Candidate of the Labour Occasion, LP, within the 2024 Edo State governorship election, Olumide Akpata, has denied claims that he’s planning to defect the All Progressives Congress, APC.
There have been experiences that Akpata was set to defect to the APC.
Nevertheless, Akpata has described the experiences as mischievous and false.
In a publish on X, he wrote, “Up to now 24 hours, a malicious, mischievous and totally false hearsay has been concocted at nighttime alleys of social media, and sadly amplified by mischief-makers, alleging that I’ve deserted the @NgLabour Occasion, the very platform on which I contested the 2024 Edo State gubernatorial election, to hitch the All Progressives Congress, APC.
“This isn’t solely false however laughable. I state with out equivocation that I’ve neither contemplated, mentioned, nor effected a defection to the APC and for the avoidance of doubt, I’ve no intention of ever becoming a member of the APC.”
DAILY POST experiences that Akpata contested the Edo State governorship election on the platform of the Labour Occasion. He nevertheless misplaced to APC candidate, Governor Monday Okpebholo.
