Alao-Akala to declare gov interest on Thursday

Former governor of Oyo state, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala will formally declare his bid to return to the Oyo state government house in 2015.

Alao-Akala, who lost his re election bid to incumbent Governor Abiola Ajimobi in 2011, told journalists that he would make his intention known at a forum billed for the  watershed events centre in Ibadan, the state capital.

Alao-Akala, an aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said he would hold a procession with his supporters round the capital  on Thursday morning before moving to the venue.

He was deputy to former governor, Rashidi Ladoja, who was elected in 2003 on the platform of the PDP.

After Ladoja’s impeachment on January 12, 2006, Alao-Akala became governor until December 12, 2006, after the Supreme Court upheld an earlier judgement of the Appeal Court invalidating the impeachment.

But he had done enough to secure the party’s ticket for the 2007 governorship election, which he won. He was in office until 2011, when he was defeated by Abiola Ajimobi of the then Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).