No fewer than 3,050 members of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) and Accord Party(AP) in the Ibadan South East Local Government Area of Oyo State yesterday defected to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).

A breakdown shows that 2,200 former AP members were from the camp of the former chieftain of party, Hon. Alabi Waliu, while the other 850 were from the camp of the former First Secretary of the PDP in the Ibadan South East Local Government Area, Chief Muftau Adegboyega.

The ACN chairman in Oyo State, Chief Akin Oke, who was represented by the council party chairman, Engineer Kayode Arowolo, who received the defectors into the party called for mutual co-existence among old and new members, urging the defectors not to feel alienated, but see themselves as members of the same family.

Oke said the defection was an attestation to the sincerity of purpose and sense of belonging of the ACN towards ameliorating the age-long impoverishment of the residents by the former PDP-led administration in the state.

Earlier in his welcome address, the Transition Committee Chairman of the Ibadan South East Local Government Area, Alhaji Abass Bolaji Najimudeen, who had earlier commissioned three public toilets in schools, one borehole and a transformer within the council area, explained that the defectors were convinced by the quality of jobs that the ACN has been doing in the state.

“I want all of you to be peaceful and unite with us because this is a collective government,” Najimudeen said.

The spokesperson for the AP defectors, Hon. Waliu, said their desire to join the ACN was inspired by the performance of the caretaker chairman of the local government, Alhaji Najimudeen.

He said :” I left the Accord Party because there is no unity among the members, and we have all seen what Governor Abiola Ajimobi has been doing to transform this state. So we want to support him because it is not necessary to oppose a progressive government.”

Also his counterpart from the PDP, Chief Adegboyega, said they were tired of insanity and leadership tussle in the People’s Democratic Party, adding that “that is why we have come to join the progressives.”

He described the council boss as “friendly and tolerant.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/3050-pdp-accord-party-members-defect-to-acn-in-oyo/

The Commonwealth of Yoruba Race is advancing forward > > >

Musiwa isn't going to appreciate you renaming his country.


Looks like Tinubu is really hurting these boys in the SW, though 3000 sounds like inflated propaganda.

Later somebody will tell me that CAN is a wonderful party.
All these parties are the same, there aim is to get power and embezzle as such as they can