APC Loses 5000 Members To PDP In Ondo

NO fewer than 5000 members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, in Ondo State, yesterday, defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. This development was the fall out of the crisis that characterised the APC primaries in the state.

Leading the 2000 defectors from the APC, the former leader of the House in Idanre area of the state, Mr. Lanre Oluwarakise said that the party in the state had been factionalised into groups. Oluwarakise said: “The present administration has brought untold hardship, hunger and backwardness to all the legacies of the immediate past administration in the state. Nothing can be pointed to as an achievement going to two years of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu.”

Also speaking while leading ZLP members to the PDP, Eric Samakin said that they opted out of the party because its impact could only be felt in two out of the 18 council areas of the state. Samakin, who led 3000 members to the PDP added the party remained the only progressive party that can salvage the country from the impending doom. Receiving the defectors in Idanre area of the state, PDP leaders, Dr Tayo Dairo, Dr Kola Ademujimi and Mr. Kayode Akinmade said the PDP in Ondo State is “well organised, has the interest of the people at heart with a robust agenda for the youths and women adding that 98 percent of the votes in the area would be garnered for the party.”