Ondo Guber Poll: LP Aspirant Backs PDP, Plans Declaration In Style 

Ojajuni, who is National President of Afenifere National Youths Council (ANYC), and the Obi/Datti South West election coordinator, conveyed the decision to collapse his structure in a letter delivered to the PDP’s gubernatorial  candidate, H E, Agboola  Ajayi, at the PDP Secretariat on Thursday.

Furthermore, he mentioned another former Labour Party guber aspirant, Otunba Charles Fanimoyo, as part of the collaboration with the PDP, adding that also involved in the arrangement are some of the Party’s stakeholders across the 18 local government areas in Ondo state.

Ojajuni explained that the decision was reached to collapse his political structure for the major opposition party in the forthcoming gubernatorial poll was reached after due consultations among his LP supporters across the 18 Local Government Areas.

According to him, preparations are in top gear, for a public declaration of the decision, at an event he claimed would be quite grand.

In a related development, the trend of movement by opposing parties’ members into the PDP heightened on Thursday when members of All Progressives Congress (APC)j from across the 10 wards of Akoko North West Local Government, defected to the PDP, at a carnival-like cross over ceremony which took place at Oke-Agbe Akoko.

Among the decampees were Hon. Omojola, the immediate past Councilor of Arigidi Ile ward, who led  about hundreds members to the PDP from the APC.

While lamenting APC’s failure  to deliver on its campaign promises, thus making members subjects of ridicule in the state, Mr Danladi Abu, who spoke on behalf of the decampees from Ward 2,  likened the APC to “a secret cult that treats members unfairly”.

Abu expressed confidence that PDP would secure victory in the November election, noting that ahead of the forthcoming elections, the  mass defection is a significant setback for the APC in the state.

Also one of the decampees, Tayo Onifade, said the crossover ceremony “marks the end of the APC in the 10 Wards where we decamped from.

He said,; “You can see that we have all left the APC, could you have ever imagined that APC members from the Ward of a serving Minister of interior can abandon the party the way we did today and the cross over ceremony held here in his ward peacefully

“This place we are right now, where this event is taking place, is the Ward of the Minister for Interior, OlubunmmiTunji-Ojo. Unfortunately, he will return to meet an empty Ward. Alreathe  mass defection is a significant setback for the APC in the state.

Among the APC leaders, who led other members and supporters to the PDP include Babatunde Ijaya, Yaya Saka, Olori Adedeji, Hon Omolola, former APC Counselor in the Local Government, Ade Adewebi and Hassan Helen  among others .