Lagos PDP Chairman Announces Defection to APC

By Oladipupo Awojobi

Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Hon. Moshood Salvador, has announced his defection from the party to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Salvador, who spoke to journalists at his residence in Eric Moore, Surulere, Lagos on Monday revealed that he would be leaving the party with 15,000 members on Monday, September 3.

The politician, who expressed his regret over “abandoning the work we started,” stated that he had to leave the PDP since, according to him, the party is full of leaders that cannot lead the party to victory.

“The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP as well as the National Chairman of the party, Hon. Uche Secondus called me yesterday for the first time since my travails over the killing of the Chairman of the party in Apapa Local Government, Mr. Adeniyi Aborishade, started.

“They wanted to know why I am leaving the party. I told them I could not stay in the PDP with Chief Olabode George. There are about 8.5 Million registered voters in Lagos State. They gave the power of the party to Chief Bode George, whose wife is working with the APC as the Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA),” he said.

The party chairman stated that he had to go to where the interest of his people would be protected and that they would not regret going to the APC with him, where he said they would be given jobs and better life.

“Not less than 15,000 members of the PDP are moving with me. We will be announcing our defection officially in Agege Stadium on Monday September 3 and you will see the crowd that would be at the event.

“I spend a lot of money on the members of the party regularly and they are ready to go with me. They cannot leave me alone and they are the ones asking me to go. They used to visit me in Ikoyi Prison everyday. I thank God that the Nigerian Police did their work and I was set free by the court.

“I did not shoot or attack anybody, where Aborishade was killed. They were only trying to implicate me. Bode George is the problem of the PDP. I handed over to the Deputy Chairman of the PDP over one month ago and I informed the leaders of the party through a letter,” he said.

Hon. Moshood Salvador had last week blamed Chief Bode George for his travails over the murder of the Chairman of the Party in Apapa Local Government, Mr. Adeniyi Aborishade in July.

Addressing members of the party in Maryland area of the state on Thursday, Salvador alleged that Bode George and his supporters cooked up the story that he was behind the killing of the party chieftain.

Salvador told the members that the party had organised local government visitations since the gathering the party was holding in Oregun area of the state could no longer contain the members of the party.

Salvador revealed that they had visited about 13 local governments and that they were in Epe and Ibeju Lekki Local Governments on the fateful day, adding that they saw the trouble makers before they moved to Eti Osa Local Government.