ABEOKUTA– Olusola Salau, the South West chairman of The Alternative, a socio-political movement founder by People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Otunba Segun Sowunmi has dumped the party.
Salau announced his defection on Monday, in a statement personally signed by him and made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital.
The PDP chieftain, while lamenting the low turnout of residents and result of the recent concluded by-election held in Remo said, “there is nothing for Ogun State PDP, I finally made up my mind, an experienced politician like me must know that in Ogun State and the entire Southwest, nothing for PDP and I told all the leadership of the party, enough is enough” he stressed.
He noted that himself , alongside his large number of followers would be joining forces with the ruling party to make it stronger and help in making the state more better.
Salau clarified that while he decamps to APC, he remains the Southwest chairman of The Alternative; a national opposition movement coalition focused on revitalizing and reorienting Nigeria’s democracy towards ideological clarity, integrity, and transparency.
The statement reads, “I want to make an official declaration that I am no more LADO, I am no longer a PDP member.
I was the first strong mobilization expert for LADO’s House of Representatives election. I was the first with God that started LADO for Governor.
“As a political analyst, I have told my followers that we are done with PDP and we are moving in large numbers to Join His Excellency Prince DAPO ABIODUN in our next political movement, and taking APC from other parties to make it stronger than we have heard about it in the past.
“ I am looking forward to seriously work with the party and the Executive Governor of Ogun State” the statement concluded.
