Political parties have started re-grouping ahead of 2018 Osun State governorship election.
Chieftains of different political parties, including the Accord Party (AP), the Labour Party (LP), the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Action Alliance (AA), the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), the Mega’s Peoples Party (MPP), some groups within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA) yesterday gathered at the Oba Okunade Sijuwade Memorial Hall, in Ile-Ife to strategise.
Speaking at the event, the chairman of the occasion, Hon. Bello Sulaimon, from the Labour Party, said the formation of the group was to “rescue” people of the state from the “untoward hardships” that had befallen the state through Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s All Progressives Congress-led administration and to wrestle power from the party in 2018 elections.
Sulaimon, who insisted that the problem of poor economy must be combated headlong, charged people of the state to be united to vote “your oppressors out of power.”
Also, former aspirant to the state House of Assembly in Osun East on the platform of Accord Party, Segun Ayodele Fanibe, called for unity among members of the newly formed group.
According to him, with the power of unity, those who have battered and shattered the country’s economy would be chased out of power.
In his own remark, the former Public Relations Officer of the PDP in the South-West but now a chieftain of the Labour Party in the state, Engr. Yinka Adigun, said the new group would transform to a political party in May.