Former Chairman, Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory(FCT),
Senator Smart Adeyemi has formally dumped the peoples Democratic
Party(PDP) and picked the registration card of the All Progressives
Congress APC).
In a brief ceremony held in his Iyara ward, in Ijumu local Government Area
of Kogi state.
The Senator, in an address said he was joining the APC to enable him serve
his people better.
He added that he had utilised the mandate given to him in the past to
better the lots of the people adding that he was hoping that those coming
after him would follow the same footsteps.
The Seator, who got the Card nunmber 14542741 said he needs to be in the
APC so that he can directly talk to the people in government without a
sense of enmity.
“I need to be in the APC so that we can jointly with Hon Faleke and my
brothers work for the betterment of our people. When I talk to the people
in goverbment about the deprivation of our area as a member of the APC,
they will not see me s an enemy,” senator Adeyemi said.
Deputy Governorship candidate to the late Alhaji Abubakar Audu, Hon James
Faleke who attended the ceremony said that Senator Adeyemi is a valuable
asset to the APC in the state adding that he was determined to work with
his to better the lots of Kogi West.
Faleke said: “I am very happy he is joining us. He is my senior
politically and I have a lot of respect for him. He doesn’t need to be in
politics to survive but he has he love of his people at heart.
“The job of making the society better is not the task of one man. Anyone
who wants to work for his people will not say people should not join him
and that is why I am very pleased with his coming.”
Zonal Chairman of the APC in Kogi West, Chief Lawrence Asagun, who
represented the State Chairman, Akhaji Adi Amatu, said that the coming to
APC of Senator Adeyemi meant that the party would no longer have sleepless
nights in winning the state.
“He was one of those that gave us togh times in winning elections here
when he was in the PDP, with his coming, we will no longer have sleepless
nights in winning elections in this zone,” Chief Asagun said.