Governorship Polls: Four Political Parties Merge Against APC in Oyo

African Democratic Congress, Zenith Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party on Monday joined forces with the Peoples Democratic Party to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress in Oyo state gubernatorial election on Saturday.

The parties signed an agreement to adopt the governorship candidate of the PDP, Mr Seyi Makinde, as the consensus candidate for Saturday’s governorship election.

The agreement was jointly signed and made public by the Campaign directors of PDP, Mr Bayo Lawal; ADC, Alhaji Bashiru Lawal; ZLP, Mr Waheed Akanbi; and the head, SDP campaign committee, M. A. Oke.

However, the governorship candidate of the Alliance for Democracy, Oyedele Alao, says he is not a party to the agreement, describing it as an unholy alliance.

The governorship candidate who stated this in a statement issued on Monday, said he still remains the governorship candidate of his party.

He said, “Even when our erstwhile caretaker chairman and his co-political jobbers, out of greed and betrayal, were said to have entered into an unholy alliance with the gubernatorial candidate of another political party, we vehemently opposed and denounced it.

“For the avoidance of doubt, we want to restate it publicly that we are not political traders or political playboys, who came into politics either to swindle the people or just for our name to be mentioned. We came with a mission to rescue the people of our dear Oyo State from economic and political vipers and vultures, whose activities had held our people in social, economic and political bondage over the years.”