The deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2023 election in Ogun State, Adekunle Akinlade, on Tuesday, announced his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
This is coming barely a week after he resigned his membership from the main opposition party, PDP.
Akinlade, aka Triple A, in a statement made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, last week Monday, explained that he left PDP following a “persistent and unresolved internal crises” within the state chapter of the PDP.
The former House of Representatives member and the governorship candidate of the Allied People’s Movement (APM) during the 2019 election had left the APC in the build up to the 2023 election.
Akinlade was granted a waiver when he joined PDP and ran as the Deputy Governorship Candidate to the party’s Ladi Adebutu who lost to Governor Dapo Abiodun of APC.
Speaking with newsmen in Abeokuta on Tuesday, Akinlade announced that he’s joining the APC alongside his loyalists from the PDP.
He said the decision was taken unanimously after a meeting held on Tuesday with the agreement to align with Governor Dapo Abiodun as the leader of the party.
Akinlade said PDP’s crisis has gone beyond redemption.
He said “The whole APM family that went to PDP with me, we have all decided that we are going back to APC and by tonight or tomorrow we will try to meet with the Governor and once we have met with the Governor, we will tell him about the decision we have made today that we are back home.
“We believe that the family will have an open hand to accommodate us back into the fold. Governor Dapo Abiodun is the leader of the party, we are going to align with that leadership. Aremo Olusegun Osoba is the father of party, we will align with that.
“So, we will align with the party fully and whoever is a member of the party who falls into that leadership, we will work with that person.”
Speaking on the planned coalition by major political figures, he described those behind the move as group of vindictive and ambitious politicians who have nothing to offer Nigeria.
He said many of the proponents of coalition are former governors, ministers and government officials who hungry for powers and financial privileges they enjoyed while in government.
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