Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State, yesterday, said they have moved to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in order to guard against working with Senate President Bukola Saraki.
The state chairman of the PDP, Mr. Iyiola Oyedepo, who led the decampees, also said that the sun had finally set for the opposition party in the state.
This was contained in a statement he jointly signed with the former secretary of the party, Lateef Alakawa.
“With the defection of the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki and his cronies into the PDP in Kwara State, the sun has set on that party in the state.
“I have said it repeatedly that darkness and light cannot co-habit. The clown adept at political manipulation represents sour taste in the mouth of the people of Kwara for the past 16 years.
“We the brand of politicians that build PDP Kwara to a mass movement cannot be part of the odour emitting from the party henceforth,” the statement added.
According to the statement, the leadership of the PDP in Kwara had warned the national leadership of the party.
“We warned the national leadership of the party not to pollute the party heading for victory in the state in 2019… If the party has lost Ekiti, Ondo and Edo since 2015 elections, the party has no hope in Kwara in 2019.
“In Kwara State, we are fighting a cause of liquidating a political godfatherism that has turned dynastic. I and not less than 85 percent of all the structure and members of the PDP at all levels in the state must take our exit at the appearance of this darkness,” the statement said.
It also said most members of the PDP were forced to go to PDP because the likes of Bukola Saraki were admitted into the APC in 2013.
“We have therefore moved into our natural habitat. Let nobody bother us with 60/40% sharing ratio, even if sharing ratio is 90/10% in our favour, we shall still not do political business with Dr Bukola Saraki,” the statement said.
