The African Democratic Congress, (ADC) governorship candidate in Oyo state during the 2019 general elections, Senator Olufemi Lanlehin and his supporters on Monday resolved to dump the party for the All Progressives Congress, (APC).
Senator Lanlehin and his supporters arrived at the decision during a meeting of the party’s leaders, loyalists and supporters held at Senator Lanlehin’s Adabeji residence in Ibadan.
At the meeting, Senator Lanlehin briefed the Oyo State Executive Committee of the ADC, led by Rev. Ezekiel Adeniran, some candidates of the party in the 2019 general elections as well as his loyalists on the series of reconciliatory meetings he had attended in the conclusion of the plans towards rejoining the APC.
Senator Lanlehin also briefed the meeting of other measures put in place to ensure that APC in Oyo state ” is well reconciled, and takes its rightful pride of place in the governance of the state”.
“The reconciliation process by the National Reconciliation Committee of the APC headed by His Excellency, Governor of Jigawa State, Alh. Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, supported by four other governors, including Ekiti State’s Governor Kayode Fayemi, is clearly succeeding in its given task,” he said
Senator Lanlehin then reiterated his desire to always prioritize the interest of the common man, and that in all the steps he has taken thus far, remaining pro-people has remained centrepiece.
At the end of the meeting, a motion for the eventual movement of Senator Lanlehin and the entire structure of the Oyo State African Democratic Congress (ADC), enmasse into the All Progressives Congress (APC) was subsequently moved, seconded and adopted”.
