Osun APC chieftain defects to PDP with 8,850 members

Less than a month to the Osun State governorship election scheduled for September 22, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has suffered another ‘tsunami,’ following the defection of another chieftain of the party, Peter Babalola with 8,850 members to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).


Before he announced his defection, in Osogbo, the state capital, at the weekend, Babalola had resigned his appointment as the chairman of Local Government Service Commission and disengaged from Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s administration.
He was one of the 17 aspirants in the forthcoming election under the platform of the APC, but lost in the primary election in which Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s Chief of Staff, Gboyega Oyetola, emerged the winner and candidate of the party.
South West Deputy National Chairman of the PDP,  Yomi Akinwomi, who represented the national chairman, Uche Secondus, while addressing the crowd of supporters when he received the defectors into the PDP’s fold, said Babalola’s defection was a right step in the right direction.

He said that his new party was a veritable platform where he (Babalola) would be able to fulfil his political dreams, compared to his former party, the APC, where the current political climate was no longer conducive for his political aspirations.
Akinwomi, however, called on former PDP members who are still in the APC to return to what he described as their roots before the governorship and general elections next year to galvanise the party into victory in the polls.
He assured them that equal rights and privileges would be accorded to them without any form of neglect  if they returned.
Akinwomi also enjoined supporters of the party and well meaning citizens in the state to vote for Ademola Adeleke, in the gubernatorial poll in order to wrest power from the ruling APC and make life better for the people.

Culled From SunNews