Accord Party has kicked against the lawmaker representing the Egbeda State

Constituency in the House of Assembly,Ibrahim Bolomope for defecting from the party to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), threatening to drag him to court.

The party's Publicity Secretary, Dr Nureni Adeniran, told newsmen in Ibadan on Sunday, that the party would invoke the relevant portion of the nation's

constitution against Bolomope by taking him to court with a bid to stop him from continuing to parade himself as a lawmaker representing the constituency having defected from the party upon the platform of which he was elected in the first instance.

After months of speculations, Bolomope last Thursday on the floor of the House after the presentation of the 2014 Appropriation Bill to the lawmakers by the state governor, Abiola Ajimobi declared his defection to the APC.

This, he said became necessary in view of the wonderful performance of the governor, adding that his conscience would continue to prick him,  if he continue to remain in the group of people criticizing the governor for non-performance, when in actual fact, the governor had tremendously done well.

In the first official reaction of the party to the defection of Bolomope, the

party's State Publicity Secretary, Nureni Adeniran told journalists that the party would approach the court to withdraw its mandate from him, because of his betrayal of the party.

Adeniran explained that the step would be taken in response to the members of the party in the Egbeda State Constituency who had come to the state secretariat of the party to protest the action taken by Bolomope and demanded that he be made to lose the seat so as to replace him with another loyal and committed member.

The Publicity Secretary maintained that except for the request by the members of the party in Bolomope's constituency as noted above, the exit of the lawmaker from Accord party “is nothing the party can lose any sleep over, because, he has for a long time proved himself a disloyal and non-committed party member”. Bolomope, according to Adeniran “has lost touch with the people he claimed to be representing and not for once did he speak against the actions of the state government that were seen to be contrary to the ideals of Accord party which sent him, so, to the party, his exit is a good riddance to bad rubbish.

“For him now to be talking of conscience is curious, because he never showed that he had one when the government was sacking teachers and bulldozing away the people's means of livelihood, a step that affected so many people in his Egbeda Constituency despite repeated calls on him by the party to react.

“As a former state chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), one would have thought that he would be at the vanguard of those protecting the interest of workers in the state, but, unfortunately, he was not seen then to be counted and this puts question mark on his claim of being pricked by conscience, he has none”, the party said.