Details: Akala Issues Strong Warning To APC Members

Former Governor Adebayo Alao Akala has issued a strong warning to members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state.

Alao Akala gave the notice when he hosted some of them at his Ibadan residence.

Akala said that “Anybody that calls him or herself a politician can never be a recognised politician without first belonging to a political party.

“The political party will serve as your Identity. It is on the platform of that political party that you will ply your political trade.

“You can never use your surname to contest and win an election, so why can’t we abide by the rules guiding the party.

“Treating that platform that gave you a political leverage with disdain and disrespect will no longer be tolerated.

“The era of members of the party going on radio, granting newspaper interviews or going on social media to tarnish the hard earned image of the party has come to an end.

“Anybody caught in this web of impunity will be sanctioned appropriately as prescribed by the constitution of the party.

“There are rules of engagement and it will henceforth be followed to the latter. This coming state congress, you members of the party will decide who you want as your leaders.

“Anybody clamouring for the party structure is wasting his or her time. The party has returned to the people who are the members of the party.

The people own the party not any leader or stakeholder. Without you followers, we cannot exist as the leaders you call us,”

The former Governor is the chairman of the Elders Advisory Council in APC.