As the crisis rocking the Ondo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic (PDP) continues to linger on, two House of Representatives lawmakers from the party are now on the verge of joining the All Progressives Congress. The duo, who will soon be officially welcomed into the opposition party are the representative of Akoko North East/West federal constituency, Gani Dauda. He was elected into the Assembly on the platform of the Labour Party (LP), but later decamped with Governor Olusegun Mimiko to the PDP early last month and Okitipupa/Irele federal constituency representative, Albert Akintoye a.k.a HOT. DailyPost authoritatively gathered that the lawmakers will soon make their official declaration at the APC State secretariat before the end of this week. The State Vice-Chairman of APC, Engr. Ade Adetimehin said their defection will be a boost for Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuawal to still remain as Speaker. While confirming his defection, Akintoye in a telephone interview with DailyPost attributed his planned defection to the unresolved crisis that trails the defection of Dr. Mimiko to the PDP in the state. The legislator said the PDP in the state had witnessed unprecedented political decadence since Dr. Mimiko decamped to the party a month ago. Hon. Akintoye said he expected Dr. Mimiko to carry every party member along and involve them in the scheme of things, but he rather adopted divide and rule tactic due to his selfish interest. “How can you just come into the party and say you want to take over the party at the detriment of the old members and destroy the existing structure?” “Everybody in Ondo State knows that Mimiko left Labour Party because the party had lost credibility and relevance in the state. We expected the leadership of PDP to address and handle the issue appropriately but instead, they rather did otherwise”. Hon. Akintoye who was a former council Chairman in the state and the only PDP legislator in the lower House from Ondo State berated governor Mimiko for causing uproar during the party ward congress in the state. With the crisis in the party, Akintoye said President Goodluck Jonathan will lose the state during the 2015 general elections, if it’s not resolved. The lawmaker said he spent his resources to sustain the PDP in the area in the last six years of the Labor party and wondered why the governor should be allowed to pay him with evil. “How can a governor pick sisters of the same parent for House of Assembly and House of Representatives?. The speaker of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Jumoke Akindele and Princess Oladunni Odu are born of the same parents”. ” The governor has endorsed Princess Odu to go to the House of Representatives and her immediate younger sister who happens to be the Speaker is to contest for the state House of Assembly. This is a game plan against my ambition. It is against the tradition of the PDP. PDP is not a party of father, mother and child as they did during their days in the Labour Party. I will not tolerate that” he said. It will be recalled that two members of the state House of Assembly,
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 04:59:49 +0000
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