Oyo Governorship: Alao Akala Dumps PDP, Picks Labour Party Ticket

Despite being defeated at the Oyo State Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) primaries, former
governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, seem
determined to return to the Oyo Government
House as he has defected to the Labour Party
(LP) where he has reportedly been offered the
party’s governorship ticket.
Daily Independent reports that a leader of LP in
Oke-Ogun area of the state had told other
gubernatorial aspirants, including Sharafadeen Alli,
Nurudeen Akinyo, Kazeem Adedeji and Olu Abiala,
to allow Alao-Akala get the ticket because of his
war chest.

It was gathered that the leader simply told the
contestants that they could not muster the
financial resources to fight election battles, urging
them to give way to the former governor. This led
to the Islamic faithful among them immediately
jostling for the running-mate position.

It has been reported that some of the leaders of
the party who are sympathetic to Alao-Akala’s
course, at an enlarged meeting of stakeholders in
Ibadan, said the reason behind their call for him
to quit PDP is basically because of the insincerity
and injustice in the party.
Speaking on behalf of Akala in a press statement,
his media aide, Abraham Ojo, informed that: “
thousands of supporters of the former governor
today storm the Bodija residence to deliberate on
the way forward after the injustice meted to him
by the PDP.
“After series of meetings and discussion, they all
decided to leave the PDP and move to an
alternative party, which is Labour Party,” he
pointed out.

Party leaders at the meetings included Jacob
Adetoro, Adigun Irawo, Braimoh Yusuf, past
commissioners, local government chairmen,
among others. They held that, “there is no basis
for them to remain in PDP basically because the
party has refused to toe the line of truth;
everybody in the state knows that Alao-Akala and
his supporters are strong pillars that hold the
party and if a genuine delegate congress is
conducted, Akala will always win.”

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