The Labour Party has confirmed the
existence of an alliance with the Peoples
Democratic Party for Saturday’s local
government election in Lagos State.
The National Chairman of the LP, Alhaji
Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, confirmed this
development in a telephone interview with
The PUNCH, in Abuja, on Thursday.
He was responding to news making the
rounds that the LP and the PDP had entered
into a strategic alliance with the aim of
defeating the ruling All Progressives
Congress.
Although Abdulsalam was non-committal
when asked to comment on the exact
nature of the alliance, he said the LP and the
PDP agreed to work together to end the
ruling APC’s stranglehold on local councils in
Lagos State.
In response to a question on whether his
party had any agreement with the PDP for
votes to be cast for LP candidates, he said,
“Yes, we have an understanding to work
together to liberate the people of Lagos
State beginning from the local government
level.”
He, however, declined to give specifics on
what was agreed upon and where the
meeting leading up to the agreement was
held.
A former Deputy National Chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode
George, had earlier announced the existence
of a strategic alliance with the LP.
He, therefore, called on Lagosians to vote for
the LP in the Saturday local government
election.
George said this in a statement by his
spokesman, Mr. Uthman Shodipe.
