By Bukola Olasanmi
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State to told the sitting governor Seyi Makinde to prepare his hand over notes and the party is determined to defeat him at the 2023 polls.
At a rally on Wednesday in Ogbomoso, the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Senator Teslim Folarin made this assertion.
The party’s Senatorial candidate for Oyo North, Senator Fatai Buhari, urgent the constituents to vote en masse for the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu and other candidates of the party in the state.
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Folarin said that Ogbomoso was a save zone for APC, being the zone of a former Governor, late Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala and also, a stronghold of the party.
The candidate said he was optimistic that all the party’s candidates would win in Ogbomoso and the state during the 2023 general elections.
Folarin said even though the zone is a stronghold of APC, “we will not take any part of the state for granted and would continue to canvass for their votes.”
Folarin said that PDP, as the ruling party in the state, has no experience in piloting the affairs of the state.
According to him, it has provided no meaningful development in the last three and half years of the administration in the state.
He said that all the APC candidates in the state were experienced and have what it take to pilot the affairs of the state to prosperity, if voted into power
“APC is now more united and all the aggrieved leaders, including the former Deputy Governor, Moses Adeyemi, are at this rally, this is to show that the party is united and doing fantastically well to win the 2023 elections,” he said.
In his remarks, Buhari, who is contesting for Oyo North Senatorial District for the third time, said that the focus of all APC candidates was to develop and bring prosperity to the state and Nigeria in general.
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He said that his senatorial district being an agricultural area, if well annexed, could feed not only the state, but the entire country.
Buhari said that he was supporting Tinubu, not based on ethnic or religion, but because of his competent capacity and character to deliver, which all APC candidates in the state also possessed.
He, therefore, called on the electorate to shine their eyes and vote for APC, which has competent and pedigree candidates that could deliver dividends of democracy to the masses.
In her remarks, Olawumi Oladeji, the APC candidate for Ogbomoso North for the state House of Assembly, called on the electorate to give her more opportunity to fight for the course of women and humanity in general.
Oladeji, who is running for the position for the third time, said it has not been easy being the only female in the state Assembly.