By Dansu Peter
A Chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George is reportedly set to jilt the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The revelation was made by the All Progressives Congress Chairman of Lagos State, Chief Henry Ajomale.
Chief Olabode George is a perceived an arch-enemey of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC. He has serially accused Tinubu as the mastermind of his corruption trial and eventual incarceration for several years.
Chief Olabode George is a perceived an arch-enemey of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC. He has serially accused Tinubu as the mastermind of his corruption trial and eventual incarceration for several years.
Ajomale in a recent interview with The Sun Newspaper confirmed that reported defection of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, where he also declared that all is set for Bode George to defect to the APC.
The Excerpt of the interview as culled from The Sun Newspaper:
What’s your reaction to the recent defection of Senator Musiliu Obanikoro to APC?
I’m not surprised at Obanikoro’s defection to APC. You know he was one of us before he decamped to PDP. When we were in the defunct Alliance for Democracy, AD, he was with us. He benefitted a lot from the party because Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu loved him – Tinubu made him a commissioner in his cabinet when he was governor of Lagos State and later Obanikoro was also given senatorial ticket by AD and that was how he became a senator on the platform of AD – but suddenly for reason best known to him, he decamped to PDP.
But all along nobody took offence to his action because we all knew that Obanikoro will one day come back. Obanikoro is like the prodigal son in the Bible who bite the fingers that fed him, but just like the biblical prodigal son was forgiven by his father, we have also forgiven Obanikoro – that’s to tell Nigerians that Asiwaju Tinubu has a large heart. Tinubu is very accommodating. With what Obanikoro did to AD, ACN and later APC when he was in PDP some would have thought Tinubu and other APC leaders would not forgive Obanikoro, but Tinubu doesn’t bear grudges. He forgives easily. He is not an autocrat or a dictator that some people portray him to be. With Obanikoro now in APC, the next big fish we are expecting in APC is Chief Bode George. He is coming to join us very soon, to join APC in helping to transform Lagos State into Dubai of Africa.
You mean Chief Bode George will be crossing over to APC, are you just joking or something …
Cuts in … I mean it. Mark my words, Chief Bode George will soon be in APC fold. George is on his way to joining the APC, and we will welcome him in a big way.
Look at some of his recent comments, how he has been praising Governor Akinwumi Ambode to high heavens, commending the governor over developmental projects he has been executing in Lagos State.
George is an eminent Lagosian who is passionate about the development and growth of Lagos State, and I praise him saying the truth about Ambode’s administration, that Ambode’s administration is an excellent one. But as I said earlier, it is not a joke, Bode George will soon follow Obanikoro to APC and we are waiting to receive him into APC fold.
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