By Ola Ajayi
AS the governorship election in Oyo State draws near, more opposition has risen against Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala who is seeking a return ticket to the Agodi Government House.

One of the anti-Akala chieftains of the PDP in the state, Senator Lekan Balogun has said serious mobilization against the second term bid of Governor Akala had begun and that within the next few days to the election, all the necessary consultations would be made to actualize their goal.

Already, he has advised the entire political opposition in the state to team up and vote Governor Alao-Akala out of the Government House.

He said, “the political and economic retardation we have witnessed in Oyo State in the last four years or so has made it obligatory on the part of the entire political opposition in the state regardless of party affiliation to subsume its individual self interest to the larger public interest”.

To him, all the opposition parties should embrace the urgent necessity to dialogue and unify all the oppistion parties with the principal objective of terminating at the poll the life of alleged corrupt and retrogressive regime under the incumbent governorship of Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala-“a regime that has obviously visited tremendous hardship on our people”, he said.

The PDP chieftain, in a statement, said there was urgent need to confront the burning political issue at hand in a non-partisan and altruistic manner if “we must secure peace and development for our state”.

He explained further that in other subsequent elections like the House of Assembly elections, all stakeholders and voters should vote across partisan lines to reflect the spirit of sacrifice and consensus that the governorship coalition entailed.

His call came few hours after a forum under the aegis of Ibadan Patriotic Forum called on the former Governor of the state, Senator Rashidi Ladoja to stpp down to allow a change of government in the state.
The failure or refusal of Ladoja to step, he warned, would give the ruling PDP another foru year tenure in the state.