BREAKING: Mass defection rocks Kogi APC ahead of SDP governorship candidate’s visit to Omala

The Omala Local Government Council structure of the ruling All Progressives Congress has been hit with mass defection of its executives and wards as the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP was set to visit on Wednesday.

CAPITAL POST learnt that some APC stakeholders met to discuss the way forward and realized that governor Yahaya Bello’s cousin and the governorship candidate of the APC, Ododo Ahmed Usman is highly unmarketable apart from being unfair for him to take over from Bello as governor, which they envisaged, would not change anything better from the precarious situation they all faced in the almost eight years and resolved that they should defect to the SDP.

CAPITAL POST further learnt that the defection which would be en masse was triggered by the planned visit of Alhaji Muritala Yakubu Ajaka whom they have worked with over time.

In a letter of resignation of an APC chieftain and Omala Ward 1 Chairman, Elder Omale Abdul which was obtained by our Correspondent, confirmed confirmed the resolution how the executives were set to ruin the party at the grassroot level.

It was gathered that the executives have not benefited from the party in almost eight years of Yahaya Bello’s administration, while they recalled that in the “days of the Peoples Democratic Party, party executives could point to financial gain which they use to purchase cars for themselves: a development they said had never happened in the last eight years.

A party elder who spoke with CAPITAL POST revealed that the “mass defection has been arranged to take place in broad day light at the Native Authority Primary school when the SDP candidate come around.”

“The massive defection to SDP by an elder statesman, Mr Omale is a bold step by taking a heroic move ahead, this is the first of its kind since the inception of APC’s political activities in Omala Local Government”.