Olusola Oke’s supporters dump PDP for APC
AUGUST 17, 2015 : ADE AKANBI
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Over 3,400 members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo
State, who were loyalists of the former candidate of the party in
the October 20, 2012 governorship election in the state and now
a member of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Olusola Oke,
have defected to the APC.
At the event held in Igbokoda, the headquarters of Ilaje Local
Government Area of the state, on Saturday, the defectors said
they took the decision to leave the PDP because of the
mismanagement that the party had plunged the country into in
the past 16 years of its ruling.
Addressing the defectors, Oke, who decamped to the APC
shortly after the last Presidential election, said that the time had
come for all Ilaje sons and daughters to dump the PDP, which
he said had brought untold hardship to the people in the
country.
He said, “I am ashamed of being a member of a party that has
plunged the country into calamity. With the revelation coming
out now, I have to apologise to my teeming supporters and
Nigerians that my former party brought Nigeria to her knees.”
Oke, a former National Legal Adviser of the PDP, declared that
the change that had taken root at the federal level would soon
berth in the state in the next year governorship election and the
local government later in the year when elevations would be held
for the third tier of government.
He said, “The change that had taken over Nigeria will come to
Ondo State. This is the time for change in Ondo State. It is not
good for this state to be in opposition to the Federal Government
and hence, this state must be in tandem with the government at
the centre. We want to take over the government both at the
state and local government levels.”
A former leader of the PDP in the riverine areas of Ilaje, Prince
Glory Okuntade, while speaking on behalf of other defectors,
said they were leaving the PDP because they had nothing to
show their teeming supporters in the area in terms of
development that their membership of the PDP had brought to
them.
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Over 3,400 members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo
State, who were loyalists of the former candidate of the party in
the October 20, 2012 governorship election in the state and now
a member of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Olusola Oke,
have defected to the APC.
At the event held in Igbokoda, the headquarters of Ilaje Local
Government Area of the state, on Saturday, the defectors said
they took the decision to leave the PDP because of the
mismanagement that the party had plunged the country into in
the past 16 years of its ruling.
Addressing the defectors, Oke, who decamped to the APC
shortly after the last Presidential election, said that the time had
come for all Ilaje sons and daughters to dump the PDP, which
he said had brought untold hardship to the people in the
country.
He said, “I am ashamed of being a member of a party that has
plunged the country into calamity. With the revelation coming
out now, I have to apologise to my teeming supporters and
Nigerians that my former party brought Nigeria to her knees.”
Oke, a former National Legal Adviser of the PDP, declared that
the change that had taken root at the federal level would soon
berth in the state in the next year governorship election and the
local government later in the year when elevations would be held
for the third tier of government.
He said, “The change that had taken over Nigeria will come to
Ondo State. This is the time for change in Ondo State. It is not
good for this state to be in opposition to the Federal Government
and hence, this state must be in tandem with the government at
the centre. We want to take over the government both at the
state and local government levels.”
A former leader of the PDP in the riverine areas of Ilaje, Prince
Glory Okuntade, while speaking on behalf of other defectors,
said they were leaving the PDP because they had nothing to
show their teeming supporters in the area in terms of
development that their membership of the PDP had brought to
them.
Copyright PUNCH. All rights reserved. This material, and other digital
content on this website, may not be reproduced, published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior
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Contact: editor@punchng.com
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