Ex-PDP Senator Aluko Defects To APC

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Senator Gbenga Aluko, the only senator elected in 1999 in the entire southwest on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has defected to the All Progressives Congress.

Aluko and scores of his supporters defected to the APC in an occasion held at his Ode-Ekiti country home, which was attended by party leaders.

Speaking in Ode Ekiti in Gbonyin local government area during the defection ceremony, Aluko said he would use his connections in the state to ensure that the PDP is defeated in 2018, This Day reports.

Aluko slammed Governor Ayodele Fayose for his unruly behaviour in the administration of the state, alleging that the PDP had become a disaster under the governor’s hold.

According to Aluko, the present APC-led federal government would surely transform Nigeria for better.

He said that he had been in a political journey with President Muhammadu Buhari since their days in the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP).

The Ex-PDP senator also announced an agricultural empowerment scheme for the people in two local governments in each of the three senatorial districts.

He said the empowerment scheme was the beginning of a comprehensive programme that would cut across the 16 local governments of the state to fight unemployment and lift the people out of poverty.

According to him, the first set of beneficiaries will be Ikere and Gbonyin/Ayekire local governments from Ekiti South senatorial district with Ado and Irepodun/Ifelodun local governments from Ekiti Central also topping the list. He said cassava and rice plantations would be given priority with his initial personal financing of the scheme before calling in the World Bank and the federal Ministry of Agriculture to take over the project to expand its scope of operation across the state.

The state leaders present included Kemi Olaleye, the state deputy chairman, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the APC publicity secretary, Paul Omotoso, the state secretary, and the South senatorial district chairman, Kayode Babade, who received the former senator into the party.

Aluko, the son of the late revered economist, Prof. Sam Aluko, was the only PDP senator in the south-west zone between 1999 and 2003 during the first term of ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo.

Source: Naij