FORMER
President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday, paid a visit to a former governor of
Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja.
Obasanjo, in what has been tagged a private visit, arrived at
Ladoja’s house on Ondo Road, old Bodija, Ibadan, in a black Land Cruiser Jeep
marked GGE 833 BT at about 6:10 p.m.
After exchange of pleasantries with his host and photographs
were taken, Obasanjo asked that he and Ladoja be allowed to meet privately,
saying “please, give us two minutes for a two-man talk or is that not how they
say it?
Emerging from the closed-door session after about an hour and
some minutes, the former president, when approached by reporters for briefing,
said, “it is a private visit and I don’t have anything to say about it.”
Pressed further to comment on national matters and the seeming
rapprochement between him and President Goodluck Jonathan, he said, “did they
tell you we are fighting? Look, Tetebuyan (parodying Tribune) I have told you I
am not talking.”
When he saw that the reporter would not allow him go without
talking, Obasanjo held the reporter by the hand and took him to his vehicle,
while giving one-word answers to most of the questions asked by the reporter.
On the special national convention on the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) and the truce he brokered between aggrieved PDP governors and
President Jonathan, he said “Am I the party chairman? Go and ask the chairman;
he will tell you.”
The host, in a terse comment on the visit, described it as part
of the ongoing national consultation with the former president as a central
figure.
Ladoja said part of their discussion was the meetings Obasanjo
held with President Jonathan and aggrieved PDP governors in Abuja last week.
He added that the issue of the welfare of Nigerians, whether
Nigerians were enjoying or not, also formed part of the discussion.
On whether the issues in the party had been resolved, Ladoja
said the leaders of the party were still working on how best to resolve the
crisis.
“You know Baba was in Abuja for three days and he met with some
governors. So, he came here as part of the ongoing consultation. We discussed
national matters and the issue of agriculture. Of course, you know both of us
are farmers.
Asked if his visitor revisited the issue of him (Ladoja)
returning to the PDP, Ladoja, who took a brief pause, said nothing of such was
discussed
Source: Tribune
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