Buhari Counters Oyedepo Over Defection Claim

Iyiola Oyedepo’s claim that over 800 members of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State defected to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been countered by a chieftain of the APC.

The Kwara APC Publicity Secretary, Suleiman Buhari, said the defection claim by Oyedepo, who is the Chairman of the PDP in the state, holds no water.

Buhari accused Oyedepo of misleading unsuspecting populace in the Kwara North Central Zone into believing that the said APC members in Alanamu ward, Ilorin West Local Government Area, had defected to his party.

“What happened was that the North Central Zonal leadership of the PDP visited Kwara State and a factional chairman of the PDP in Kwara State, Mr Iyiola Oyedepo, decided to entertain his guests with stage-managed and choreographed political drama of defection,” said party’s state publicity secretary.

“Indeed, there was no defection. Dr Hanafi Alabere, who was said to have led the defection, is not one of us. The man is also not a part of us.

“The drama of defection anchored by Iyiola Oyedepo would have made huge sense if it portrayed the movement of PDP members from one faction to the other within the PDP,” he told newsmen.