PDP campaign Council appoints him Chairman Mobilisation Ondo South Senatorial District
The pillar of support for APC in Odigbo LG on Saturday crumbled as a prominent figure in the party , Alhaji Yusuf Abdulateef alias Sheu Agba and his supporters dumped APC for PDP on Saturday .
Alhaji Abdulateef who moved into the PDP with all his supporters across Odigbo LG numbering over five thousand as they tropped out to welcome the PDP flag bearer and his team to Ore town .
Defying the rain , the people keep chanting a song in Yoruba as the large crowd march through the streets of Ore to the PDP Secretariate where their decamping took place chanting, Alhaji Sheu Agba oooo, e bi e ba n lo la nlo ( Alhaji Sheu Agba, wherever u go we go ).
The mammoth crowd were so much that vehicular movements within the town was disrupted for over three hours as they moved along singing and dancing that they are free from APC bad governance as they are sure their votes would take PDP and Agboola Ajayi to Alagbaka government house by 2025.
Speaking during the decamping ceremony proper , Alhaji Sheu Agba said both he and his supporters have taken a bold decision to dump the APC because of their bad governance in Ondo State and Nigeria that has only breed hunger , poverty , expensive petrol and lacking all democratic principles/reward systems .
“They tried to bend us to stay in their party , offering millions of naira in the last few days but I resisted them because I am for the masses and the masses are suffering the effect of bad governance in Ondo State , what is the essence of me taking their money and all my supporters, thousands of them continue to live in poverty and hunger, I won’t go in such direction , we believe Agboola Ajayi has the experience and the credentials to redirect the ship of Ondo State to prosperity that’s why we decided to join him in PDP so that together we can liberate Ondo State ” Alhaji Sheu Agba said .
The popular Muslim cleric who anchor the campaign drive of Senator jimoh Ibrahim for Senate in Ondo South Senatorial District which the APC won then said he has arrived into the PDP with all the people that performed the electorial victory for APC and Senator Jimoh Ibrahim then stressing that this time around , Ondo State Governorship seat is for PDP and Agboola Ajayi as from 2025 .
Also moving their supporters to PDP from APC , a group called Iya Ikale group , a very strong group in APC decamped to PDP with their members numbering up to one thousand .
The group which hold firmly Idi Mango area of Ore town said she has decided to join the PDP because APC reward system is bad and really not in existence , ” they don’t take care of their party members and citizens in Ondo State , we can no longer stay in their party , as from today we have decided to join the PDP” their leader , Mrs Akinmoye said.
Speaking while accepting all the decampes to the PDP, the chairman of Ondo PDP Campaign Council, Olorogun Eddy Olafeso thanked them for coming in their thousand into the PDP and promised the PDP will never disappoint them or cut short their expectations .
The Campaign Council, led by Olorogun Eddy Olafeso announced the appointment of Alhaji Sheu Agba as the Chairman , Mobilization , Ondo South Senatorial District of the Campaign Council .
Other notable leaders present at the occasion apart from the flag bearer of the Party , H E Agboola Alfred Ajayi includes , Rt (Hon) Bakita Bello, Chairman Caretaker Committee , PDP , Ondo State, Hon Clement Faboyede, a Director General in the campaign council, Engr Ademulegun, Lady Lydia Olafunmiloye , Dr (Mrs) Lovelyn Yemi-Ese , Hon Rasheed Elegbeleye , Ayo Fadaka and others .
In a similar development , APC members in Ajue yesterday decamped to the PDP, they were received into the party by Hon Clement Faboyede who enjoined them to be steadfast in the Party stressing that PDP reward system does not recognize maybe you are a new or old member but your work will earn you your reward in the Party.
Sam Ogunmusi
Director , New Media
Ondo PDP Gubernatorial Campaign Council