About 2,000 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo city, yesterday evening, dumped the party for the African Democratic Congress (ADC), challenging among others, the non-completion of all state government projects in the zone and hijack of the party. The defectors, led by Mudashiru Dolapo Bello and Muyideen Hamzat, were received into ADC at a rally in L.A Primary School, Idi Ope, by the party’s candidates in the zone led by Senator Monsurat Sunmonu, Honourables Gbenga Oyekola, Muyideen Olagunju Alatede, Maroof Akinwande and senatorial executives and leaders of the party and others. According to Bello, APC in Oyo had been hijacked by a few people who are members of the SENACO group loyal to Governor Abiola Ajimobi, adding that impunity had replaced internal democracy and orderliness in the party. He said that Oyo people could not really point to things beneficial to them for the almost eight years that the APC has been in the saddle.
He noted that the Atiba F.M Radio station, the Owode- Ojogbondu and Owode-Aafin roads, the N1 billion silo project in Awe had all been abandoned by the state government, while the radio project had not been started at all. “APC has been hijacked. Since there is freedom of association, we joined ADC yesterday. The people in ADC are largely those we were together with in the APC. They are people who believe in politics of inclusiveness.
We joined ADC because it is a party that enjoys the popular wish of the people. We did not hear of any rancour in ADC in Oyo zone during the nomination of candidates”, he said. In his remark, Oyekla said that “the only tertiary institution that supports local economy in Oyo, Emmanuel Alayande, has been operating epileptically as a result of irregular and outright nonpayment of salaries. “The roads leading to farms and inner cities roads were neglected by the local government councils and when all the legislators in Oyo Federal Constituency led by Senator Monsurat Sunmonu contributed money and brought bulldozers to grade these roads and make them motorable
