The Labour Party Chairman, Hon Sodiq Atayese has made a clarification on the news flying around that the gubernatorial candidate of the party, Taofeeq Akinwale had refused to jettison his ambition having been asked to step down during a stakeholders’ meeting of the party where Governor Seyi Makinde’s re-election bid was adopted.
Atayese made the clarification yesterday night while granting an interview to ODUDUWA NEWS.
The chairman maintained that Akinwale Taofiq still remains the candidate of the party if he desires to continue his ambition but the structure of the party has been pulled out from him and handed over to Engr. Seyi Makinde who is seeking to continue as the Governor of the State for second term.
He affirmed that the party never coerced its gubernatorial candidate to step down but what they did was to pull out the party structure from him and adopted another candidate who shares the same ideology with the party and has a brighter chance of winning an election.
The State Party chairman, Hon Sodiq Atayese further averred that the party arrived at the decision owing to the fact that the ideology of PDP led administration in the state resonates with that of Labour Party. Hence, the need to support his re-election ahead of Taofiq Akinwale who is the gubernatorial candidate of Labour Party.
