LAGOS COUNCIL POLL | PDP Announces Alliance With Labour Party

The Moshood Salvador-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State has announced an alliance with the Labour Party for the July 22 council polls.

Salvador, who belongs to the Ahmed Makarfi faction of the PDP, made the announcement at a news conference in Lagos on Wednesday.

He said that the alliance was a temporary arrangement and that all PDP candidates for the polls would contest on the LP platform.

Salvador said that the decision was borne of out the inability of his faction and the Segun Adewale-led faction of the PDP to reach a consensus for the polls.

He said that the alliance became necessary as his faction, which he claimed represented over 90 percent of the PDP in the state, was denied participation in the polls, following the recognition of the Adewale-led faction by the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission.

Salvador said that the alliance did not mean that his faction had left the PDP. According to him, the arrangement would be temporary.

“What we are announcing today is an alliance with the Labour Party to enable our candidates to participate in the elections.

“Political alliance is an agreement for co-operation between political parties on common agenda, often for the purpose of contesting elections.

“This alliance does not mean we are leaving the party. We are PDP anytime.

“We only have a pre-election alliance. This is not the first time we are having such in the country’s political history,’’ he said.

Salvador appealed to PDP lovers and sympathisers in the state to vote for PDP-LP alliance through LP.

“Again, it is alliance. We have not defected to another party; we have not declared for another party and we have not dumped the PDP,” he said.

He said that the alliance had made the Labour Party platform to have 342 councillorship candidates and 52 chairmanship candidates for the polls.

Salvador directed all candidates under the arrangement to start pasting their posters and educate the electorate on the alliance and how they could vote.

He directed all the faction’s PDP executives in council areas to work closely with candidates of the LP for success at the polls.

The Appeal Court ruled that Sheriff is the PDP party’s National Chairman.

Markarfi’s appeal against the judgment is pending at the Supreme Court.

LASIEC has fixed July 22 for the council polls, and July 29 for the run-off.

The Winning team of Ejigbo Local council development area(Lcda)

Good morning to all my Leaders, Elders, Supporters, faithful party members, electorates and all the members of the Labour party campaign organization.

I want to use this opportunity to inform you that in order to succeed at the forth coming local government election in Ejigbo Lcda, we need to take some very important steps in ensuring we provide for you the best of the best candidates for councillorship and chairmanship candidates, who will bring the dividend of democracy to the constituents of Ejigbo Lcda.

As u all know success doesn't just come and find you, you have to go out and get it. This is the reason that the Elders of the party took their time to screened and scrutinized all the Labour Party aspirants and the best candidates emerged at d primaries that was conducted for the winning team

So I present to you the Labour Party candidates from the Chairmanship Candidate of Ejigbo Lcda to the Councillorship Candidates at the different wards;

CHAIRMANSHIP CANDIDATE: HON. ADEFENWA IBRAHIM OLAYINKA(A10)

VICE CHAIRPERSON: BARR. OKPALAKU IFEYINWA AGNES

COUNCILLORSHIP CANDIDATE OKE AFA WARD: HON. TAIWO ADEBIYI OGUNFOWORA

COUNCILLORSHIP CANDIDATE ILAMOSHE WARD: NWOZURU UCHECHUKWU MICHAEL

COUNCILLORSHIP CANDIDATE AILEGUN WARD: HON. (MRS) GRACE SOLOMON

COUNCILLORSHIP CANDIDATE AIGBAKA WARD: HON. MICHAEL ADEPEGBA

COUNCILLORSHIP CANDIDATE IFOSHI WARD: HON. GBENGA A. IDOGUN
        
COUNCILLORSHIP CANDIDATE FADU WARD: HON. OKWUDIBA UBABIGBO EKEBOSI

We need your support, campaign and your vote to be able to win this election in Ejigbo Lcda, kindly come out and cast your vote for us come July 22, 2017 and the victory will be for us all. Lets be ready for outstanding achievements in Ejigbo Lcda.
Hon. Adefenwa Ibrahim O. (A10)
Chairmanship candidate for Labour Party