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PDP flays ex-National Legal Adviser Olusola Oke’s return to APC
Peter Dada, Akure
The Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has lambasted Mr. Olusola Oke for returning to the All Progressives Congress.
Oke, a former National Legal Adviser of the PDP, left the APC after the September 3, 2016 primary of the party, for the Alliance for Democracy on the platform of which he contested the November 20, 2016 governorship election eventually won by incumbent governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu.
Oke, who returned to the APC last Thursday, said he took the decision “to assist Governor Akeredolu to develop Ondo State.”
In a statement issued on Sunday by the Director of Publicity of the PDP, Mr. Ayo Fadaka, the opposition party expressed disappointment about Olusola Oke’s latest political move.
In the statement, the PDP noted that Nigerians were tired of the administration of the APC, saying it was wrong for Oke to have returned to the ruling party when it has lost its popularity all over the country.
The statement read in part, “We are disappointed that a politician of Olusola Oke’s status, nurtured in the traditions of political piety while in our party, can continue to immerse himself into this ludicrous APC…
“We wonder how Sola Oke does not know that the nation is only waiting with bated breath for the next day at the ballots, to cast off the yoke of his new party.”
However, Oke’s media aide, Mr. Rotimi Ogunleye, said the PDP was disappointed with Oke’s return to the APC because he refused to return to the PDP after much appeal by its leadership.
He said, “I sympathise with them (PDP) because their frustration flows from the fact that the PDP leaders had persistently mounted pressure on Chief Oke, begging and appealing to him to come and help them revive their dying party in Ondo State.”
