Nothing can stop PDP from winning Oyo gov election in 2015 —Alao-Akala

FORMER governor of Oyo State, Chief Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, has said that nothing would stop the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) from winning the 2015 governorship poll in Oyo State. Alao-Akala, who clocked 64 on Tuesday, told newsmen in his Ogbomoso that the party had all it takes to win the election. “There is nothing that can stop the PDP from winning in 2015. We want to capture power and we have all it takes to return to power in 2015. “It is just a matter of time. Everybody will line up behind the person in the front; that I can assure you,” he said. Speaking on his much-touted governorship ambition, he said that he was still consulting and would make official declaration at the appropriate time. The former governor said there had been intensified consultation on his coming back, adding that it was not ripe to campaign now. “When the time is appropriate, I will let the people know. For God sake, I am very old in this game and I have the experience. “Don’t rule out the possibility that I may come out soon. The signs you are seeing now is that a big masquerade is coming out. You know that the big masquerade dances last. “When the big masquerades is out, all others that have been entertaining the people will disappear. I have not asked anyone to come out. They are all eminently qualify,” he said. He said the next election should be between the experienced ones, adding that to unseat a government was not a gambling game. “We have to use an iron to match an iron and a bomber jet to crush an Armoured Personnell Carrier,” he said. He said all that was required in the party was for members to buy into the PDP game plan, adding that whatever that must be done must be generally acceptable. He said the party was not a divided house to win the 2015 election, saying the other parties were more divided than the PDP. “There is nothing wrong with the PDP executives in the state. Some are aggrieved because they felt disenfranchised and wanted to be part of happenings in the party,” he said. Alao-Akala, who said he had enjoyed sanity all the while, urged party members to resolve their differences at home rather than take them to the Wadata PDP house in Abuja. The former governor, also reacting to recent statement that he should by now be a godfather in the party, said he had always been a leader. He said being a godfather could not stop him from contesting, adding that it would make him more effective.