The candidate of the Labour Party, Comr. Issa Aremu has dropped from the Kwara state gubernatorial race to support the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq.
The LP governorship flag-bearer, Comrade Issa Aremu, who announced this at an event commemorating International Women’s Day in Ilorin yesterday, said his party resolved to back the APC candidate because of larger interest of the people.
Describing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led government in the state, he said, “We have the worst government under PDP in the last 16 years”.
He urged the voting populace in the state to cast their ballots for the APC and ensure that PDP doesn’t win any election in the Saturday’s polls.
Aremu said, “Today marked the liberation of Kwara State from the 16 years of bad governance of PDP, because the two progressive parties have come together to make sure that we support one candidate and his name is Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of APC.
“We have taken this decision looking at the bigger picture. We agreed that it is better that we win collectively than to lose separately, and we have done it before, during the presidential election. Through the joint effort of Labour Party and APC, we made sure that President Muhammadu Buhari won that election, which he did credibly.
“Our position today is to make sure that we rescue Kwara State from the dictatorship of one party for the past two decades. We are going to ensure we get our members in Labour Party to make sure that we vote for Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq for governorship.
“That doesn’t mean we are in APC. We retain our identity. We are doing this as partner. We have a written agreement, which is to back this up that this partnership is for a greater Kwara”.
Also speaking, the state APC governorship candidate who also attended the event, described his adoption as the funeral of the PDP government in the state.
He expressed confidence that the APC would secure victory with the array of endorsement of his candidature and defection into his party.
“It is exciting. It just means that it is the end of PDP government. It is a total funeral of the PDP government. It is a good day. On the eve of election, we are good to go.
“We feel great. We are confident. The important thing is that even the PDP have stopped campaigning. Not just adoption by parties, they have been decamping en mass. The numbers are going to be great. The only threat they have is to try and disrupt election because they can’t win and they can’t recover from the last election.
“It was 70 percent during the last election. With the other parties coming together and people decamping, we expect bigger number this time around”, Abdulrazaq said.