Members and chieftains of major political parties in Ondo State have defected to the Labour Party.
The defectors are from the state’s Akoko South-East/Akoko South-West Federal Constituency and are members of the All Progressives Congress, Peoples Democratic Party, and Social Democratic Party.
The defectors also expressed support. Peter Obi, the LP’s presidential candidate, at the ceremony, which was held in Isua Akoko, the state’s Akoko South-East Local Government Area headquarters.
One of the leaders of the defectors and former House of Representatives aspirant of the APC, Mr Stephen Adeyeri, said Obi’s impeccable track records coupled with his detailed manifesto containing the solutions to myriads of challenges troubling the nation, spurred him and his supporters to join the Labour Party and openly declared his firm support for the presidential candidate.
Adeyeri, who predicted a landslide victory for Obi, said Nigerians were fed up with the two major political parties (the PDP and the APC), which, he said, had failed woefully in the administration of the affairs of the nation. He stressed that the only better alternative was the LP.
He said, “Obi is the candidate to beat because he has proven to be competent among other candidates. His records, while he held sway in Anambraares in the public domain, he didn’t get all of that by subterfuge but by the dint of hard work.
“I’m here to sell the candidacy of Obi to my supporters, and I told them the reason why he must be elected, particularly his plans to move the country from consumption to the state of production.”
