IBADAN_Leaders and members of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC)
in Oyo State has expressed their solidarity and support for the
second term ambition of Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo state.
The CPC youth leader, Hafis Oladejo, who led their members to the Agodi
Government Secretariat, Ibadan, also pledge their unalloyed support to the
present administration in the state.
They were accompanied by the former deputy governorship candidate of the
party, Deaconess Esther Olubukola Adedokun, who addressed members of the
press.
Contrary to the position of her former boss and governorship candidate in
the 2011 election, Alhaji Adebayo Shittu, who insisted on contesting the
2015 govenorship race with Ajimobi, the former deputy governorship
candidate said the teeming members of the defunct party, who have joined
the All Progressive Congress (APC) were totally in support of the second
term ambition of governor Ajimobi.
 she disclosed that they had  gone round the local government areas in the state, including Oke
Ogun where Alhaji Shittu hails from, to sensitize the people on the need
to support the sitting governor to succeed.
 Deaconess Adedokun added that they cannot win governorship election alone as CPC, because there is no more CPC and they are now part of APC and the only symbol they have in Oyo state now is Governor
Abiola Ajimobi.
Explaining on why she had refused to support her former boss, Shittu, the
former deputy governorship candidate said, "Though our relationship still
remains cordial, the difference between me and Alhaji Adebayo Shittu is
that while he wants to eat rice, I want to eat beans.
"He wants to become governor, but I am supporting the sitting governor to
continue for second term to complete the good work he has been doing.
Barrister Shittu wants to be governor of APC, but I face my governor as
leader," she said.
The former CPC chieftain also used the occasion to rubbish the proposed
national conference mooted by President Goodluck Jonathan noting that the
PDP had ruled for 14 years yet there are no improvements.
She further stated that if they were serious about discussing the fate of this country, they
ought to have allowed the confab immediately the military left in 1999 adding that it is likely to end up as another wasteful exercise.

She therefore call on the PDP to allow another party to administer noting that they would see the difference.

If after eight years, the APC does not change things for better, then they can let
us have a confab. But definitely, it is not now," she said.