Kwara State: Former Governorship Aspirant Speaks On His Defection From PDP To APC

Babalola Calls For Liberation For The State

Sunday Babalola, a former Kwara State governorship aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party, on Tuesday stated that he had defected from the party to the All Progressives Congress with his supporters.

Babalola, while speaking with newsmen in Ilorin, said his decision to leave PDP for APC was because the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, returned to PDP.

He stated that he could not stay in the same political party with the Senate President, who he accused of under-developing Kwara State.

Babalola, who was a member of PDP for over eight years, said, “I, hereby, announce my defection from the PDP to the APC. I have defected with over 20,000 supporters who belong to several groups across Kwara State. I am involved in partisan politics because I believe that politics is about service to the people.

“Our dear state needs urgent liberation from the over 45 years of deceit, oppression and primordial politics of ‘stomach infrastructure’, so that the people can be delivered from a people that have held them hostage and put them in the shackles of poverty and underdevelopment for so long.“