Former Oyo governor, Chief Rashidi Ladoja, and the candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) in the last governorship election in the state, Sharafadeen Alli, have dismissed speculations in the state that they would be moving into the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement issued on Sunday, Alli said, “That Senator Ladoja and I, are leaving ZLP for APC was concocted to distort facts and heat up the polity.”
He said they had never contemplated dumping the ZLP but were working hard to promote the party in the state.
“Following some statements going viral on social media, that plans have been concluded that we are moving to the APC, I want to state categorically that it is not true.
“We have never contemplated dumping our party, ZLP for any party. Our leader, Senator Ladoja and (I) are dissociating ourselves from the said story.
“I want to state that the rumour was concocted by the people who believed we have to either move to where they belong or where they want us to belong.
“The general public and our teeming supporters should ignore the rumour and focus on the future of our great and forward-looking party.”
Rumours has ensued in some quarters that the two prominent leaders who helped Governor Seyi Makinde win the last election on the platform of the PDP, wanted to leave the ZLP for the APC.
Chief Ladoja rallied Mr Alli of ZLP and Olufemi Lanlehin of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to step down for Mr Makinde so as to present a common front against the APC’s Adebayo Adelabu.
