Over 1000 Obasanjo’s Loyalists Dump PDP, Decamp to APC

The political landscape is taking shape ahead of the
2015 battle. About 1,000 PDP members including the
former National Treasurer, Bode Mustapha, who are
loyal of President Olusegun Obasanjo in Ogun State
have defected to the APC.
Mustapha, also a former member of House of
Representatives between 1999 and 2003 who had
earlier submitted his form of intent for the Ogun
Central Senatorial seat, led other prominent members
of the PDP including the former Chairman of Abeokuta
North, Sunday Akintona. He described APC as a better
alternative to PDP.They warned the Inspector General of Police, IGP,
Suleiman Abba against plunging the country into war
following his removal of the security details of the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu
Tambuwal.
Mustapha said, "In Nigeria, we love sentiments a
lot. Do we know what can happen to Nigeriaif
anything should happen to Speaker Tambuwal?
Nobody knows! The IGP should not put this
country on fire. He should immediately restore
Tambuwa's security aides until a court of
competent jurisdiction declares his seat vacant.
"He was elected as the primus inter-pares in the
House of Representatives. He was elected as
leader by his members and it is only his
members that can remove him as Speaker or a
court of competent jurisdiction. Then and only
then can his security aides be withdrawn.
"When people were defecting to PDP, it was hosanna in
Aso Rock to the extent that Governor Mimiko of Ondo
State defected to the PDP.
"But whatever is good for the goose is equally good for
the gander. When Tambuwal defected, you withdrew his
security aides. Why didn't you do same when Governor
Mimiko defected to the PDP because he was elected on
the platform of the Labour Party, LP?"
The APC state Deputy Chairman, Alhaji Tajudeen
Lemboye, who received Mustapha's form, promised
that the APC would provide a level playing field for all
aspirants in the state.

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