The Accord Party in Oyo State has announced its adoption of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adebayo Adelabu, as its candidate.
The party made this known on Friday in Ibadan, the announcement was made by the state Chairman, Chief Ogunsola Muda and National Secretary, Dr Ajaja Adebukola. They confirmed that the decision to adopt the APC governorship candidate was taken by the state executive and party chairmen in the 33 local government areas of the state.
The adoption was reported to be endorsed by the national headquarters of the party. The statement read thus, “as a result of realisation that Accord might not be able to achieve its quest to give Oyo State good governance. ”Hence the need to have a workable alliance with Adebayo Adelabu, the APC candidate in the Saturday election. ”The leadership of Accord after evaluating the two major contenders – Seyi Makinde (PDP) and Adebayo Adelabu (APC)–decided to pick APC candidate as the most intelligent and credible candidate capable of taking Oyo State to height of development in the next four years.”
Since the announcement was made it has been difficult to reach out to the governorship candidate of the Accord Party, Mr Saheed Ajayi as his phone lines have been dead.