- Akeredolu reportedly in talks with Okunomo, Olafeso
- Jegede has pocketed the PDP, he’s on a vengeance mission – Bitire
- Says he spearheaded the failure of Dennis Alonge as State Chairman
The Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) and the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ondo State have begun move to harvest some aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who are not happy with the choice of Hon. Ikengboju Gboluga as Eyitayo Jegede’s running mate.
Starnews NG gathered that two of the governorship aspirants from Ondo South have summoned an emergency meeting of their followers from across the 18 local governments of Ondo State after the candidate of the PDP, Jegede named Gboluga as his running name via his Facebook account on Monday.
Sources in the PDP confirmed to our reporter that some of the bigwigs in the PDP from Ondo South who believed their interests with Jegede are not protected if he becomes the governor of the state were said to have met with some officials of the Ondo State government behind a closed door at Cozy Hotel in Alagbaka ahead of the State governorship election on October 10, 2020.
Akeredolu is reportedly in talks with Banji Okunomo, and Eddy Olafeso to join and collapse their structures for the ruling APC in the state, Starnews NG can report.
Agboola Ajayi and former governor Olusegun Mimiko of the ZLP have also begun phone conversations with some of the aggrieved PDP chieftains and aspirants to join the Zenith labour party.
Meanwhile, a former local government chairman in Okitipupa Local Government and a pioneer leader of the PDP in Ondo State, Hon. Solomon Bitire said that Jegede has pocketed the PDP for not having a larger heart to give a sense of belonging to the members of the PDP outside his political camp in the just concluded primaries.
While speaking with Starnews NG on Monday night, Bitire said: ”all the viable names of politicians suggested to him outside his political camps were rejected by Jegede as he insisted he can not work with any one of them.”
”Jegede is on a vengeance mission since he emerged the candidate of the party.”
”He rejected to work with Agboola Ajayi, Ondo State deputy governor who angrily decamped to the Zenith Labour Party which is now described as the third force in Ondo State.”
”He spearheaded the failure of Mr Dennis Alonge as State Chairman of the party because he is not a member of his camp which made him threw his weight behind Fatai Adams, a member of his political family who emerged the new state chairman of the PDP in Ondo State.”
”The last straw that breaks the camel’s back is his insistence to choose another member of his political camp as running mate”
”So, he has already pocketed the PDP. He is not liberal. If he becomes the governor of the state, our interests cannot be protected and that’s why we are here for discussion with some chieftains of the APC to move out of the PDP”, he said.
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