Labour Party on Friday suffered a setback as all its 21 local government chairmen defected to the APC in Kogi State. The Labour Party chairmen defected to the ruling APC with scores of their supporters.
leader of the defectors, Mr Awe Kayode, said that they decided to collapse their structure into the APC in order to support the party’s governorship candidate, Usman Ododo, in the forthcoming Nov. 11 governorship poll.
Kayode also said that their defection became imperative when they realised that the LP was no longer viable in state.
“Another reason for our defection is our conviction that the APC candidate, Usman Ododo, has shown that he is a unifier whose nationalist qualities are needed to consolidate on the achievements of Gov. Yahaya Bello.
“I was in APC before I left to join the Labour Party. I am back today with more people and we are ready to add value. LP got more than 76,000 votes in the last presidential election; we still have the same people that worked to achieve that feat.
“The state belongs to all of us and we have decided to jettison ethnic or religious agenda to support the candidate of APC who promotes the Kogi Agenda.
“Indeed Labour Party structure in the state was a formidable one that delivered massive votes to the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, without inducement or support, but we want to do same to APC and Ododo this time around,” he said.
