The lawmaker representing Oriade/ Obokun federal constituency of Osun state, Hon. Oluwole Oke, has disclosed that internal crises and a breakdown of leadership within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) made him to leave the party.
Hon Oke said this on Wednesday while featuring on “Frontline”, a current affairs programme on Eagle 102.5 FM Ilese-Ijebu noted that
The Chairman House Committee on Public Accounts also disclosed that President Bola Tinubu’s leadership style contributed significantly to his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“I’ll just put it simply that my former party’s internal mechanism is not working and the party is fractured. It’s like a divorce. It’s like the marriage. It has broken down, it has become irretrievable. That’s the way I’ll put it”, he said.
Hon Oke added, “In respect to the leadership of PDP as it is today, they have failed totally, to manage that party that we suffered, we labored to build for these years. How did we get there?
“We caused it, we were not just being strategic, we didn’t plan, we planned to fail and we failed. I don’t discuss members of my political family, those that we’ve had cause to work together, I don’t discuss them in the public”.
The lawmaker noted, “I’m not trained to do so. But, you know it is very clear that, that party is in the mud. Perhaps, there maybe a miracle. It may wake up in 2028”.
Hon Oke stressed further that President Tinubu’s boldness step to revamping the economy by removing the fuel subsidy and the floating of the naira upon his inauguration on May 29, 2023.
Oke stands to be commended by all.
The lawmaker dismissed speculations that his move and similar defections in Delta State were motivated by financial inducements, saying, such claims were unfounded and untrue.