Former Deputy National Chairman (South West) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George has said that former Works Minister, Adeseye Ogunlewe, returned to the All Progressives Congress Congress (APC), where he belonged.
According to George, Ogunlewe, who recently joined the APC, used to be a member of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), “so he simply moved back to where he came from.”
He also said that gubernatorial candidate of the PDP in Lagos in the 2019 general election, Jimi Agbaje lost because he believes he “knows it all”.
This is just as he added that Agbaje appears to have joined the APC like Ogunlewe.
However, he said that the PDP in Lagos was not losing sleep over anybody’s decision to dump the party.
He made the assertions in an interview with Daily Sun.
George said, “Let them go. Some of them were good guys but now they are going to a place where they do not practice democracy at all. Those people who defected to the APC, from where did they originally come from? They came from APC,” the former Ondo State Military Administrator told Sun.
“Ogunlewe was a member of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), so he simply moved back to where he came from. They came from the APC.
“One of them came to my house and told me that the only business he does is to be a PSP operator and that a letter was written to him threatening to sack him; so because of his daily bread, he had to go back to APC.
“In the case of Dipo Olurunimu, his case was a different ball game. At a time, he was the only PDP member left in the Lagos State House of Assembly when others defected.
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“But they were harassing him and he had to join them. APC is not a political party. Look at that Rita Orji she came around and got the ticket after that she started running around claiming to be the leader of the party in the state.”
“The experience we have had in the South West is that there has been an unnecessary incursion of control over the affairs of the party from the national body.
“There has been interference in the management of the party in the South West and we met some days ago and decided that never again are we going to allow anybody outside of our zone to come and interfere in the affairs of the party.
“Let the leaders face national issues; you cannot know my house more than me. They were handpicking candidates and imposing them on us and we have seen the results, but we are determined that this would never happen again.”
Also, George called Segun Adewale, who is claiming to be the party chairman in Lagos, as a “very sick young man”.
He said, “Segun Adewale’s case is laughable; we need to pray for him, he is a very sick young man. The national body of the party has written that he is not a member of the party.
“If he says he is the chairman, I don’t know what party he is leading; but it is definitely not this PDP. We fought a good fight in the presidential election, we worked for Atiku and we are sure he won. But for Agbaje, he said he knows it all.
“We didn’t work against him; it is the people of Lagos that worked against him. Where did Agbaje originally come from?
“Was he not part of the ruling party in the state from the beginning? Some people are saying he is now in APC and all his movements indicate that he is now with them.”