LG Poll: PDP Aligns With LP In Lagos
Following the leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Ahmed Makarfi faction in Lagos State led by Hon. Moshood Salvador Wednesday formed alliance with Labour Party (LP) in the forthcoming Lagos Local Government polls.
Speaking to supporters in Surulere area of Lagos, the factional PDP Lagos State Chairman said smooth running of the party in Lagos has become impossible.
He said,” I refuse to be distracted. The Makarfi group of PDP under the leadership of Hon. Moshood Salvador has refused to allow their teeming members to be disenfranchised. If legal solution is being delayed, we have taken to political solution to form a political alliance.
“I am now appealing to all lovers and sympathizers of PDP in Lagos State to cast their vote for” Labour PDP Alliance” and vote Labour Party. It is an alliance. We never decamped to any Party. We never declared for another Party and we never dumped our dear PDP. We are the PDP strength in Lagos State. In this Pre-electoral alliance, we have 342 Councillorship candidates and 52 Chairmanship candidates.
“As from this very moment, I now declare that all our candidates must start pasting their posters, commence the house to house campaigns and educate electorates on the circumstance of our using Labour Party for this Council election only.”
Buttressing his decision, he said the first experience of pre-electoral alliance in Nigeria was in 1999 when the defunct All People Party [APP] and Alliance for Democracy [AD] formed an alliance to contest the Presidential election, with Chief Olu Falae of AD as Presidential candidate and Umaru Shinkafi of APP as the Vice Presidential candidate.
Meanwhile, the other factional chairman, Lagos Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Otunba Segun Adewale has condemned allegations of the move by Hon. Moshood Salvador directing aspirants to seek nomination from other political parties.
Adewale said the party has constituted a disciplinary committee to be chaired by Alhaji Wahab Owokoniran to investigate issues surrounding such behavior.
