The Ogun State House of Assembly, on
Tuesday, rejected defection letters of two members of the House over
failure to prove crisis or division in their party......
The Speaker, Suraj Adekunbi, had read
separate letters informing the House at the plenary on Tuesday that Mr
Biyi Adeleye (Remo North constituency ) and Mr Harrison Adeyemi (Ogun
Waterside constituency) had defected from the All Progressive Congress
to the Peoples Democratic Party.
It was gathered that in the letter of
defection submitted by Adeleye, he had cited division and crisis in the
APC at the state and national level as reasons for defecting, arguing
that the party had been polarized into two factions.
He had added that the new political party shared the same philosophy with him and his constituents.
However, the majority leader, Yinka
Mafe, who spoke after the Speaker had read the letters to the House,
argued that the party was not polarized either at the state or national
level.
He then urged the Speaker to discountenance the reasons advanced by the lawmaker that the APC was polarised into two factions.
Mafe said, “APC has one party chairman in the person of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
“It will be unfortunate if we allow it to go down that APC has been divided whereas the party has not been divided.
“I want you to tell him to prove to this
House that the APC is divided. If he cannot prove it, the Speaker
should use his office to do the needful.”
The Speaker, however, noted that there was no crisis or division in the APC both at the state and national level.
He said, “On this note, the matter will
be set aside until the lawmakers are able to prove to the House that
there is a crisis in the party.”
Also during plenary, the Speaker read
the defection letter of Mr Bowale Solaja (Ijebu North constituency), who
defected from the PDP to the APC.
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