The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party said on Friday that it had been vindicated by the confirmation that former Governor Gbenga Daniel had joined the Labour Party and had been appointed the party’s “grand patron.”
The Ogun PDP said that the formal announcement of Daniel’s membership of the LP by its state Chairman, Olabode Simeon, and Secretary, Sunday Oginni at a news conference on Thursday, has “put paid to all the denials, intrigues and subterfuge of the OGD Group.”
The PDP, in a statement by its state Publicity Secretary, Mr. Waliu Oladipupo, said, “With Daniel’s exit from our great party, a big political albatross and liability has been taken off the PDP. Now, our people can take our word for it that we are building a new PDP in Ogun State.
A PDP that is devoid of violence, brigandage, bloodbath and other ignoble acts.”
The party, therefore, appealed to its national leadership to withdraw all the goodwill and patronage that hitherto accrued to Daniel courtesy of the PDP-led Federal Government, adding that it was aware that some slots were given to the former governor as a result of the “dummy he sold to the top hierarchy of the PDP that he was still a member of the party.”