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    Olubadan’s Younger Brother, Kola Balogun Explains Why He Dumped PDP For APC

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    Jun 15, 2022

    The Senator representing Oyo South Senatorial District, Kola Balogun, has explained why he defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.

    Recall Kola Balogun resigned his membership of PDP on 3rd May 2022 following the refusal of the PDP to give him a return ticket to the Senate.

    Kola Balogun in his defection letter read at the plenary on Wednesday, 15th June said his decision to dump Oyo State’s ruling party was due to the lack of internal democracy in the party at the state level which he claimed prevented the formation of leaders and representatives.

    He added that the development has further led to the existence of several factions and aggrieved groups within the party.

    He said: “The decision to resign was informed by the Oyo State Governor’s reign of impunity that had led him into supplanting the constitutionally assigned roles of party bureaucrats and party stakeholders and replacing them with unilaterally declared decisions on who and who should emerge as the legitimate representatives of the people

    “This unconstitutional, flagrant and dictatorial procedural breaches for the emergence of leaders and representatives of the people has led to the factionalization of the party, this breeding several aggrieved groups within the party and mass exodus of key leaders from the party.

    “This development has laid the foundation for the failure of the party at subsequent polls and also stands to jeopardize the political future and interest of my people, who had worked assiduously to get me elected in the 2019 February elections.

    “Rising from the meeting of the key stakeholders in my district, on 27th April, 2022, my people unanimously decided that I should resign my membership of the People’s Democratic Party as they were ready to also rain and decamp en masse with me to the All Progressives Congress with immediate effect.

    “This notification becomes exigency in order to intimate the Distinguished Members of Senate with the recent political developments in the PDP-led administration in Oyo State, and the direction in which my people and I are presently focused.”

    This article was originally published on Naija News

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