Ondo state: PDP slams Olusola Oke for defecting to APC

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- The Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo state has faulted Chief Olusola oke over his recent switch to the ruling All Progressives Party

- PDP descried Oke as a fair-weather politician

- However, in a swift reaction, Oke's camp mocked the PDP, claiming that the party was bitter because the respected politician snubbed the PDP for APC

The Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has lambasted Chief Olusola Oke for returning to the All Progressives Congress, describing him as a fair-weather politician.

Oke, a former national legal adviser of the PDP, left the APC, after the September 3, 2016 primary of the party for the Alliance for Democracy, to contest for the November 20, 2016 governorship election won by the incumbent governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu.

Oke, who returned to the APC last Thursday, said he took the decision in order to assist Akeredolu to develop the state.

In a statement issued on Sunday by the Director of Publicity of the PDP, Mr. Ayo Fadaka, the party said, “We note with bemusement the continuing political somersault of Olusola Oke and his supporters and thus merely conclude that these are politicians of fortune whose politics is not dictated by a desire to serve the people but to be counted within the ranks of the party in power.

“We are disappointed that a politician of Oke’s status, nurtured in the traditions of political piety while in our party, can continue to immerse himself in this ludicrous APC.”

But Oke’s media aide, Mr. Rotimi Ogunleye, said the PDP was only disappointed because Oke failed to return to the PDP after appeals by its leadership.

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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that Olusola Oke, the Alliance for Democracy (AD) governorship candidate in the last Ondo state election, said his need to protect the interest of his supporters and develop his state, was what informed his decision to return to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Oke would made the formal declaration of his decision in a rally scheduled to take place at the MKO Abiola Democracy Park in Akure, the state’s capital, on Thursday, January 18.

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