Jump Out of Sinking Ship, Oyo APC Tells Opposition Supporters - Tribune

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has advised followers of the governorship candidates of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Accord Party and the Labour Party (LP), Senator Teslim Folarin, Senator Rashidi Ladoja and Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala respectively, to jump out of what it called their sinking ship, ahead the April 11 governorship election.

The party, in a statement issued in Ibadan, on Monday, by its state director of publicity and strategy, Olawale Sadare, said the dismal outing of the PDP, Accord Party and LP candidates had clearly shown them as paperweight politicians.

APC thanked the people of Oyo State for keeping faith with the party, as demonstrated by its overwhelming victory during last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections.

The party also counselled the gubernatorial candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Mr Seyi Makinde, to join the winning team, in order not to mortgage his political future.

It said further that the voting pattern of the last elections had clearly shown their belief and support for the APC-led administration of Governor Abiola Ajimobi, as well as their political sophistication.

“Besides, the outcome of the elections has shown that the people of the state will never again fall for the bait of propaganda, deceit, falsehood, character assassination and reactionary politics for which the leading opposition parties’ candidates are known.

“Now that the people of Oyo State have, again, shown their preference for the APC, we strongly advise the followers of Folarin, Ladoja and Alao-Akala to review their stance and jump out of the turbulent ship, in order not to sink with them.

“We equally want to counsel the standard-bearer of the SDP in the April 11 governorship election, Makinde, to reflect on his political future, which we strongly believe will better be enhanced if he teams up with the APC now, along with his followers,” the party said.

APC said the showing of Alao-Akala-led LP in some parts of Ogbomoso out of the five zones of the state was a further attestation to the party’s position that the ex-governor was only a local champion that lacked general appeal in the political matrix of the state.

“With the outcome of the election, Ladoja and his Accord Party should, by now, resign to fate that the people of Oyo State have finally rejected them.

“This informs our advice to the innocent followers who, all along, had been deceived into believing that he was a force to be reckoned with,” the party added.