A former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Bola Ilori, has said that the national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, instructed them to join the Alliance for Democracy (AD). According to Daily Post report, Ilori said this on a political programme on TVC.
Ilori reportedly said Tinubu took the decision following the way he was treated by the national executive committee members led by Chief John Oyegun on the party’s governorship primary election in Ondo State which held on September 3. He was quoted as saying: “I don’t know APC before; it was Asiwaju Tinubu that said we should move to APC and we did.
“He has said AD is the option now; even if he said AA we won’t look back before we move to the party.
“All they are doing in the national headquarters of the party is anti-Tinubu policies; not in Ondo alone but also in Kogi, Edo, Ogun and other parts of the country.
“Let Oyegun resign first and the problem of the party will be drastically reduced.” Ilori said they don’t have an option but dump the party as they are not happy with what is going on. He claimed that some people were committing evil using the name of President Muhammadu Buhari, wondering why the president was silent. “Someone who keeps silent in a situation like this, it is either the person is a coward or confused,” Ilori added. Report had it that Tinubu wanted Segun Abraham to become the party’s candidate, ahead of the November 26 governorship election in the state. However, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu was declared winner of the APC governorship primaries after polling 669 votes, with Tinubu’s candidate coming second. Ilori was said to be staunch supporter of another aspirant, Olusola Oke, who came third in the primary. After he lost, Oke defected to the AD with some of his supporters and he is expected to fly the flag of the party in the coming poll. A former governorship aspirant under the APC, Gani Dauda, has been picked as his running mate for the governorship poll.
