AKALA DECAMPS TO LABOUR PARTY

FORMER governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, has formerly declared for Labour Party (LP).

The former governor, who dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alongside thousands of his supporters on Monday evening, at his Bodija residence, said the decision was made based on the demand by his teeming supporters to quit PDP.
At an enlarged meeting of stakeholders in Ibadan, some of the leaders of the party, who are sympathetic to his course, said the reason behind the call to quit PDP was basically because of insincerity and injustice.
Mr Abraham Ojo, his media aide, in a press statement on behalf of Alao-Akala, said “thousands of supporters of the former governor stormed the Bodija residence to delibrate on the way forward, after the injustice meted to him by the PDP.
“After series of meetings and discussions, they all decided to dump the PDP and move to an alternative party, which is Labour Party.”
Among the party leaders at the meetings were chief Jacob Adetoro, Chief Adigun Irawo, General Yusuf Braimoh, past commissioners, local government chairmen, among others.
They argued that there was no basis for them to remain in PDP, because the party had 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, Alao-Akala will always win, but since the national secretariat has given in to the manipulations of the minotity in the party, we have no option but to quit,” they said.
While debunking insinuations that they participated in PDP primaries, Ojo said Alao-Akala had made his intention to quit the party known since Sunday, after meeting with his teeming supporters in Ogbomoso and later today (Monday) in Ibadan, even before the process started.
“It is laughable and ridiculous to say Alao-Akala scored two votes in the primaries he did not even particiapte in. He is a political giant who has been a bride to all political parties in the state since the PDP travails started,” he said.