The guests were PDP leaders who decamped to the APC. They were led by the 2012 PDP governorship candidate, Chief Olusola Oke. In the audience was Ondo State Deputy Governor Ali Olanusi, who defected to the APC two days to the March 28 presidential election.
Oke, a former National Legal Adviser of the PDP, said he was nearly blown off by the APC’s wind of change when he resisted joining the party before the presidential election.
Oke said he had surrendered himself as part of the instrument to be used in transforming Nigeria.
The former PDP chieftain was received by Olanusi, the state chairman and his deputy, Isaac Kekemeke and Ade Adetimehin, Senator Ajayi Boroffice, Prince Olu Adegboro, Mrs Fola Olaseinde Vincent, Bola Ilori, Prince Ademola Adegoroye, Prince Adewale Omojuwa and many other leaders.
Thousands of PDP members came with Oke to join APC – an indication that only Labour Party supporters who defected to PDP with Mimiko are now left in the PDP in Ondo State.
Oke noted that he did not join the APC just because President Goodluck Jonathan lost his re-election, but he wanted the wind of change blowing around to also change the present administration in Ondo State.
He said: “I have passionately resisted to be part of this change, I resisted the wind of change that was blowing until it almost blew me out. Now, I have surrendered, I can’t resist no more.
“I have come over not because PDP lost election, but I have come over because the wind of change blowing across Nigeria must blow over Ondo State. Let me commend you leaders for your courage, boldness in bringing about this change.
“In Ondo State, I know what you people have gone through because the forces of darkness that want the status quo to remain but everything in life is constant but change is permanent.
“We have come to add value; we are not here to change. In 2012, when I took the courage to challenge the status quo, I titled my campaign ‘rescue mission’. That rescue mission that I cannot accomplish, the APC has promised a platform for that rescue of Ondo State.
“No power of darkness will stop change from coming to Ondo State. Ondo State is the poorest state in the Southwest and we have no reason to be poor, because we have everything …, but our problem is lack of good leadership, lack of vision by those who are the privileged to preside over our affairs.
“They changed a good government and replaced it with bad government and today there is penury in the land; deceit, unemployment. No industry, no employment, no job, no contract are being awarded and what we have are broken promises, deception and corruption at its peak.
“Olokola that was supposed to be the desire, change to the state was killed. The last time I met Baba Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Baba said his priority is for the revival of Olokola in Ondo State. Mr. Chairman, we have come to join you so that this can be accomplished.”
APC said, “We are expecting nothing less than 25 per cent to the additional strength of the party from our new members. We must come together against one man who believes he’s the best in all things.”
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