket science particularly in the past seven years or so, I shudder to think of how many Seyi Makindes have been buried through straight-forward corporate lies, deceit, arrogance and frustrating misplaced priorities.” adding, “I bet with my life that many of those young men and women I pass by on the streets daily are far more intelligent and smarter than I can ever be and were poised for a successful future until bad leaders came to town.This must and can change and I mean change in genuine sense, not a vote catching cruel gambit.”

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