Ogun lawmaker dumps PDP for APC, cites management disaster

A member of the Ogun State Home of Meeting representing Ijebu North Constituency I, Rasheed Kashamu, on Monday introduced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.

Kashamu, who introduced his defection on the ground of the Home, cited irreconcilable variations and divisions which have polarised the opposition get together on the state and nationwide ranges.

Studying his letter at plenary, the Speaker, Oludaisi Elemide, stated the lawmaker formally notified the Home of his resignation from the PDP and his choice to hitch the APC, citing factional disputes on the nationwide degree and management tussles on the state degree as causes for his defection.

The lawmaker, who can be the son of a former senator representing Ogun East, the late Sen. Buruji Kashamu, stated he aligned his choice together with his resolve to hitch different progressives within the state to help Governor Dapo Abiodun’s strides beneath the ISEYA Agenda and the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu.

He defined that, “after a overview of the present state of affairs of the PDP on the nationwide degree, with factions and unresolved management crises, and as somebody who rode on the pro-people legacy and help of my constituents in Ijebu North I State Constituency, I’ve agreed with my leaders and teeming supporters that we must always transfer en masse into the APC.

“So, with the intention to deliver our successful system in Ijebu North I into the APC and totally help Mr Governor’s ISEYA Agenda, in addition to the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, alongside my teeming supporters, we are actually members of the APC.

“I’ve since joined the APC at my ward in Oke Sopen, Ijebu-Igbo, Ijebu North Native Authorities Space of Ogun State, and I’m able to contribute my quota to additional strengthen the ruling get together and entrench good governance throughout the state.”

He knowledgeable the Home that he had joined the APC at his Oke Sopen Ward, Ijebu-Igbo, Ijebu North Native Authorities Space, alongside his supporters from throughout Ijebu North.

His spouse, uncle and different well-wishers had been current as his co-lawmakers, led by the Speaker, formally welcomed him into their fold on the Meeting Advanced, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

There has not too long ago been a big wave of defections from the opposition PDP to the ruling APC, involving high-profile figures, together with governors and lawmakers, in states comparable to Bayelsa, Rivers and Enugu.

Most of the defectors have cited divisions and irreconcilable variations throughout the PDP, following the emergence of factional management beneath Sen. Tanimu Turaki and Muhammed Abdulrahman as performing chairmen for a bunch loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.