POLITICS
Defection: Jimi Agbaje, Ogunlewe, others returned to APC where they
belong – Bode George
Former National
Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George, has
disclosed that the party’s governorship candidate in Lagos State in the last
election, Jimi Agbaje, appears to have joined the All Progressives Congress,
APC.
George also
revealed that Agbaje failed in the last election because ‘he thinks he knows it
all’, adding that it was Lagos people that worked against him.
He said that Agbaje
originally come from the APC and had been part of the ruling party in the state
from the beginning.
According to the
PDP leader, any member of the party that wants to leave should go, adding that
Sen. Adeseye Ogunlewe, who recently joined the APC, was a member of the
Alliance for Democracy (AD), “so he simply moved back to where he came from.”
“Let them go. Some
of them were good guys but now they are going to a place where they do not
practice democracy at all. Those people who defected to the APC, from where did
they originally come from? They came from APC,” the former Ondo State Military
Administrator told Sun.
“Ogunlewe was a
member of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), so he simply moved back to where he
came from. They came from the APC.
“One of them came
to my house and told me that the only business he does is to be a PSP operator
and that a letter was written to him threatening to sack him; so because of his
daily bread, he had to go back to APC.
“In the case of
Dipo Olurunimu, his case was a different ball game. At a time, he was the only
PDP member left in the Lagos State House of Assembly when others defected.
“But they were
harassing him and he had to join them. APC is not a political party. Look at
that Rita Orji she came around and got the ticket after that she started
running around claiming to be the leader of the party in the state.
“The experience we
have had in the South West is that there has been an unnecessary incursion of
control over the affairs of the party from the national body.
“There has been
interference in the management of the party in the South West and we met some
days ago and decided that never again are we going to allow anybody outside of
our zone to come and interfere in the affairs of the party.
“Let the leaders
face national issues; you cannot know my house more than me. They were
handpicking candidates and imposing them on us and we have seen the results,
but we are determined that this would never happen again.
“Segun Adewale’s
case is laughable; we need to pray for him, he is a very sick young man. The
national body of the party has written that he is not a member of the party.
“If he says he is
the chairman, I don’t know what party he is leading; but it is definitely not
this PDP. We fought a good fight in the presidential election, we worked for
Atiku and we are sure he won. But for Agbaje, he said he knows it all.
“We didn’t work
against him; it is the people of Lagos that worked against him. Where did
Agbaje originally come from?
“Was he not part of
the ruling party in the state from the beginning? Some people are saying he is
now in APC and all his movements indicate that he is now with them.”
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