A former deputy governor of Ogun State, Chief Rafiu Ogunleye on Tuesday led about 15,000 members of the ruling All Progressives Congress,\u00a0 and the Labour Party into the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in the state. Ogunleye, who was deputy governor to Chief Olusegun Osoba during the days of the defunct Social Democratic Party said that the defectors were from the 20 local government areas of the state. The defectors stormed the Ogun State PDP Stakeholders\/ Unity meeting and rally held at the State Secretariat of the party in Abeokuta under the banner of Ogunleye\u2019s political association, the Imole Group, to declare for the opposition party. While being received into the PDP by a former deputy Senate president, Ibrahim Mantu and PDP National Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo, the former Ogun deputy governor who led the defectors stated that the detectors had decided to dump the ruling APC. Ogunleye also received the PDP membership card,\u00a0 a flag and\u00a0 a copy of the constitution of the PDP from Oladipo on the occasion. He explained that they took the decision to defect to the PDP due to the alleged unsatisfactory conduct of last year\u2019s local government council elections by the Governor Ibikunle Amosun-led administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A former deputy governor of Ogun State, Chief Rafiu Ogunleye on Tuesday led about 15,000 members of the ruling All Progressives Congress,\u00a0 and the Labour Party into the opposition Peoples…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n