Former governor of Oyo state, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala and the governorship candidate of the party for 2015 election in the state, Senator Teslim Folarin have been told to recall how the All Progessive Congress (APC) used and later ‘damaged many bigwigs that have helped them in the past.
This message was sent by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday in a statement signed by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Prince Diran Odeyemi.
PDP also declared that both Akala and Folarin would have realised their full potentials as politicians, if they had remained in PDP.
“It is a political miscalculation if our respected leaders are going to where they do not belong and could not learn from the experiences of ex governor Rasheed Ladoja, Professor Taoheed Adedoja and other APC big wigs in Oyo State who recently retraced their ways back to PDP after being used and dumped by APC” Odeyemi declared.
PDP said further, “Going by the experiences of many political heavyweights that have left to join APC in the past, Akala and Folarin’s decision to join the party was nothing but a misstep, especially now that majority of Nigerians are waiting on the party to rescue them from the national calamity that has befallen the nation owing to lack of capacity by the federal government to deal with myriad of challenges facing the country.
The party maintained that many politicians that left PDP for APC before 2015 general election are not only regretting their actions presently, because the party demeaned them after riding on their support to secure power, stressing that those still remaining in their fold are never considered as stakeholders in APC led federal government.
Describing Akala and Folarin as PDP gifts to Nigeria, the statement declared that the two politicians have all to lose and nothing to gain from the fast sinking ship of APC, adding that they cannot enjoy the kind of influence and privileges they had in PDP because “APC is good at celebrating decampees and master in dumping them after the ceremony”
The statement reads further: “Ex vice president Atiku Abubakar, Chief Rasidi Ladoja and a host of others have taken the route both Chief Akala and Senator Folarin set to thread and returned to PDP after being used and treated poorly by the APC.
“That is why we are calling on Akala and Folarin both of who are PDP gifts to Nigerians to have a rethink after Saturday’s show-off and make their way back to PDP fold where they can realise their full potentials especially now that Nigerians are waiting on the party to rescue them from the national calamity and lack of capacity APC had displayed at the centre.
“All elephants that have left PDP in the past have been made to become ants by APC and we don’t want both Akala and Folarin to experience same thing. That is why we are calling on them to have a rethink.”
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