Saraki’s followers, others defect to APC ahead Saturday polls
...ANRP guber candidate also backs APC
Wole Adedeji, Ilorin
Barely few days to Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections in Kwara State, over 2,000 members of the PDP in Kwara State, on Sunday, defected to the opposition APC.
The event was a large defection of the followers of Dr. Bukola Saraki in the PDP into the APC in one week after the party (PDP) and the Senate President lost in the February 23, 2019 election.
The mass defections took place in Taiwo Area of Ilorin, led by Hon. Bamidele Aluko, a former House of Assembly member and a staunch foot soldier of Sen. Bukola Saraki.
Aluko, while speaking said they took the decision after realising that the people of Kwara State are tired of a system they had followed for decades and could not get reciprocatory benefit for it.
Meanwhile, the governorship candidate of the Abundant Nigerian Renewal Party (ANRP) in Kwara State Dr AbdulMumeen Yinka Ajia has declared his support for APC’s AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.
Ajia, who has his own appreciable followers among the said in a statement that AbdulRazaq’s victory will turn the page for the political history of Kwara.
He also announced his immediate resignation from the ANRP and movement to the APC “because the situation in Kwara is really not about party but our struggle against retrogressive leadership as a people.”
“I have also gone through his manifesto and I am assured that the progressive, people-centred Kwara that I envisioned can be kick-started under his leadership,” Ajia added.
Aluko, leader of the decampees, was chairman of the Kwara United Football Club and the PDP leader in Badari Ward of Ilorin West, the most populated local government area of Kwara State.
Other top defectors included Alhaji Alao Abdulyekeen, another PDP top gun from Baboko area of Ilorin, and Akeem Dare youth leader from Balogun Fulani ward 1.
Also on Sunday in Ilorin, over 500 PDP members from Asa local government area joined the APC.
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Leaders of the defectors said the outcome of the National Assembly elections was the clearest manifestation yet “that Kwarans have decided to reject and retire Senator Bukola Saraki for reasons of bad governance, oppression and non-inclusive leadership.”
