The Lagos State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has told a former Minister of Works, Sen. Adeseye Ogunlewe, that he was free to leave the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC), if he so desires.
The former minister had, in an exclusive interview with a national newspaper, said he had given the PDP certain conditions it has to meet, adding that failure to do, he would be left with no choice than to join the ruling APC.
He also described the PDP as an ‘unserious party’, saying it was not a party anybody with political future should belong to.
Reacting to Ogunlewe’s statement, Chairman of the PDP in the state, Adegbola Dominic, said Ogunlewe’s departure from the party would do the PDP a lot of good.
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Dominic’s words, “Such disparaging remarks are unbecoming and not expected from a 75-year-old man who claims to be a leader of the party.
“Ogunlewe has been publicly supporting and hailing one Segun Adewale (aka) Aeroland, who has been openly declared a non-member of our party by the National Working Committee, and who has been disparaging our leaders and terrorizing them with his thugs.
“Ogunlewe has repeatedly lied that he was present at a meeting where I, as state chairman, canvassed support for the candidate of another party.
This deliberate falsehood was obviously targeted at creating confusion and disaffection among the party members”.
“A respected former state chairman, Capt. Tunji Shelle (rtd), who was present at the said meeting, noted that Ogunlewe was nowhere near the venue of the meeting.
He declared that Ogunlewe is a confused man who should go take a rest.”
Ogunlewe had earlier denied media reports that he has defected to the APC, saying the report that he had dumped the party was not true.
He said rumours of his defection was not true, but, he warned that the party was bedeviled with many crises which if not urgently resolved could spark exodus of people from the party.