A suspended member of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon. Gboyega Aribisogan, on Tuesday led 200 other members of the PDP to join the opposition APC.
Aribisogan, who represents Ikole Constituency 1 in the assembly, was on October 6 last year suspended by his colleagues for 180 legislative days for allegedly holding meetings with the senator representing Ogun East in the National Assembly, Buruji Kashamu, and others perceived to be “political enemies” of Governor Ayodele Fayose.
The lawmaker has since denied the allegation and this is the first time the ruling PDP is losing members since Fayose returned to power in October 2014.
Speaking during his defection at Ward 7 in Ikole Local Government Area, Aribisogan said his action was hinged on the division in the state chapter of the PDP which, according to him, made his stay in the party “extremely difficult.”
Aribisogan was received by the state APC executive council led by the Deputy Chairman, Mrs. Kemisola Olaleye.
Chief Bisi Akande, former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, has decried monetization of politics in Nigeria. Hide quoted text “Nigerian politicians are sitting on a time bomb with the practice and growth of monetisation of politics. “If this is not curtailed urgently, it will soon kill Nigerian politicians and our political system,” he said on Friday at a meeting of Osun APC Elders Forum in his country home, Ila. Akande, a former governor of the state, also urged the APC leadership to continue to uphold the politics of service to the people. “No matter the pressure being promoted by the general outlook of corruption that forms the foundation of the problems in the country, we must not deviate from service to the people. In a communiqué at the end of the meeting, the APC elders also frowned at what they described as politics of stomach infrastructure being imported to the South West states. The communiqué signed by Chairman of the forum, Mr. Sola Akinwun
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