Former Deputy Governor of Ekiti State and the Deputy Minority Whip of the Senate, Senator Biodun Olujimi said it was a rumour that she has defected to the Social Democratic Party from PDP.
READ ALSO: Nigerians attack Governor Ayo Fayose over unguarded statement on Ekiti Workers
She said it was a political gimmick to distract her from her governorship ambition and to cause confusion among the rank and file of her supporters.
Speaking to BusinessDay newspaper, she said: “Many of our people have defected because they do not believe they should go through the agony some of us are going through but I won’t leave the party. This is the party that has given me almost every important assignment that I have had.
READ ALSO: I will disgrace Ayo Fayose – Senator Babafemi Ojudu
“The SDP thing was a gimmick for people to lose orientation because I was there in the public space mobilising and they thought they needed to throw spanner in the works that was the issue of the SDP.
“But suffice it to say that amongst all the former Deputy Governors, I am the only one left. Every other person has gone because of high-handedness, intimidation, harassment and that is not good for our Party.
READ ALSO: BREAKING: Police to ferry Senator Dino Melaye to Lokoja by air – Aide
Those votes are votes that are supposed to be PDP votes. All of them have emerged in all other parties. Are you saying they won’t have votes? They will have votes because they have also been part of the system in Ekiti and they know how it works.â€
It would be recalled that Senator Biodun Olujimi along with her supporters and followers were rumoured to have defected to the Social Democratic Party, SDP from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. She has been at a loggerhead with the incumbent governor of Ekiti State, Governor Ayodele Fayose.
www.sojworld.com © May 2, 2018
Leave a Reply