Factional Chairman of the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sikirulah Ogundele, has disclosed plans to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ogundele stated that PDP’s current leaders are ‘transactional’ and attributed his intended defection to the unresolved crisis at the national secretariat in Abuja.
He also accused the 2023 governorship candidate, Oladipupo Adebutu, of turning PDP to a branch of the Kensington Adebutu Foundation in the state.
In a statement obtained by DAILY POST on Friday, Ogundele announced his intention to defect to the APC, calling Adebutu’s 2027 governorship bid callous and an insult to the collective intelligence of Ogun voters.
He said, “For Adebutu to be aspiring to run for the 2027 PDP governorship ticket is taking Ogun voters to be gullible.
“Governor Dapo Abiodun is from the same Iperu-ward 3 in Ikenne Local Government Area within the Ogun East Senatorial District, people are wise enough and not gullible to vote for someone whose elder brother will be completing the two terms of eight years as governor in 2027.”
Given the leadership crisis engulfing the party over the National Secretary position, with Senator Samuel Anyanwu and Sunday Udeh-Okoye are vying for ..., Ogundele stated that PDP has nothing left to survive the 2027 general election.
He added, “The party leaders are not managing the crisis properly and people are leaving PDP because of the uncertainty in the party.
“If Governor Sheriff Oborevwori and the immediate former governor and running mate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the 2023 presidential election, Ifeanyi Okowa, could move with the entire structure of the party in Delta State to APC and Governor Umo Eno in Akwa-Ibom State did the same, who is Ogundele not to move to APC now that the PDP is in shambles?”