Oyo 2019: Lekan Alli begins local government consultation tour in Ibadan

THE consultation train of All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial aspirant, Mr Lekan Alli, stormed Ibadan North and North-West LGA on Wednesday and was greeted to a wholesome reception.

A good number of the party faithful and members of the community came out to grant audience to the current Secretary to the State Government, who recently declared his intention to run for the Agodi office.

The massive turnout at the local government consultation kick off, was an indication of the people’s readiness to participate in the upcoming electoral process, while it also sent out a message about Mr Alli’s unsuspecting acceptance across and beyond party lines.

The aspirant himself took to his social media handles to express appreciation for the turnout he received from the people of Ibadan Northwest. He wrote: “Today replenished and reinvigorated the true meaning and a new dimension of SOLIDARITY and TOGETHERNESS!

Our fathers, mothers, the youth, and an impressive handful of our party faithful in Ibadan North and North-west, trooped out to show full solidarity towards the message of continuity and progress for our dear pace-setter state.

Without you, there is no me. Without you, there is no us! Today you came out for me and I am overwhelmed and grateful! I promise to always do the same for you. Together we shall prosper, together we shall progress and together we shall triumph!”.

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Many individuals who also spoke to the TribuneOnline spoke about their excitement at meeting the SSG’s ideas and future plan for the state and its people.

Muraina Azeez, one of the respondents who spoke to the Nigerian Tribune, said that consultations by an aspirant with the general population and party faithful were a welcome development and further testament of Alli’s humility.

He further stressed that he looked forward to Alli’s emergence as the eventual candidate of the party in September.

His local government consultation tour, where he will be engaging both the party faithful and members of the public, and intimating them of his plans of prosperity via continuity and progress, is expected to continue to other parts of the state during the week.