By Our Reporter
2023 Accord Party governorship candidate in Oyo state, Chief Bayo Adelabu has notified his readiness to rejoin All Progressives Congress in Oyo state.
The former CBN deputy governor left APC last year June due to his intention to contest the 2023 governorship election on the platform of the Accord party after he lost the All Progressives Congress ticket to Senator Teslim Folarin
Adelabu in a letter addressed to Oyo state chairman of APC, Hon. Isaac Omodwu, the Accord party chieftain said he will be returning to the APC alongside top Accord party politicians and all his loyalists.
Adelabu, who contested and lost the 2019 governorship election to Governor Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party, explained that he left the APC in 2022 because of injustice, lies, conspiracy, and malice.
He implored all the State Executives with all Local Government Party Chairmen and Leaders of Oyo APC to be in attendance for the ceremony, which is scheduled to be held at the state party office, Oke, Ado, Ibadan, Oyo state.
Adebayo Adelabu’s letter, addressed to Oyo state APC state executives reads:
CEREMONY TO ANNOUNCE MY RETURN TO APC
I hereby write to notify the State Executives and leaders of All
Progressive Party Congress (APC), Oyo State, of my intention to officially
announce my return to our Great Party at a ceremony to be held at the
Party Office in Oke-Ado on 15th December 2023. I want this ceremony to
be anchored by the State Executives with all Local Government Party
Chairmen and Leaders in attendance.
2. You will recall that I left the party alongside my faithful and loyal
followers at the peak of the crisis rocking the party emanating from the
manner the state Congress and consequently the Primary Elections were
administered.
However, having consulted with our National Leaders and National Executives, I have decided to return to the Party. My first demonstration of this was a courtesy visit to the Party’s National Chairman where we agreed on the imperatives of my return to the party.
3. As a serving Minister of Power of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under President Tinubu led Administration, I look forward to a robust working relationship with the State Executive, Party Leaders, and entire party members towards achieving the renewed hope Agenda of Mr. President and the party at large, and in particular, in installing an APC-led Government at the State level in 2027 for an unprecedented development of Oyo State.