Dr Nureni Aderemi Adeniran, former Oyo State Commissioner for Education and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has disclosed his main reason for defecting to one of the opposition parties in the state, Accord party was because the ruling party lacked discipline.
The former commissioner who served under the immediate past governor of the State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, has during his maiden interaction with journalists after his presentation as the new state Publicity Secretary of Accord by its chairman, Bashiru Lawal on the 3rd November 2013, made this declaration.
He stated that he waited for so long in the party (PDP) thinking that it would come to appreciate the need to forge a common goal towards staging a comeback to the Agodi Government House, but it soon became glaring that the PDP as a party was not ready for anything of such.
“Unfortunately, the hullabaloo taking place at the National Secretariat of the party is not helping matters. When the national body that suppose to rein in the recalcitrant state chapter is itself not at peace, it is not difficult to predict what becomes of such party at the next poll,” Adeniran was quoted to have said.
He explained that his reason for joining the party (Accord) in the first instance was his belief that “it remains the only alternative party to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state and it is a party that is poised to gain power in the state unlike the PDP where things has fallen apart and the falcons could no longer hear the falconer”.
He debunked the claim that those of them that had worked closely with the former governor Alao-Akala before, but who had crossed to Accord now were there to prepare the ground for the eventual defection of the former governor from the PDP, stressing that he had no prior discussion with
Akala before his decision to cross over to Accord.
Aderemi however said that if the former governor Akala should think the way he thought before he took the decision and decide to defect to Accord, he would be welcomed with open hands the way he (Adeniran) was welcomed.
“The doors are opened to everybody desirous of joining hands with those of us thirsty for positive change in the state and if the former governor Akala decides to come over, he will be given a rousing welcome befitting his status as a former governor”, Adeniran stated.
