Ekiti SDP Deputy Governorship Candidate  Says  Defection Rumours ‘Untrue’

Hon Ladi Owolabi, who was the Ekiti state SDP Deputy Governorship candidate in the gubernatorial election held  in the state on 18 June this year, submitted on Sunday that he had no plans to defect to the ruling APC.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned he issued a statement to clarify that he remains a member of SDP on Sunday.

 ‘The insinuation was just a figment of the imagination of the peddlers’ he said.

‘It was true that  I attended the meeting convened  by SWAGA in Ado- Ekiti because I am a member, most importantly, am an offspring of SWAGA in the coalitions that metamorphosed into the Segun Oni Campaign Organization which populated the SDP in Ekiti state.

It was just reasonable to brief the sociopolitical organization the development on the election and the fallout therein as their representative.

Let me say this in a categorical statement that SWAGA is not a political party and it doesn’t mean members of the group must be in APC. In fact, some of the leadership of APC don’t see the group as part of the party, so I don’t see any reason why some people would now conclude that because I attended the SWAGA meeting I’ve  joined their party’ he added.

 Ladi asserted that  he would remain a member of the SDP ‘till God’s willing’.

‘I am the SDP Deputy Governorship candidate, and it’s only a person that has lost his or her senses that will think that I will abandon my mandate and take a hopeless stand’ he added.

Though the nation’s electoral umpire;  the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared the APC guber candidate, Mr  Biodun Oyebanji  as winner of the gubernatorial election, the APC guber candidate, former governor Segun Oni had submitted a 1,000-page petition and sought to get declared as real winner of the 18 June gubernatorial election by the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal- Team@orientactualmags.com
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