OYO 2015: Akala dumps PDP for Labour Party Ex-Oyo State governor Adebayo Alao-Akala has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Labour Party, LP, to contest the state’s governorship election in 2015. Alao-Akala decided to leave the party after Teslim Folarin was declared as PDP governorship candidate at the party’s primary in Ibadan on Moday. The ex-governor, however, did not take part in the exercise as he was addressing his supporters in Ogbomoso while the primary took place, stating that his decision to move to LP was made based on the advice of his supporters. According to a media aide to the former governor, Abraham Ojo, his boss left the PDP because of the “insincerity and injustice in the party.” He said, “Thousands of supporters of the former governor stormed his Bodija residence in Ibadan 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 LP. “Everybody in the state is aware that Alao-Akala and his supporters are strong pillars that held the party and if a genuine delegate congress is conducted, he will always win. But since the national secretariat has given in to the manipulations of the minority in the party, we have no option than to quit,” he added.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:10:25 +0000
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