The All Progressives Congress (APC) Oyo State Chapter has withdrawn from participating in the local government election in 33 council areas in the state, attributing this to illegal self-serving planning and ill-conceived occurrences.
The APC in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, stated that the poll would worsen the political unpromising situation at the state’s grassroot level.
Sadare claimed the governor was attempting to impose loyalists who would remain politically aligned with him after leaving office, stressing that such plans would fail after the 2027 general elections.
“The party would not only boycott the polls but also work with other party stakeholders to make sure the event fails to hold in its December schedule,” Sadare said.
The party also accused Governor Seyi Makinde of trying to install his allies as council chairmen before the end of his administrative tenure, adding that the state’s leader cannot be trusted.
“The whole world knows that Governor Makinde does not believe in local government autonomy, and when it comes to democracy at the grassroots, he cannot be trusted for anything,” Sadare added.
He noted that the Tinubu administration’s recent push to enforce local government autonomy underscored the need for improved governance at the grassroots.
Sadare said poor management of council funds had left several rural communities worse off.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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