A pro democracy group under the aegies of leagues for Progressives for Good Governance in Oyo state called on the people of the state to support Oloye Bayo Adelabu Accord gubernatorial candidate in the forthcoming election in Oyo state.
They maintained that Bayo Adelabu is the best out of the three leading candidates that is contesting the governorship seat
Some members of the leagues who includes Alhaji Bello Labankadi, Chief Kunle Sanda, Hon Lekan Adeyemo, Chief Goke Oyetuji Alhaji Isiaka Alimi. Hon Kunle Jenrade, Alhaji Gani Alade and Mrs Mabel Williams and others.
Hon Lekan Adeyemo, who read the leagues statement at a press conference held at NUJ Press centre said a vote for Bayo Adelabu is a vote for peace, progress, economic transformation, infrastructural development and social emancipation.”
“We are convinced beyond reasonable doubt that he has what it takes to lead Oyo State as governor and we are using this opportunity to appeal to the good people of Oyo State to come out en masse on Saturday, March 18 to vote for Bayo Adelabu for a new Oyo State with life in abundance.”
To us,the standard bearer of the ACCORD party, Chief Bayo Adelabu, is a candidate to beat and he has the progressive ideology to make our state progressing accordingly. Indeed, it is only by electing Adelabu, a former Deputy Governor of Central Bank, with vast experience in corporate governance and development, that our dear state can be saved from imminent collapse.
“We must also state that the peace which has eluded the state will return if he is elected governor of Oyo State. Adelabu, no doubt, represents the true face of progressive and will provide a platform for the progressives who have been put in disarray by the likes of Teslim Folarin and Seyi
The leagues which insisted that Makinde has failed in virtually all the indices of development and should not be re-elected added that “It is unfortunate that such a character like Teslim Folarin with no known professional career other than politics could be thrown up to aspire to govern a state as politically sophisticated as Oyo State which was once governed by such intellectual giants as the late Chief Bola Ige and Dr. Omololu Olunloyo, a world-acclaimed mathematician and first-class brain”.
“Another sad development in our body polity today is the ongoing series of alignments, realignments and endorsement of Makinde and Folarin by some political parties and politicians, akin to the transfer season in the ever-exciting world of soccer.”
“These characters who are falling over one another to endorse and adopt these two candidates are not being motivated by the love of the state but by the pecuniary benefits, essentially financial, which they stand to gain through their macabre dance. If our dear state will witness growth and development as it did during the Ajimobi administration, the likes of Seyi Makinde and Teslim Folarin must be stopped, notwithstanding their desperation to mount the saddle from May 29, 2023. “
