BY OLUMIDE ABUDU
Scores of members of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, as well as other political party have defected to the All progressives Congress, APC, in Ondo State.
The politicians were received into the APC fold at an event which also witnessed the re-dedication of APC State Secretariat burnt by hoodlums during the #endsars protest in Akure, the state capital.
Speaking at the event, APC State Caretaker Chairman, Mr Ade Adetimehin applauded the new members for their decision occasion came to existence as a result of the decision to join the APC train.
Some leaders of the defectors including former PDP National Youths Leader, Mr Dennis Alonge, Akin Aibinuomo, Prince Johnson Atayese, Mr Omotayo Johnson opined that they joined APC because of the excellent work of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu across the state.
Welcoming the new party members, Governori Akeredolu charged them to see themselves as full APC members in the state charging the state’s acting executive members to carry along all party faithful in the interest of the party.