Former PDP State Woman Leader, 2000 others decamp to ACN in Ondo

Camp of Ondo West Local Government chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) received a boost at the weekend as the party welcomed the former State Woman Leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and former Supervisor for Education in Ile-Oluji –Okeigbo Local Government area of the state, Julious Bajewolu and about two thousands of their loyalists into its fold.

The PDP decampees including members of the executives of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the council who were received on the platform of the Omoluabi Platform of the ACN were welcomed into the party by the ACN Chairman, Ondo Southern Senatorial District, Mr Wale Akintimehin.

Mrs Omojuwa who shared the same Ward 11 with the incumbent Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko vowed that she, together with her followers, would ensure that failure of the LP in the forthcoming election starts from the ward by ensuring that ACN get the majority vote not only from the Ward but the whole council. She however warned leaders and followers of the ACN to learn from the crisis that led to the entire collapse of the leadership structure of the PDP before and after the 2011 general election and she urged members to build the party on a solid foundation saying a house that divide against itself would never stand.

Charging the women in the party on the need to play active roles in the emergence of the ACN government come 2013, the Local Government Woman Leader, Mrs Lola Fagbemi, said it was about time the women joined forces with the leadership of the party with a view to unseat Governor Mimiko’s administration so that they could be relieved of hard labour in which she said the government has subjected them to. Another leader from the council, Special Adviser to Governor of Osun State, Bola Ilori, expressed confident that the party if allow ruling the state by voting its candidate as the next governor would create employment opportunities for the youth and transform and ginger the state’s economy which he said has remained stagnant in the last three years.

Addressing the gathering, a governorship aspirant in the party, Dr Olu Agunloye enjoined the people to give their total support to the party until they ensure its victory in the coming poll. He vowed that if he gets the ticket of the party, development of the state’s economy would be his priority and that every resident in the state would be given equal opportunity.

Source: Omoluabi News Bulletin