Some hours to the governorship and state house of assembly elections, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has received more defectors from the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
This seems to be a very serious challenge to yhe ambition of Seyi Makinde, the Oyo State governor for his second term reelection under the PDP.
Gov Makinde was one of the G 5 PDP governors that worked against the PDP in last presidential election.
The defectors from two PDP groups were received on Wednesday by the State APC Secretary, Alhaji Tajudeen Olanite, at the party secretariat. The two groups received into the APC are Integrity Youth Vanguard (IYF), led by Fola Afolabi, and Idera De Disciples (IDD), led by Tunde Adewumi.
Recalls that five different groups within Oyo PDP, with no fewer than 7,000 members, on Monday joined the APC following its brilliant performance at the Presidential and National Assembly elections of Feb. 25.
The two groups with members drawn from across the 33 Local Governments in the state, came with over 5,000 members to join the APC, expressing their collective resolve to unseat Gov. Seyi Makinde.
Mr Fola Afolabi, the IYF leader, decried the poor handling of Oyo PDP affairs and governance of the state by the governor.
Mr Tunde Adewunmi, the IDD Leader, expressed readiness to work assiduously for the victory of the APC governorship candidate, Sen. Teslim Folarin, and other APC candidates on Saturday.
Adewunmi said that the victory of APC would assuage feelings of victims of the governor’s alleged high-handedness
