The former governor of Oyo State Adebayo Alao-Akala has
reportedly rejoined the All Progressive Congress (APC) after meeting with the
national leader of the All Progressives Congress Bola Tinubu.
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| Adebayo Alao-Akala |
The former governor left All Progressives Congress (APC) in
October 2018, after the governorship primaries that didn’t go his way. Newsmen
had reported that Alao-Akala visited the national leader of the APC, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, in the company of his wife, Oluwakemi Alao-Akala; his son, Olamiju
and the Director General of his campaign, Wale Ohu, at Bourdillon on Thursday.
The former governor had asked to be given time to make a
formal statement on the meeting with the APC national leader. “It is true. Both
of us have been meeting and we will continue to meet. I will call you in 24
hours to let you know the state of things,” he said.
Newsmen reported that top sources close to the two
politicians had revealed that it was the motive of the former Lagos state
governor, Tinubu, the meeting was initiated after the Peoples Democratic Party
Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, won the presidential election in the
state.
A source close to Tinubu, who does not want his name in
print, said Ajimobi’s defeat showed that the people of Oyo State could vote
against the APC candidate, Adebayo Adelabu. The source said, “Tinubu and
Alao-Akala met on Tuesday. Tinubu asked Alao-Akala, who has many supporters in
Ogbomoso, to collapse his structure into that of Adelabu. We know that if
Alao-Akala was in our camp, there was no way Atiku would have had such a good
outing in Oyo State, especially Ogbomoso.
“The PDP governorship candidate, Seyi Makinde, is popular
and he is also an Ibadan guy like Adelabu, which means that they will both
split the votes in Ibadan. The APC will need to forge an alliance with elements
in Ogbomoso to get an advantage.” When asked why the APC did not forge an
alliance with Alao-Akala before now, the source said they would have done so
but Governor Ajimobi told them that there was no need to worry.
He added, “We knew that the people were not too happy with
the governor as far back as June 2018 when the PDP candidate, Adebo Ogundoyin,
won Ibarapa-East Constituency by-election which was held to fill the vacant
position created by the death of former speaker of the House of Assembly,
Michael Adeyemo. Alao-Akala had made some demands but Ajimobi did not play the
politics right. Also, Ajimobi’s decision to convert some chiefs to full
monarchs was unpopular among many people.”
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