Sunday 1 June 2014
Adeleke finally defects to APC
Former executive governor of Osun State,
Senator Isiaka Adeleke, on Saturday, at the
Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, in Osogbo, the
state capital, formally defected to the All
Progressive Congress (APC), imploring the
electorate not cast their votes for the candidate
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the
forthcoming August 9, 2014 election.
He admitted that the PDP as a party had done no
wrong against him, recalling that “I rose on the
platform of the party to become a senator
maintaining that” the PDP that I belonged to for
some years was not in its totality a bad political
party, because I am aware that there are some
patriotic Nigerians there”.
Adeleke, who commended Governor Rauf
Aregbesola for what he termed enviable
achievements recorded so far said “I am here
today to tell the world that I am making a U-
turn from PDP to APC to prove that I am
capable of advancing my political career and
joining forces with people of like minds, who
believe in peace, progress and prosperity for our
people and generations yet unborn.”
Recalling the alleged assault on him on the
premises of an hotel, in Osogbo, a few days to
the conduct of the PDP’s primary election, he
said “PDP has not wronged me in any way. I
rose on the platform of the party to become
Senator and other feat I have attained in
politics. But, I am calling on the people of Osun
not to vote for the candidate of the PDP, Senator
Omisore in the August 9 election”.
In his remark, Governor Aregbesola described
the defection of Adeleke to the APC as someone
who had chosen to come back to his rightful
home, stressing that “I have told Adeleke long
before now that his father, who was the Balogun
of Ede did not join the conservatives while
alive and that his people in Ede do not belong
to the PDP”
He stated, “he has come back home. In
Yorubaland, we do not belong to the PDP. Their
reign had failed to better the lots of the masses. I
don’t want to talk much about the failures of the
party. This is because some of them are still
talking to us and they are coming”.
“They (PDP) did not allow former Governor
Oyinlola to perform when he was in government
for almost eight years. No man of virtues would
identify himself with the PDP, considering the
misery, bad governance and failure they have
caused Nigerians. We celebrated our
independence some days ago, what have we got
to show for it”, Aregbesola queried.
While calling on members of the APC and the
new members to work before they can benefits
from the party, he declared that “you have to
work before you can eat. I am saying it
publicly”.
Addressing the crowd, the governor of Ekiti
State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi said “you need to
vote for continuity in Osun and change in
Abuja. The truth is prevailing now and we
know that the people are behind us”.
Dignitaries at the event included the interim
national chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi
Akande; national legal adviser of the APC, Dr
Muiz Banire; chairman of Aregbesola’
campaign committee, Senator Sola Adeyeye;
Osun State Commissioner for Finance, Budget
and Planning, Dr Wale Bolorunduro; interim
chairman of APC in Osun, Elder Adelowo
Adebiyi; Commissioner for Information and
Strategy, Mr Sunday Akere; Ekiti State
governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi and Senator
Babajide Omoworare, among others.
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