LP, PDP members defect to ACN in Ondo community

The ruling Labour Party (LP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State have lost more of their chieftains and members to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Akoko North East area of the state.

The defectors were led by a former council Chairman of the PDP, Mr Olemija Friday, and those of the LP by its former Chairman in Akoko North East Local Government Area. Friday is a member of the state’s Electricity Board.

The over 1,000 defectors were received into the ACN through the Omoluabi Platform of former Defence Minister, Dr. Olu Agunloye.

Kutelu, who was pioneer Chairman of the LP in the local government, noted that the structure of the LP in Akoko North East has collapsed.

He said all his former executive members of the LP, when he was the Caretaker Chairman of the council, joined the ACN because of the alleged deception of the LP’s government in Ondo State.

According to him, Governor Olusegun Mimiko has tactically abandoned and denied the residents of the area their rights, after assisting him to the position.

He said: “It is very unfortunate that Mimiko, whom I worked with and those who worked with him at the initial stage, dumped all of us and embraced new people that were never there for him during the struggle.

“I discovered also that the ACN has become the party of the people in the Southwest. I join the ACN so that I can assist the party to win the next governorship election. I have left the LP together with members of my executive, ward chairmen, women leaders, among others.”

Source: The Nation Newspaper May 4, 2012. 
http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/45410-lp-pdp-members-defect-to-acn-in-ondo-community.html

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