Minister of Interior, Hon Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has tasked indigenes of Ondo State to speak with one voice on the reelection of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 election.
Speaking during the defection of a former spokesman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Hon Kennedy Peretei, Tunji-Ojo who was represented by the Director General of Asiwaju Mandate Group (AMG) , Chief Muyiwa Asagunla said the time has come for the people of Ondo State to speak with one voice in support of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Peretei, has led key opposition figures and political parties in Ondo State to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Apart from the PDP leaders, others, including the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Action Alliance (AA), were received into the APC with fanfare by the state chairman, Engr Ade Adetimehin.
Peretei had said the new entrants into the APC are ready to join forces with the APC for the benefit of the state’s citizens. He described other political parties out of government as social clubs and no longer political parties.
While he did not support a one-party State, Peretei, however, said the leadership of the opposition is not deliberate, coordinated, and focused on how to win elections and therefore form a government. He said there is no justification for being in opposition.
Consequently, he said, some of them in the Nigeria Workstation, a Grassroots Media Advocacy, Research and Strategy Group, comprising former members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Social Democratic Party, SDP, and Action Alliance, AA, decided to join forces with the progressive family.
He said members of the Sunshine Grassroots Network, a group with the mandate to clean up the remnants of the opposition, have aligned with the APC.
Tunji Ojo who facilitated the decamping specifically thanked Mr President for the ongoing dualisation of the Ore-Akure Road, the Ilesha – Akure – Benin dualisation and the Akure-Ado-Ekiti road dualisation, as well as the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway which is passing through Ondo State.
This infrastructural developments and the various reforms of Mr President, he said, must be sustained beyond 2027.
Receiving the decampees the Chairman of All Progressives Congress APC in the state, Engr. Ade Adetimehin, on behalf of the National Chairman, Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, and the State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, welcomed them to a party he described as having room enough to accommodate all.
He said the Renewed Hope agenda of President Tinubu has positively touched the people of Ondo State and there is the need to repay Mr President by giving him the needed support to continue his good work. He assured the new members that they will have equal opportunities in the party.