Ex-SSG emerges Osun LP gov candidate
A former Secretary to Osun
Government, Alhaji Fatai Akinbade, emerged the governorship candidate of
the Labour Party at the party’s congress in Osogbo on Friday.
The party’s National Vice Chairman, Mr Callistus Okafor, who conducted the primaries, said of the five aspirants that obtained forms for the primaries, only Akinbade returned his own.
Okafor called for affirmation of the lone candidate and the congress responded with a deafening voice vote.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that Akinbade, who was hitherto a chief of the Peoples Democratic Party, defected to the LP in efforts to realise his governorship ambition.
Akinbade urged other governorship candidates to avoid bitterness and use of uncouth language, as well as eschew violence in their campaigns.
He listed the party’s programmes to include mechanised agriculture, industrialisation, integrated rural development, improved infrastructure and restoration of the middle class.
Other programmes are human capital development, water supply and sanitation as well as building of egalitarian society through welfare programmes.
The occasion, which was attended by representatives of the Independent National Electoral Commission, was hitch-free.
Scores of party members and supporters from the state’s 30 local government areas attended the event
The party’s National Vice Chairman, Mr Callistus Okafor, who conducted the primaries, said of the five aspirants that obtained forms for the primaries, only Akinbade returned his own.
Okafor called for affirmation of the lone candidate and the congress responded with a deafening voice vote.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that Akinbade, who was hitherto a chief of the Peoples Democratic Party, defected to the LP in efforts to realise his governorship ambition.
Akinbade urged other governorship candidates to avoid bitterness and use of uncouth language, as well as eschew violence in their campaigns.
He listed the party’s programmes to include mechanised agriculture, industrialisation, integrated rural development, improved infrastructure and restoration of the middle class.
Other programmes are human capital development, water supply and sanitation as well as building of egalitarian society through welfare programmes.
The occasion, which was attended by representatives of the Independent National Electoral Commission, was hitch-free.
Scores of party members and supporters from the state’s 30 local government areas attended the event
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