Akinlade Dumps APM After Losing To Gov Abiodun In Ogun

The hen has come home to roast, the defeated governorship candidate of the Allied People’s Movement, APM, Ogun State Chapter returned to his home party, APC after he was roundly defeated at the Supreme Court by the state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun.

His appeals challenging Abiodun’s election were dismissed at the Ogun State election petition tribunal, at the Appeal Court and recently at the Supreme Court for lacking in merit.

At a meeting held yesteday at Senator Ibikunle Amosun’s resident in Ibara GRA, Abeokuta, the APM members unanimously agreed to return to the APC.

Speaking, Hon. Adekunle Akinlade, the APM former gubernatorial candidate,, “APM was used as a purpose vehicle for us to realise our ambition because of the injustice meted to us by the national leadership of the APC.”

Akinlade further said, “we had resolved before hand that in the event of our victory at the polls, we were to go back to APC because we are the real landlords. This was the assurance we gave President Muhammadu Buhari’.

Meanwhile, Amosun, the immediate past governor of Ogun, appreciated the spirit of the APM members; saying, “you are the real owner of Ogun APC and as such you are not coming to join APC but to continue your activities as landlords.”