Oyo Politics: Senator Lanlehin leaves APC for Accord Party

 Penultimate Tuesday’s defection of Senator Olufemi Lanlehin from the All Progressives Congress, APC to Accord completely erases the foothold of the Oyo State chapter of the APC in the Senate. It only foretells some negative omens for the ruling party in the state.
By OLA AJAYI, IBADAN

THE defection of Senator Lanlehin was predicted from the first days of the Abiola Ajimobi administration. His cat and mouse relationship with Governor Ajimobi even preceded the 2011 election. Senator Lanehin had been hopeful of securing the governorship ticket of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN before the eleventh hour defection of Ajimobi from the All Nigeria Peoples Party.

Senator Rashidi Ladoja (with mic), assisted by Oyo State Accord Party chairman, Bashir Bola Lawal and others receiving Senator Olufemi Lanlehin, and others, who defected from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Accord Party, in Ibadan.

So, he obviously had reasons to be miffed as he controlled the largest number of followers among the contestants at that time. Besides, he was closer to the former state leader of the party, late Lamidi Adesina and was generally believed to be the preferred candidate of the former governor.

However, when pressure was mounted by some Ibadan elites on a national leader of the party based in Lagos, Lanlehin became a sacrificial lamb even though he was subsequently compensated with a Senate ticket.

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