Election 2023: Southwest Stakeholders Group To Host Presidential Candidates On January 17th and 18th

An association of civil society organizations and professional bodies, represented as The South West Development Stakeholders Forum (SWDSF), has said it has invited the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, among others, to its parleys in Ibadan on security and development.

This was contained in a statement signed by the spokesman of SWDSF, Alhaji Olalekan Ajia, on Monday, stating that among those expected at the parley includes: the presidential candidates of the African Action Congress, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso; Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Kolawole Abiola, and Adewole Adebayo of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) were also invited.

According to the statement, the presidential candidates will be discussing their manifestos and their development plans for the people of the South-West.

The statement read partly, “All is now set for January 17 and 18, 2023 parleys by the people of the South-West, with the leading presidential candidates, at Jogor Centre, Ibadan, on their security and development plans for the South-West region.

“At its weekly meeting on January 1, the South West Development Stakeholders Forum, representing over 30 grassroots South-West interests and associations across party, religious and ethnic affiliations, declared that it has invited Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, and Mr. Peter Obi of the Labour Party.

“Also invited are Mr. Omoyele Sowore of the African Action Congress, Mr. Kolawole Abiola of the Peoples Redemption Party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party, and Adewole Adebayo of the Social Democratic Party.

“The purpose of the parleys is to find common grounds between presidential manifestoes and the aspirations and development plans of the South West people of Nigeria as spelt out in the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria, a non-partisan blueprint prepared jointly by all six Yoruba states, for the region’s security and socio-economic development.”

The South West Development Stakeholders Forum (SWDSF,) is an association of civil society organizations and professional bodies notable among them is the Professional Women’s Group, an organization of women professionals.

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