Ogun lawmakers defect to Labour Party

Seven members of the Ogun State House of Assembly and two others representing the state in the House of Representatives on Tuesday defected to the Labour Party.

The Ogun Assembly members, including the former deputy speaker, Remmy Hassan (Odogbolu State Constituency); Samson Onademuren (Ijebu North East); and Adijat Adeleye-Oladapo (Ifo II), all members of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria stormed the inauguration of the membership registration committees of the LP in the state.

The lawmakers, along with other members of the state House of Assembly, had barely a week ago shunned the official inauguration of the All Progressives Congress in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.

The Ogun ACN assembly members were also joined at the LP event by their Peoples Party of Nigeria colleagues in the state legislature, including John Obafemi, Joseph Adegbesan and Salmon Adeleke, representing Remo North, Ijebu North II and Imeko Afon state constituencies, respectively.

Also at the inauguration of the LP membership registration committees was another assembly member, Abiodun Akovoyon, representing Ipokia Constituency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.

The nine Ogun Assembly members were in company with two members of the House of Representatives from the state, Abiodun Akinlade and Razaq Adewusi, respectively representing Ipokia/Yewa South and Imeko Afon/Yewa North Federal constituencies on the platform of the defunct ACN and PPN.

Other party chieftains from the ACN, PPN and the PDP who also attended the event were the governorship candidate of the PPN in the 2011 election, Mr. Gboyega Nasir Isiaka and the followers of the former governor of the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.

Daniel is said to be the major financier of the LP in Ogun.

Addressing the members of the party, the Ogun LP State Secretary, Sunday Oginni, said that the emerging coalition was set to dislodge the ruling APC in the state.

Oginni described the Governor Ibikunle Amosun administration as lacking competence, adding that the LP would correct the anomalies already noted in the current government in the state in 2015.


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