Gov polls: Labour Party ‘ll spring surprises in Ekiti, Osun —Nwanyanwu

Ahead of the Ekiti and Osun States governorship elections, the National Chairman of Labour Party, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu, has declared that the party was set to spring surprises in the two states by unseating the incumbents, Dr Kayode Fayemi and Mr Rauf Aregbesola, democratically. Nwanyanwu, who stated this in Abuja, while receiving the one-time chairman of the Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Fatai Akinbade, who was at the national secretariat of the LP to submit his letter of intent to contest the governorship of the state on the platform of the party, accused the All Progressives Congress (APC), of promoting violence in the stronghold states of LP in order to silence it. According to him, “this time around, we are aware of the antics of Governor Aregbesola in Osun State to truncate our victory, himself and government have been harassing and, intimidating our members in Osun State in order to blackmail and silence them, they are threatening that if any other party wins the election, heaven will fall but I can assure you that we will win the election and let heaven falls, we have enough men to hold the heaven if it falls”. “You can see why Governor Olusegun Mimiko, is performing wonders in Ondo State today, he is the only progressive governor in Nigeria today, we want to expand the good things he is doing to other states, he is spending the state money to the people of the state, he has no godfather, LP is a democratic party, we don’t believe in violence, we will win in free, fair and credible elections,” he declared. According to him, “APC has no respect for law and order, they didn’t believe in our impressive outing in Ekiti, they went hay wire, shortly after our campaign in Ikere-Ekiti, they went on rampage and destroyed every thing on sight.’’ , including the cameras and vehicles of a private television station”. He said that the leadership of the party would continue to protect its members nationwide in prosecuting all the elections between now and 2015 in order to get more credible elected as governors,members of the National and State houses of Assemblies in other to make the Country a better place for all and sundry Speaking earlier, Alhaji Akinbade promised to deliver the state to the Labour Party at the poll based on his experience in the administration of the state spanning over 20 years during which he had served under various administrations as a three times commissioner,state chairman of the PDP and Secretary to the State Government (,SSG.) Alhaji Akinbade assured that the victory of LP in the election was on sight based on its rising profile within the last six months he moved in with his supporters promised that all the anti- people policies introduced by the Aregbesola administration He said his government would focus basically on mechanised farming and industrialisation of Osun state noting that the state had arable land that needed to be cultivated to make the state the food basket of the nation. Said he,” We are going to change the education policy in the state. The one that is being used is dragging us backward. The state was 26th in the last result released by WAEC. This is affecting us badly,we are going to focus on two major programs; mechanised and industrialisation. Agriculture will take the army of our youths from cleaning the streets; from the YES programme”.