PDP south-west chieftain defects to APC

A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Democratic Party in Ogun State and South-West Chairman of The Alternative Movement, Olusola Salau, on Monday announced his defection alongside his hundreds of supporters to the ruling All Progressive Congress.

Salau announced his defection on Monday, in a statement personally signed by him and made available to journalists in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.

The PDP chieftain, while lamenting the low turnout of residents and the result of the recently concluded Remo Federal constituency by-election, said that “there is nothing more for Ogun State PDP, I have finally made up my mind to dump the party.

“An experienced politician like me must know that in Ogun State and the entire Southwest, there is nothing more for the PDP, and I have told the leadership of the party, enough is enough”

He noted that he, alongside his large number of followers, would be joining forces with the ruling party to make it stronger and help make the state better.

Salau clarified that while he decamps to APC, he remains the Southwest chairman of The Alternative, a national opposition movement coalition focused on revitalising and reorienting Nigeria’s democracy towards ideological clarity, integrity, and transparency.

The statement partly read, “I want to make an official declaration that I am no longer LADO, I am no longer a PDP member.

I was the first strong mobilisation expert for LADO’s  House of Representatives election. I was the first person with God’s support who started LADO for Governor.

“As a political analyst, I  have told my followers that we are done with PDP and we are moving in large numbers to join His Excellency, Prince Dapo Abiodun in our next political movement, and we shall be joining other progressives to make APC stronger than it used to be in the past”.

Last week Thursday, former chairmanship candidate of the opposition party for Yewa North Local Government during the 2021 local government elections, Kehinde Olaniyi Akinde had equally resigned from the party.

Akinde in a statement expressed deep disappointment with the current state of the PDP, both at the national, State and local government levels citing injustice and unending internal wranglings among others.

It will be recalled that the former state chairman of the party, Dr Sikirulahi Ogundele and the 2023 deputy governorship candidate of the party, Abdulkabir Akinlade, had also recently, in Abeokuta led hundreds of their supporters to defect into the ruling All Progressives Congress

Both Ogundele and Akinlade had accused the 2023 governorship candidate of the party, Oladipupo Adebutu of high-handedness and hijacking the control of the party as if it were his personal business empire.