Ahead of April 11 governorship and House of Assembly elections, seven political parties in Kwara state have adopted Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as their candidate.
The parties, under the aegis of Congress of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP), based their decision on the need to be in the mainstream of the nation’s politics.
The parties involved are Action Alliance (AA), Progressive Peoples’ Alliance (PPA), United Progressives Party, Social Democratic Party (SDP), Citizen Popular Party (CPP), African Peoples’ Alliance (APA) and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).
Accordingly, the governorship candidates of the parties have stepped down for the APC governorship candidate.
The governorship candidates that stepped down for Ahmed are Felicia Oyewusi(AA), Tiamiyu Kamoru(PPA), Deaconess Comfort Kayode (UPP) and Lekan Alabi (SDP).
Others are Bayo David (UDP), Bamidele Omotosho(CPP) and Falilatu Bashiru, deputy governorship candidate of SDP.
Addressing reporters on Monday in Ilorin, the chairman of the CNPP in the state, Adebayo Lawal said their decision was borne out of genuine concern for the progress and development of the state.
”We in the CNPP of Kwara state identified the need to be in the mainstream of the nation’s politics by ensuring that our governor, AbdulFatah Ahmed also emerges on the platform of APC to enable us recoup all the losses we have sustained under the punitive policies of the administration of the outgoing President in the last two years.
“We are therefore unequivocal in our resolve to fully support the incumbent APG governor, AbdulFatah Ahmed on April11, 2015 and we call on all our teeming members and supporters in Kwara state to cast their votes for the party of the moment, the APC on that day.
“Furthermore, we are calling on all well- meaning people of Kwara state to also give their support to the candidate of APC in his well deserved second term in office as the executive governor of Kwara state and also to the various APC candidates for the state House of Assembly so that the dividends of democracy would continue to reach the people throughout the nooks and crannies of the state.
“The APC that presented the victorious presidential candidate in the March 28 elections, has thus emerged as the ruling party in Nigeria and also the party to beat in the final round of the 205 general elections in which governors and state Houses of Assembly legislators are expected to be elected.”
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