Politics: Osun APC denies members’ defection to ADC



The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has debunked reports that some members of the party have been defecting into the newly formed coalition of the African Democratic Party.

According to the party, “Those who are spreading this fallacy are only doing so in order to sell a dummy and falsehoods to the unsuspecting members of the public as the Osun State chapter of the APC is solid, impenetrable and intact to the extent that the leading opposition party in the state has been harvesting the members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) almost on daily basis.

This denial was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by the party’s Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi.

Olabisi said the defection speculation is only the wishful thinking of the peddlers, stating, “Our members are deep thinkers who would not see any plausible or justifiable reason to dump a thriving party for an assemblage of visibly frustrated and spent political figures who are men of yesterday having an ax to grind with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu whose Renewed Hope Agenda programmes have been turning the country around for the past two years of his assumption of office.”

He said, “The fact of the development is that those who have been identifying with the ADC were either the expended or expelled former members of the party who had since been shown the way out of our party in the state.”

“The kernel of our message is that it is not true that our party is losing members to the ADC. The true position of the development is that we keep on harvesting willing members of the PDP and some of the suspended APC who have genuinely shown penitence into our fold and it is still counting in droves.

“Some of the dismissed party-less followers of Aregbesola went into a frenzy with the announcement of their principal as the Interim National Secretary of the ADC which could not in anyway be equated with the fact that the APC members have been trooping to the new coalition party,” he said.

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