Ondo PDP Chairman With 5000 Others Dump PDP For APC
Category: Nigerian National News
Barely 24 hours to the visit of President Goodluck Jonathan to Ondo State, a former chairman of the PDP in the state, Chief Sanya Orungbemi, and 5,000 others from the Akoko North East local government area of the state yesterday defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The leader of the defectors and former senatorial aspirant, Mr Jide Ipinsagba, said at a press conference in Ikare-Akoko, that they decided to dump PDP because of the injustice in the party.
He said: “We leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party in Akoko North East Local Government Area and over 5000 teeming supporters are moving from a deadly party to a progressive party.”
He lamented the rate at which people were moving out of PDP since Governor Mimiko joined the party in October last year.
Mr. Ipinsagba stated that old members of the PDP in the state are no longer allowed to have any say in the affairs of the party except what the governor imposes on them.
“We are leaving PDP to for APC to restore the glory and ensure the development of our area and our people. Not only the people of Akoko are tired of the current trends in Ondo state and Nigeria at large but every right thinking person.”
The defectors were received into the APC by its state chairman, Hon. Isaac Kekemeke and other leaders.
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