Former Organizing Secretary of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, Hon. Mutiu Kunle Okunola, has said
he dumped the PDP for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to support the
National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu if he decides to run for 2023
presidency.
He also said his defection had
finally nailed the PDP in the state, declaring that Lagos was now a one-party
state.
Okunola
was the PDP candidate for Ikeja Federal Constituency in the last election.
He, however, lost to APC’s James
Faleke who had previously defeated him in the race for the same seat in the
2015 general election.
However, after the election,
Okunola dumped the PDP for APC, saying he was not ready to play “bad politics”.
Okunola formally registered with
the APC on Tuesday and he was handed his APC membership card.
Speaking with newsmen, the
politician said he was also motivated to join the APC to give Tinubu the
support he needs to contest the 2023 Presidency.
He said Tinubu has worked hard
for the country and deserves to be the next President at the expiration of the
President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term.
He said though Tinubu has not
made his intention known on the 2023 Presidency, he would begin a campaign
tagged, “Tinubu 2023 not negotiable”.
“So I decamped not for any other
thing but because of Tinubu so that I can put my strength to make the 2023 project
for Tinubu a reality. I believe it is only Tinubu that has the capacity in the
south-west to rule the country”, he said.
Okunola reiterated that his
defection has sounded a death knell to the PDP in the state, saying he was a
sole financier of the party.
“PDP is now in the cooler”, he
said.
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