A former Kwara State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirant, Mr Sunday Babalola, on Tuesday said that he has defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, with his supporters, saying he cannot be in the same party with Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
Mr. Babalola told journalists in Ilorin that he decided to leave the PDP for the APC because of the return of the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, to the PDP.
He accused Mr. Saraki of under-developing Kwara State.
Babalola said, “I, hereby, announce my defection from the PDP to the APC. I have defected with over 20,000 supporters who belong to several groups across Kwara State. I am involved in partisan politics because I believe that politics is about service to the people.
“Our dear state needs urgent liberation from the over 45 years of deceit, oppression and primordial politics of ‘stomach infrastructure’, so that the people can be delivered from a people that have held them hostage and put them in the shackles of poverty and underdevelopment for so long.”
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