Opeyemi Bamidele dumps Labour Party, joins APC

The Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Opeyemi Bamidele, has defected to All Progressives Congress and led other members of the Labour Party into the APC in Ekiti State. Recall the lawmaker defected from the defunct ACN to Labour Party in pursuit of the guber ticket. The lawmaker representing Ekiti Central Federal Constituency 1 had deployed his platform, the Ekiti Bibire Coalition, to mobilise support for the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, in the March 28 Presidential election.

At a press conference in his Iyin Ekiti country home, Bamidele said, “By and large, politics, if it is meant to serve the common interest, must be a dynamic aspect of human endeavour that embodies a whole process of expression, competition and reconciliation of personal interests for the ultimate benefit of the people. Let me use this opportunity to reiterate that my decision to contest for the governorship of Ekiti State is borne out of my innate conviction and that of many like-minds, most of whom are illustrious sons and daughters of this great state. Though the ACN-led administration then was doing its best, however, its best was not enough for our much expectant but highly disillusioned people.

“Invariably, I would have loved to stand in for the governorship race on the platform of the ACN, as a vision-driven progressive party, under the leadership of an equally dynamic leader, benefactor and mentor of mine, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. But when it became apparent that party primaries for candidate selection was not likely to hold in the Ekiti chapter of the ACN/APC, I had no choice at some point in the course of expressing my intent to offer our people a better leadership than to move to another suitable party where I could be offered the ticket to contest in the ensuing governorship election.”

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