No fewer than eight members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the Ogun State House of Assembly are set to leave the party following the controversies trailing the primaries to various elective positions in the party ahead of the 2015 general elections.
The eight lawmakers are said to be leaving the party to protest against the purported authentic list of candidates for the 2015 polls released by the party in the state.
According to competent sources among the lawmakers who had resolved to dump the PDP were a former Deputy Speaker of the House, and another two-term member of the Assembly.
Vanguard reports that one of the aggrieved lawmakers in the Assembly, who spoke on the condition of anonymity wondered why the National Working Committee of the party would "hand over the fate of tens of aspirants in the party to one man" to draw up the list of candidates.
The lawmaker, who was one of those who had earlier defected with former Governor Gbenga Daniel from the Labour Party to the PDP about two months ago, said: “They called off the primaries in the state on the pretext that the national body would meet and communicate to the aspirants on the way forward.
"We were still expecting this one to be done when they said three leaders of the party in the state - JMK (a former Minister of Industries, Chief Jubril Martins Kuye); OGD (former Governor Gbenga Daniel); and Buruji Kashamu (Chairman, Membership and Mobilisation Committee of the PDP in the South West) - were asked to meet in Abuja to draw up a list of candidates at all levels including those who contested and those who did not.
"From the list they had submitted to the INEC, only Kashamu drew up the list. The State Chairman of the party (Chief Bayo Dayo) relied on Kashamu’s wide connections in Abuja to conduct the governorship primary on December 8, despite a directive from the NWC, stopping the primary."
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