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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