Sen. Smart Adeyemi’s organisation, notable PDP chieftains in Okunland defect to APC By NAN

Buhari with an APC flag beside him.
With less than a week to Kogi governorship
election, members of Sen. Smart Adeyemi’s
political organisation and notable Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) chieftains in Okunland
have defected to the All Progressives Congress
(APC).
Mr Fehinti Dada the Director-General of the
organisation and former chairman of Ijumu
Local Government Council, led the group of the
defectors in an elaborate ceremony held on
Monday in Iyara, headquarters of the council.
Receiving the defectors, the APC standard bearer,
Prince Abubakar Audu, commended their
courage, saying that the wind of change
pervading the country had finally come to Kogi.
He urged them to bring their wealth of
experience to bear on the party to enable it shine
at Saturday’s poll.
Dada said that he and the other members of the
organisation defected from the PDP because the
party had failed the people.
He said that a survey conducted by the
organisation showed that the PDP led
administration in the state had collapsed
activities at the third tier of government and
placed council staff on percentage pay.
“I was in Ikole local government area of Ekiti last
week.
“To my surprise, the council did not owe workers
and recorded lot of achievements that had direct
impact on the people, despite receiving less
allocation in comparison to most councils in
Kogi,” he said.
Dada assured Audu that the defectors would work
with the existing party structure on ground and
deliver the council to the APC.
In a related development, Mr Duro Meseko
former member of the House of Representatives,
who represented Kabba/Bunu Federal
Constituency in 2003 to 2007, also dumped the
PDP for APC with thousand of his supporters at
Iluke in Kaba/Bunu constituency.
Meseko said that he and his supporters could not
afford to be left out in the wind of change
blowing across the country and implored the
people of Bunu to come out en-masse and vote
for APC on Saturday.
Sen. Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West
Senatorial District at the Senate advised the
defectors to join hands with older members of the
party to defeat the PDP administration in the
state.
He said that Audu remained the best of all the
candidates jostling to rule the state because of his
wealth of experience in statecraft and verifiable
achievements that had continued to affect lives
positively across the state.

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