By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The Oyo State gubernatorial candidate of the Alliance for Democracy, (AD) in the 2019 election, Engineer Oyedele Hakeem Alao has dumped the party for the All Progressive Congress (APC).
According to a statement from his campaign office in Ibadan, Engineer Oyedele joined APC on Thursday, 16th December, 2021 after wider consultation with his teaming supporters and foremost political stakeholders in Oyo State.
Addressing APC members in Iroko, Ward 12 of Akinyele Local Government of Oyo State, the former AD governorship candidate said his joining APC was an homecoming, having being a progressive since he joined politics in 1998.
Engineer Alao while speaking with journalists at the Akinyele local government Secretariat in Moniya, lauded the APC executives for the befitting reception accorded him promising to be a pillar upon which the party could rest on.
“Like I said in Iroko, the APC is not a new terrain as I have always been a progressive since 1998 that I joined politics in Lagos. My coming home into the APC is to return to the mainfold and centerpiece of progressive politics. I assured you all of my cooperation and support at all time”, he said.
Engineer Alao added, ” today’s meeting is just to formally register and pick my registration slip. I have already met some leaders of the party in this Local Government and the state before coming here to register and the consultation will continue”.
” A date for my official welcome rally will be communicated to you and the general public in due course. I have also notified all my supporters and former AD members in Akinyele Local Government and across Oyo State to join APC before the welcome rally in March, 2022”
Engineer Alao, while at the APC’s Akinyele Local Government Secretariat in Moniya formally register and picked his registration slip and as well met all the Local Government Executives and Ward Chairmen of the party in Akinyele Local Government.
