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Four days before the governorship and House of Assembly Elections, the leadership and candidates of the Accord Party in Lagos State have declared support for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s re-election.

On Tuesday, the Lagos State chairman of the party, Dele Oladeji, said that Accord and its candidates decided to support Mr Sanwo-Olu and other APC candidates in Saturday’s elections in the state’s interest.

Mr Oladeji said the party would have supported Labour Party’s governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, but for alleged unsavoury statements of some state Labour Party (LP) members.

“We have made our choice to adopt a gubernatorial candidate – someone we believe, not by any sentiment or any other thing but from his precedence,” Mr Oladeji said at a meeting of executives and party members.

He said Mr Sanwo-Olu had shown responsiveness, sensitivity and immediate actions to duties.

“We have pledged in our letter that we are mobilising all our party members and executives across Lagos State, as well as the voting public to cast their votes for and re-elect Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for a second term,” Mr Oladeji said.

He said all the party’s structures and canvassers would work for the APC.

According to Mr Oladeji, the party in Lagos State supported the presidential candidate of LP, Peter Obi, in the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections.

He added that Accord was not supporting LP in the gubernatorial election because LP failed to respond to Accord’s overture.

In his remarks, Peter Obayuwana, a factional governorship candidate of Accord, said he was stepping down to work for Mr Sanwo-Olu in the interest of the party and Lagos State.

“We want this state to move forward. That is why we are stepping down our ambition,” Mr Obayuwana said.

Accord’s candidate for Lagos Central Senatorial District, Samuel Adigun, said: “We know what Sanwo-Olu has done in infrastructure development and youth empowerment.

“It is commonsensical to allow him to consolidate what he has done.”

https://gazettengr.com/nasty-comments-by-lp-members-made-us-adopt-sanwo-olu-accord-party/

This is a parody account though.

Thank you sir. We are.

raskymonojendor:
He got a reply in full measure

Warris dis. These people are truly animals.

Thank God for the Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani that brought these jungle people civilization, esle their woman and girls would have still be running around naked in their red mud region.

Another rubbish thread by IPOB.

Okay. Then upload the right one. Huma error.

Brendaniel:
You will soon be the chairman inside prison...meanwhile....

Nigerians chose President Peter Obi(GCFR)
and
Lagosians have chosen Governor Gbadebo Rhodes- Vivour(MON)

Dickhead.

We may be Obidient, but we won't vote for these inexperienced IPOB apologist.

Awon omo ogbon.

Congrats Bubu. Enjoy your retirement in a few weeks from now. It's now Tinubu's Era.

WHITELIGHTER:
Now it's evident, you're the one pushing the propaganda...but he's far better than the man you will ever be.
Btw, why didn't u post his posts on the support for Yoruba nation agitation?
Finished Man

What he said. This one would use Lagos IGR to fund IPOB.

WHITELIGHTER:
Smh. If not that you are lazy, you would done yourself some good by doing simple research on GRV not just to swallow the propaganda being pushed down your throat.
Finished Man

My research of him keeps taking me to his Biafra and IPOB posts.

Reinaldo:
MIT graduate is low budget? APC supporters truly don't know anything.

He is still a low budget Nnamdi Kanu..

It's obvious some posters on this thread are only supporting Chinedu (low budget nnamdi Kanu) because he is part ibo, pro Biafra and pro IPOB. Nothing more.

Some IT students in Lasu and Unilag have a better work resume than this Chinedu Lol.

2mch:
This one na good candidate sha

Funny I never heard of him before. I had to go and google him on twitter where he gave some sort of short speech.

Who did we offend in Nigeria, this are the type of guys that should be leading.

If MERIT was the only standard for choosing the next Governor of Lagos , Funsho Doherty would be top of mind . His resume is the best .
He has worked with the BEST ! pic.twitter.com/v8k33VNLC9

— The Nigerian Aristocrat (@NaijaAristocrat) March 7, 2023

Mynd44
Seun
Mukina
OAM4J

Please do the needful, this high quality candiate needs exposure.

This guy is a top candidate that should be going head to head with Gov Sanwo Olu of Lagos.

He has the experience and profile to match unlike that low budget Nnamdi Kanu (GRV).

This guy, your post dey always make sense and very balanced.

In Oyo State. Okay nah. Maybe they have an Amudo Odofin type of area in the State though.

Lol. Good for her.

menstrualpad:
Stop giving him popularity

Lol. Not when his colleagues have started killing his kinsmen in Enugu.

Resist the IPOBian that wants to use Lagos money to fund UGM/ESN/IPOB.

OP. How market.

raskymonojendor:
I will vote for Jandor not a PDP annex candidate. Although some Obidients disagree with you.

You are right. It's PDP annex.

Chinedu has turned to Gbadebo
Abiodun has turned to Islamiyat.

PDP dey disguise wants to come and loot Lagos money using the banner of Labour party.

Thank you President Xi.

Sonnobax15:

Junior brother's party endorsed elder brother's party . Las las these people eyes go soon clear about wetin God really save us from..

God really saved us

Labour Party = PDP annex.

Labour Party Governorship Candidate (Gbadebo RV) = PDP Lagos West senatoral candidate in 2019

Labour Party Deputy Governorship Candidate (Princess Oyefusi) = PDP Lagos East senatorial candidate in 2019.

A lawyer and human rights activist, Ayo Ademiluyi told SaharaReporters that he is the authentic winner of the party’s ticket won during the primary election that was held in the constituency on May 27, 2022.

The Labour Party’s National Stakeholders have been accused of auctioning and selling Eti-Osa Federal Constituency Ticket to the highest bidder, Mr Thaddeus Attah.

A lawyer and human rights activist, Ayo Ademiluyi told SaharaReporters that he is the authentic winner of the party’s ticket won during the primary election that was held in the constituency on May 27, 2022.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) earlier declared Mr Attah of the Labour Party as the Eti-Osa Federal Constituency seat winner in the House of Representatives. Prof Funmilayo Odukoya, who is the INEC Returning Officer, made the declaration last Monday.

Attah won with 24,075 votes, beating his counterparts, Mr Olubankole Wellington (Banky W) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who polled 18,666 votes, and Mr Babjide Obanikoro of the APC, who polled 16, 901 votes.

However, while speaking to SaharaReporters, Ayo Ademiluyi said, “I emerged as the bonafide candidate of the Labour Party through the primaries conducted on May 27, 2022, which is the period afforded under the Electoral Act, 2022.

“However, as soon as the National Convention of June 1st, 2023 came with the emergence of Peter Obi, a flood of new entrants entered the party.

“The Labour Party national leadership refused to forward my name as they wanted to sell the ticket to the highest bidder.

“The Labour Party national leadership refused to forward my name to INEC. But how it worked out was that they went ahead to organise a false "substitution" primary in which Attah, the false claimant to the mandate emerged.

“They forwarded his name to INEC but they refused to publish it.

“They now went ahead to Federal High Court, Abuja. They lost. They went ahead to the Court of Appeal, Abuja. The Court of Appeal gave them a favourable judgment.

“We were not aware. We were at the Federal High Court, asking for an order for INEC to publish our name. On the day of judgment before Justice Aneke, we met another set of elements to which Attah belonged. When we got wind of the Court of Appeal judgment, we appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court struck out our case.

“This is why INEC complied with the Court of Appeal judgment. However, some other guys in Attah's camp went to the Supreme Court again. They filed two appeals. They have now unwittingly given us the platform to raise our issues.?

“We will be filing what we lawyers call Cross-Appeal at the Supreme Court this week to ask the Supreme Court to order INEC to withdraw his Certificate of Return and hand it over to me,” he added.

Likewise, a group from the constituency, Eti-Osa People's Movement released a statement on Monday describing Ademiluyi as the authentic winner of the legislative election which was held in the constituency on Saturday.

The statement reads: “We, the Eti-Osa People's Movement heartily congratulate AYODELE ADEMILUYI, the Bonafide candidate of Labour Party on his victory as winner in Eti-Osa Federal Constituency seat in the House of Representatives.

“The Labour Party polled 24,075 to beat Olubankole Wellington (Banky W) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who had 18,666 votes, and Babajide Obanikoro of the APC, who had 16, 901 votes.

“Ayodele Ademiluyi, a leading #EndSARS activist, is the bonafide candidate that emerged from the 27th May, 2023 Primaries conducted by the Labour Party within the period prescribed by the Electoral Act, 2022.

“Ayodele Ademiluyi, a legal practitioner was a Co-Counsel to the #EndSARS Protesters during the Lagos State Panel of Inquiry into SARS-Related Abuses and the Investigation into the Lekki Massacre.

“During his campaign, he has promised to utilise his seat as Member of House of Representatives to reopen the struggle for justice for the victims of #LekkiMassacre.

“He has equally pledged to reopen the struggle for countless communities in Eti-Osa Federal Constituency which were dislodged by illegal demolitions.”

https://thenationonlineng.net/trouble-in-labour-party-over-eti-osa-rep-seat/

https://saharareporters.com/2023/02/28/how-labour-party-auctioned-eti-osa-federal-constituency-ticket-sold-it-highest-bidder

Moh247:
Most labour party candidates would get nullified

Even the Attah giu that won Eti Osa has an ongoing case in court. He hijacked the candidacy of the original Labour candidate (An EndSars lawyer called Ayo Ademiluyi). Na money e take bully the Ayo that originally won the primary.

https://saharareporters.com/2023/02/28/how-labour-party-auctioned-eti-osa-federal-constituency-ticket-sold-it-highest-bidder

darkknight2010:
Perhaps, you Niger Deltans have answers to the questions I have asked below. Your excitement and enthusiasm is indeed and in fact well understood.

That is who they want to vote for in Lagos. Someone with next to zero experience. A classic case of cutting the nose to spite the face. Lol

In other news, LP in Oyo collapse structure for Mankinde.
Labour = PDP annex.
GRV = PDP Lagos senatoral west candidate in 2019
Princess Oyefusi = PDP Lagos East senatorial candidate in 2019.

9jahotblog:
Lp have governorship candidate in oyo state now. I guess Lp in oyo have factions

Politics in Nigeria is mostly about interests. They don't really care about ideology. Especially that LP's candidates are mostly politicians that left PDP due to one reason or the other. Once Mankinde is in, decamping will follow.

The Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State on Sunday in Ibadan adopted Governor Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as its candidate for the March 11 governorship election.

LP chairman, Sadiq Atayese, told a news conference that the state's Working Committee of the party believed in the emergence of Makinde, a candidate with character, competence and capacity in the interest of the citizens.

He said, however, that the electorate should vote for LP candidates at the state assembly elections.

"Going by the results of the February 25 presidential election and political realities in our state, it is obvious that no individual party can win the coming gubernatorial election single-handedly.

"The main priority should be to ensure that citizens win through the election of a candidate that best serves their collective interests. "Against this backdrop, the right thing now is for parties and their candidates to form alliances with candidates of like ideology," he said.

LP has decided to use its structure throughout Oyos 33 LGAs to support Makinde.

According to Atayese, LP in Oyo State has decided to work with the candidate whose ideology tallies with its own in terms of security of lives and property, infrastructural development, food security, education and human capital development.

"It is of note that the present PDP administration under Governor Makinde has presented its scorecard from the health sector with the provisions of Primary Healthcare Centres in every ward to security and others.

"There is no doubt that his governance ideas in the establishment of Park Management System which other state now emulate has made him to be a leader with uncommon innovation.

"From our evaluation as a party, Makinde has done well and we know that continuous development of a state is a function of stability in governance," he said.

Atayese stressed that there had been meaningful development in Oyo State in the last four years; hence, it was only logical that the good work should continue.

"We have the responsibility to maintain the nobility of our heritage and we the citizens have to stand by it.

"We took a thorough assessment of the various governorship candidates for the March 11 election in terms of character, competence, capacity and compassion for the people.

"Gov. Makinde excelled over the others; therefore, LP in Oyo state has decided to use its structure throughout the 33 local government areas to support his re-election for another four years of giant development," Atayese stressed.

https://www.pulse.ng/news/politics/labour-party-adopts-pdps-makinde-as-oyo-governorship-candidate/3yb4njf

DeOTR:
Your ignorance is glaring all over the thread. I bet you don't know the location of Kwara state on the map, talk less of the road that leads there.
Alimi family controlling Kwara, yen yen yen.
Ask your brothers that live in Ilorin, Ilorin emirate ends at Sobi barracks in the North, Olunlade in the South, Oke Oyi in the East and Airport in the West.
Go to Baruten or Lafiagi or Patigi or Offa or Omu Aran and tell them they answer to Ilorin emirate and see if your head would still remain on your shoulders.