Gana, Agbaje, Ladoja hold 3-hour closed-door meeting in Ibadan

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CHAIRMAN of the 85-member Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee, Professor Jerry Gana, on Sunday, met with a former governor of Oyo State and national leader of Accord, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, behind closed doors for three hours.

Gana was in company with the Lagos State governorship candidate of the party in the 2015 elections, Mr Jimi Agbaje, at the Bodija residence of Ladoja.

With Ladoja to welcome the PDP team were Senator Femi Lanlehin; Chief Bayo Lawal; Professor Tunde Ayeleru; Honourable Fatai Adesina; Nureni Adisa; Alhaji Bashir Lawal and Dr Nureni Adeniran.

The visit came about two months after the governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, sent a delegation of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), led by Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu and a former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, to discuss third force arrangement with Ladoja in Ibadan.

Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune after the meeting, Professor Gana said his committee, having sat for close to two months, decided to implement one of the key recommendations which was to “touch base with prime movers and genuine democrats who were solidly part of the PDP.”

He noted that Ladoja and other democrats across party lines in the country needed to come together in the interest of sustainable democracy, peace, security and good governance in the country.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that one of the proposals put to Gana by Ladoja camp was the need to change the name of the party to attract “genuine democrats.”