Real Reason Ladoja Was Absent At Makinde's Inauguration

While many political bigwigs in Oyo State and across the South West, especially the PDP stalwarts, yesterday, were present at Obafemi Awolowo Stadium (formerly Liberty Stadium, venue of inauguration ceremony of Engr. Seyi Makinde as the executive governor of the state, one man who was conspicuously absent is the former Governor, Senator Rashidi Ladoja.

This development is rather shocking to many, as Ladoja was the head of coalition of others political parties (ZLP, ADC, ADP etc) that worked for Makinde's election victory.

All kinds of insinuations have since been flying around, some say the initial agreement of the coalition must have been broken.

A source however revealed to trendscopenewsblogspot that  Chief Ladoja's absent at the inauguration may not be unconnected with the sharing formula of his own side (ZLP) which is said to have been cut down to 5 percent instead of 15 as earlier agreed.

It was further gathered that the initial agreement between PDP caucus and coalition is 5 percent and that is was Engr. Seyi Makinde who jerked that of ZLP up to 15 percent. But according to what was revealed to this medium, the original plan had to be adopted when Ladoja's caucus started demanding for juicy position like that of SSG even with their 15 percent.

Whether all these instructions are right or wrong, however, the fact remains that all is not with within the coalition, and if the situation at hand is not well managed, it may generate into a bigger controversy.