In Oyo State, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has denied ever merging with the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Also, it denied rumors that it intended to back APC presidential nominee Bola Tinubu and PDP gubernatorial nominee Governor Seyi Makinde in their respective races.
Dr. Olu Agunloye, the SDP’s national secretary, called the claim inaccurate and malicious in a statement Wednesday.
Kola Balogun, the former minister of power and steel, does not have the right to speak on behalf of the party, he asserts, pointing out that the party suspended him in August 2018 and then expelled him in February 2019.
Agunloye pointed out that Balogun was suspended in 2018 while serving as the SDP’s acting state chairman in Oyo in advance of the 2019 governorship race for disclosing party papers to the PDP.
Balogun, according to him, is not welcome by the SDP.
He insisted that Supo Shonibare had left the party for four years after being ousted on February 11, 2019, and that Shonibare had since joined another political party at the beginning of this year.
