Two remaining PDP House of Assembly members defect to APC in Ondo

By Dayo Johnson Akure

Two remaining members of the People’s Democratic Party successful the Ondo State House of Assembly, person defected to the ruling All Progressive Congress, citing interior situation successful the absorption party.

With the development, each the 26 members successful the State House of Assembly present beryllium to the ruling All Progressive Congress.

They see ýthe erstwhile House Minority Leader, Olajide Oguntodu, representing Akure South 1 Constituency, and his deputy, Oluwatoyin Daodu, representing Akoko South West 1 Constituency.

ýThe lawmakers announced their resignations during a plenary league presided implicit by the Speaker of the House, Rt Hon. Olamide Oladiji, successful Akure.

ýIn their resignation letters, the 2 lawmakers cited extended consultations with family, constituents, and enactment leaders, who advised them to articulation the ruling party. ýThey besides cited ongoing interior disputes wrong the PDP arsenic portion of the reasons for their defection.

ýThe Speaker work their letters of resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party and welcomed them to the ruling All Progressive Congress.

ýOladiji expressed optimism that their defection would heighten the APC’s numerical spot successful the House. ýWhile describing their defections arsenic a important milestone successful Ondo State’s governmental history, helium urged the caller APC lawmakers to lend positively to the party’s growth.

Recall that the party’s Director of Media and Publicity, Leye Igbabo and the party’s Publicity Secretary Kennedy Peretei person since resigned from the party. Peretei successful his resignation missive alleged that the enactment of the enactment utilized it to commercialized astatine each predetermination year.

On his part, lgbabo alleged that the enactment had go hostile to effectual and businesslike show of his duties, hence his resignation.

Meanwhile, the caller authorities president of the party, Hon Dupe Aisida, has appealed to members “to hide the events that divided the members into factions, but worked unneurotic to reconstruct assurance successful members, rekindle anticipation successful members and supporters alike.

Aisida, said “we person been bruised, sometimes by the enemies outside, astir times by cracks wrong – however, similar the thenar histrion successful the storm, the PDP has bent, yet it has ne'er broken. We volition emergence again – stronger, wiser, and much determined. My squad and I stock a communal vision: unity without objection and advancement without exclusion”.

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