PDP invites Ladoja, Adedibu, Adeojo for talks, resolves Kwara crisis
From Alifa Daniel, Abuja
WORRIED by the unending battle for supremacy among the three political gladiators in Oyo State, the national headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has summoned Governor Rashidi Ladoja, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu and former gubernatorial aspirant, Alhaji Yekini Adeojo, to Abuja as part of efforts to resolve the political crisis rocking the state.
In a statement yesterday, the PDP warned the political combatants not to come to the party office with not more than three persons adding that anyone who came with more than three would be barred from the peace meeting next Tuesday.
The party advised that no thugs should be brought to the meeting or the vicinity of the National Secretariat of the PDP.
"Any group that flouts this directive will summarily be dismissed," the statement added.
The three groups were equally barred from making "further press statements which are capable of thwarting the peace process."
On the Kwara PDP crisis, the National Working Committee (NWC) which met last Wednesday, the statement said, resolved that "the purported exclusion of the Minister of State for Health, Princess Funke Adedoyin, and His Excellency, Alhaji Shaaba Lafiagi, as members of the Board of Trustees by the Kwara State chapter was illegal and unconstitutional."
The NWC reaffirmed that Princess Adedoyin and the former state governor remained bona-fide members of the PDP.
"The NWC also confirmed the composition of the state exco as earlier conveyed by the National Secretary to the State Chapter on January 14, 2002 and subsequently amended to include four members of the Saraki group," the statement added.
The PDP appealed to the state executive and all members of the Kwara PDP to embrace peace and accommodate all parties.