A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State, Jamiu Olawumi, says the leadership of the party thwarted efforts by Governor Ademola Adeleke to defect to the APC.
Olawumi made this known on Thursday, when he featured on ‘The Morning Brief’, a programme on Channels Television.
He accused the governor of lobbying to join the APC from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, through which he won the 2022 governorship election.
“The reasons for our rebuffing them are the results of our findings, civil servants who were being made second-class citizens against their counterparts from Ede were all pleading that we should not allow Governor Adeleke to come to the APC.
“So, the communiqué of the PDP in Osun State, given 72 hours ago, confirms our position that he was lobbying to be part of the APC,” the chieftain said.
According to him, the governor could not be the leader of the APC in Osun if he defected, stressing that the leader of the party is Bisi Akande.
The APC chieftain said contrary to the claims by Governor Adeleke’s media aide, Hezekiah Bamiji, that two Osun lawmakers; senators Francis Fadahunsi and Olubiyi Fadeyi, who joined the APC recently fell into a trap by defecting, the lawmakers abandoned the PDP because they did not want to be part of a mess.
Osun APC rebuffed Gov Adeleke’s effort to join party — Chieftain Olawumi reveals
