Gbemi Saraki, Jimoh Ibarahim dump PDP for APC

Senator Gbemisola Saraki

Few hours to the Presidential and National Assembly elections, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Gbemi Saraki, has dumped the party.

Saraki, on Friday, announced her intention to her numerous supporters and her decision to join the opposition All Progressives Congress.

She directed her followers to vote for the APC and its candidates in the general elections, especially General Muhammadu Buhari.

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 Saraki, who arrived in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Friday, told her supporters who followed her from the airport to her home in Iloffa area, to switch allegiance to the APC.

She told her supporters: “I thank you all for always being there for me. All of you know that tomorrow, March 28, is the last Saturday of the month and also the day for the presidential and National Assembly elections.

“I urge you to sweep your environment very well with your brooms.” Saraki is expected to officially declare for the APC any moment from now.

Meanwhile, unconfirmed report says another PDP bigwig in Ondo State, Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim might have dumped the party for APC.

It would be recalled that since Ondo State governor, Olusegun Mimiko decamped from the Labour Party to the PDP, he and the business mogul who had been on ground had been having running battle over who controls the machinery of the party in the state.

On Thursday, the deputy governor of Ondo State, Ali Olanusi had also publicly decamped to the APC.

Giving reasons for his action, Olanusi said he decided to join the All Progressives Congress after realising that the party offers a platform where he can find justice, fairness and equity.

He said, “While still being in place as the democratically elected Deputy Governor of Ondo State, I have decided to lead my teeming supporters and well wishers in the state into the All Progressive Congress (APC) where we can find justice, fairness, equity and democratic liberty, a party to which majority of our kith and kins in Yorubaland belongs.

“I have taken this decision at this critical time, in the best interest of peace, stability and good governance of our dear state and for the overall development of the South West and the nation.”

“They (his followers) have watched helplessly in the last six years years the untold marginalisation and total exclusion from the government they laboured to put in place.”