Alao-Akala not jittery over 2015 polls, says group

Team Akala, a support group for
the re-election of former Gov. Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo
State in 2015, has said that its principal is not jittery over
the exercise.
The group said this in a statement signed by its Coordinator,
Mr Niran Adeyoju, and made available to the News Agency
of Nigeria in Ogbomoso on Sunday.
The group said a statement being circulated that Alao-
Akala was jittery over 2015 was untrue.
The group also condemned the reports that its principal
disrupted the distribution of voting materials for the ward
congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held
across the state on Saturday .
“The former governor did not in any way disrupt the
congress when it is obvious that he was already leading in
virtually all the wards.
“There is no basis for him or any of his political aide to
have led thugs to the party secretariat to disrupt the
process of distribution of materials, when we are already
aware that the congress was already in our favour,’’ it said.
The group said the report was one orchestrated by bad
losers to smear its principal’s name, adding that it was the
stock-in trade of those desperate politicians to cause
confusion.
“We are aware of the desperate moves of some politicians
who are bent on tarnishing the image and credibility of
Alao-Akala by giving false information to the public.
“This, we hear, they are doing through their agents in the
media and social media just because they have been
mobilised to join forces with the opposition against the
return of Akala in 2015.
“To us 2015 is not a do-or-die affair but a call to service.
Alao-Akala has only yielded to the calls by the members of
the public to return as governor in 2015.’’
It called on members of the public to always disregard any
damaging information emanating from the camp of the
opposition both within and outside the PDP, urging media
practitioners to be balanced in their reports.(NAN)