Suspended ex-Lagos PDP chairman dumps party for APC
Segun Adewale, a Peoples Democratic Party chieftain and former party chairman in Lagos State, has announced his decision to leave his party and join the All Progressives Congress.Adewale, also known as Aeroland, stated this during a news conference in Lagos on Saturday.
According to reports, the PDP in the state's Alimosho Local Government Area suspended Adewale indefinitely last week.
Adewale, whose political stronghold is in Alimosho, was suspended for reportedly promoting disaffection within the PDP and ruining the party's image.
Prior to his suspension, the ex-PDP chairman blamed the party's failure to win elections in the state since 1999 on corruption and dissension among its members.
Adewale stated at the news conference that he was not joining the APC to run in the 2027 election, but rather to support President Bola Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda.
"I am not running for office in 2027, but I will join the ruling party to assist the president. "My next step is to go to Abuja and prostrate to Tinubu," he stated.
In response to his suspension, Adewale stated that his alleged suspension by the PDP in Alimosho LGA was contrived by individuals who opposed him for exposing how they misused campaign funds during the 2023 election.
Adewale stated that his suspension had no effect because his ward had complete confidence in him and had separated itself from the reported suspension.
Adewale also found it absurd that "these same elements being used would act unconstitutionally by suspending me from the party when they do not have such powers."
He stated, "Instead of my party LGA confronting Bode George and his gang, they falsely accused me of stealing electioneering funds that were never given to me in the first place."
"They said I should be suspended for it, so I requested them to come to my ward and suspend me so I could join the APC.
"What am I even doing at this party? I spent millions of dollars during the elections, but in the end, it was not worthwhile.
"I am not even in PDP anymore because I have seen it all and I would not have stayed in PDP till now, but for Atiku Abubakar that begged me to contest in 2023," he stated.
Adewale stated that he was going to the APC to safeguard his business and the political apparatus he had established over the years.
He claimed that a particular bank informed him that he was politically exposed, which meant that he could not even go to the bank to borrow money since he was linked with the PDP.
Adewale stated that the people he backed in the last PDP elections had joined the ruling party and become commissioners and lawmakers.
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