Ondo PDP Defectors Are Excess Baggage Waiting To Be Shed – Gov Candidate, Ajayi

By Ayodele Oni

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ondo state, Agboola Ajayi has reacted to the defection of some prominent members of the party to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of November election.

Ajayi, in a statement by his media aide, Ayo Fadaka, pointed out that

the PDP has not suffered any damage due to their departure.

Among those that left the PDP are former Governor Olusegun Mimiko and a governorship aspirant, Sola Ebiseni among others.

Ebiseni returned to the Labour Party where he had defected to the PDP and has been picked as the party’s governorship candidate.

Fadaka stated that “the PDP remains unperturbed and unshaken about the decamping of a few members that are joining the APC.

“However we also place on record that their leaving has robbed them of the credibility to command followership as they embark on their solo journeys, thus, for the avoidance of doubt, the PDP has not suffered damage due to their departure.

“We also emphatically place on record that previous to their leaving, they have ceased to be relevant to developments within the Party, completely detached from our preparations for the election, and  had remained redundant within the Party for a considerable length of time.

“As such, their leaving cannot be described as a loss to the PDP, so to say! They were excess baggage waiting to be shed.

“We also take cognisance  of the misinformation that our Deputy Governorship Candidate, Hon Festus Olanrewaju Akingbaso has resigned his membership of the Party and position as one their infantile conjectures.

“Of course they are welcome to their delirious assumptions. However for the avoidance of any doubt, our gubernatorial ticket remains solid, prepared and primed to claim victory in governorship election holding on the 16th of November.

“We also note that Chief Sola Ebiseni who decamped from the Labour Party to contest for the ticket of our Party during the primary elections have now returned to his vomit, of course he is welcome to that.

“Fact of the matter is that he joined us primarily because he had no faith in the strength and clout of that Party to win election in the very first instance, now that he has returned to his Labour Party, and the gubernatorial ticket has been handed over to him and his wayfarer, it is hereby underscored that the Labour Party is not grounded and/or possess any strength to make any effect in the Election.

“We therefore wish to assure the public, our supporters and sympathisers that our preparation to win the election is undisturbed  by the actions of these few people and our commitment to win the election and re-birth a new Ondo State where the welfare of the people will be the commanding prerogative of the PDP administration, will become manifest by the grace of God and support of the people.”