Politics
Over 3,000 APC, ZLP Members Join PDP In Oyo State
No fewer than three thousand members of the All Progressives Congress and Zenith Labour Party in Oyo State have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party.
The politicians who defected to PDP from Itesiwaju, Iwajowa, Kajola and Iseyin, were received by the Chairman of the party Kunmi Mustapha, at the weekend.
Other chieftains of the party in attendance include Azeez Akodudu, Mr Ojebiyi Johnson, Mr Musa Salahudeen, Chief O.K. Salam, Chief Ojewumi, Baba Ige and Alhaji Muraina Siaba.
The defectors, who were led by Chief Basiru Ahmed Aranse, described their defections to the ruling party homecoming.
Mustapha while speaking on the defection described their action as the end of APC in the four local government areas.
He charged the decampees to be of good conduct.
He urged them to join hands with the leadership of PDP at the ward, local and state levels in other to give a boost to Governor Seyi Makinde’s drive to make PDP the preferred party by Oyo State citizens.