2023: SDP Speaks On Alliance With APC, Its Presidential Candidate, Bola Tinubu 

The presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has received another shocker from one of the opposition parties, the Social Democratic Party over its controversial alliance with the ruling party.

Online reports had earlier circulated a statement by a chieftains and former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of SDP, Mohammed Alfa that the party was considering going into an alliance with the APC presidential candidate ahead of the February elections.

The rumour, which sparked a glint of excitement and relief to some members of the ruling party, was expected to be a booster to the chances of Tinubu over his co-contestants for the plum job.

However, the report was punctured on Thursday in Abuja after a media briefing organised by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Rufus Aiyenigba.

Aiyenigba described the report by Alfa Mohammed as “false claim.”

The spokesperson stated that Mohammed, ex-Deputy National Publicity secretary, was no longer a member of the party.

He recalled the leadership had severally disowned comments and publications credited to the former official.

Mohammed was removed as deputy spokesperson in November 2018 and suspended in March 2019 by the National Working Committee (NWC).

Speaking on the claim, Aiyenigba said Mohammed was expelled by the National Executive Committee (NEC) in August 2019, a decision upheld at the National Convention in June 2022.

“Currently, Mohammed is a member of the APC and even a strong member of one of the support groups of that party.

“There is no way a man who is playing such role in APC could be said to be an official of the SDP”, he noted.