APC/ADC: Senator Lanlehin Sets To Join New Party

Senator Lanlehin has perfected all plans to join All Progressive Party.

News Rain reports that the African Democratic Party governorship candidate at the 2019 elections in Oyo State, has officially announced the conclusion of his plans to dump the African Democratic Party (ADC),  for the All Progressive Congress Party (APC).

Recall that Senator Olufemi Lanlehin was a Senator representing Oyo South Senatorial District at the National Assembly between the years 2011 to 2015.

Sen. Lanlehin in a meeting that was held in his residence In Ibadan, the Capital City of Oyo State on Monday with some notable APC members in the State declared his intentions to join the Progressive Party.

The meeting which had in attendance the Oyo State Executive Committee of the ADC, led by Rev. Ezekiel Adeniran, some candidates of the party in the 2019 polls, and loyalists of the SOLAN brand.

Senator Lanlehin who have had series of reconciliatory meetings with some APC Chieftains, the National Reconciliation Committee of the party in Abuja,  noted that he still need to place measures to ensure that the Oyo State Chapter of the party is well reconciled before embarking on a mission to takes governance of the State.

Senator Lanlehin at the meeting stated that “The reconciliation process by the National Reconciliation Committee of the APC headed by His Excellency, Governor of Jigawa State, Alh. Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, supported by four other governors, including Ekiti State’s Governor Kayode Fayemi, is clearly succeeding in its given task,”

Lanlehin however promised his loyalists that were in attendance at the meeting which were drawn from all the 33 Local Government Areas of the State his unfailing desire to always prioritize the common man, noted that his decision to join the Progressive is of pro-people which remain the centerpiece in his agenda.

While assuring loyalists drawn from the 33 Local Government Areas of the state who had thronged his Adabeji residence for the meeting, Lanlehin reminded them of his unfailing desire to always prioritize the interest of the common man, and that in all the steps he has taken thus far, remaining pro-people has remained centerpiece.

The meeting which had in attendance some notable ADC politicians in the State, such as Rev. Ezekiel Adeniran, Chief E. O. Laoye, Hon. Bili Ajana, Yeye Yetunde Ajibola, Hon. Gaphar Ojetola, Hon. Habib Balogun, Alh. Muraina Kakako,

Also in attendance are Hon. Adedokun JP from Ibadan North, Alh. Suara Ogunyemi from Ibadan Northeast, Hon. Adeoye Sobaloju (Lord Moro), Ibadan Southwest, Otunba Bode Ashiru from Ibadan Southwest, Otunba Kunle Folarin, Afijio, Alhaja Omotunde Lawal from Egbeda, Hon. Tiri Olowoake, Oluyole, Hon. Adekunle Adeolu (Ultimate) Ido, Hon. Gbenga Aluko from Ibadan Southwest and Hon. Kayode Oladele from Ibadan North, Chief Sunday Ajadi (Abeebo) from Ogbomoso, Alh. Rafiu Afuku from Iseyin, Alh. Adebayo Waheed (Adwas) from Atisbo, Erelu Funke Olayanju, Ibarapa East, and Dr. Akintola, Ibarapa North.

Some speakers at the meeting eulogized Senator Lanlehin, for his unselfish and accommodating approach to politics, praying posterity to be kind to him.

Meanwhile, just before the conclusion of the meeting, the stakeholders at the meeting adopted the move by Sen. Lanlehin to return to the APC, and a motion for the eventual movement of Lanlehin and the entire structure of the Oyo State African Democratic Congress (ADC), en masse into the All Progressives Congress (APC) was subsequently moved, seconded and adopted, while no one, after calls for such, if any, raised objection.