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By Chinelo Obogo
Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has disclosed that members of the party will contest the forthcoming local government elections on the platform of the Labour Party (LP).
Speaking during a press conference yesterday, the Chairman, Moshood Salvador, said the party made the decision to have an alliance with LP to create a platform for its candidates to contest the elections pending the judgment of the Supreme Court over who the authentic national leader of the party is.
He said: “Political alliance is an agreement for cooperation between different parties on a common agenda, often for the purpose of contesting an election and we remain committed members of the PDP any day and anytime. We only have a pre-electoral alliance with LP to contest this coming council election only.
“Our members, who aligned with the LP contested for the primary at the Labour House and they won. The primary was supervised by LP officials and monitored by the Lagos State Electoral Commission, so their candidatures are authentic.
“The Ali Modu Sheriff group of Lagos PDP, are less than 10 percent of membership in the state while the Makarfi group has over 90 percent of the real membership of the party. The people of Lagos are ready to vote PDP into power at this council election, because the All Progressives Congress (APC) did nothing to the people at the local government level, this is why we are determined and ready to make the positive change in all the local government areas and the local council development areas.”
He also claimed that the Makarfi-led group of the party had more members than the Sheriff-led group and as such, the party was confident of victory in the forthcoming polls.
“We appeal to lovers of PDP in Lagos State to cast their votes for the Labour-PDP alliance and vote for Labour Party. This arrangement does not mean we have decamped to any party. In this pre-electoral alliance, we have 342 councillor candidates and 52 chairmanship candidates. Our candidates should start posting their posters, commence the house to house campaigns and educate electorate on the circumstance of our using Labour Party for this council election only,” he said.
