BY DAYO JOHNSON
AKURE—SENATOR Ajayi Boroffice formerly of the ruling Labour Party in Ondo State yesterday gave the need to be properly integrated into Yoruba politics as reason for dumping the ruling party for the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria ACN.

Addressing newsmen at his Oka Akoko residence before his official defection, Boroffice who described the decision to dump the LP as painful however said that he had to leave as a result of intractable crisis in the party.

Boroffice who was rumoured to be interested in the 2013 governorship election said that he decided to pitch his tent with ”another political party that is focused, dynamic and a party that adhere to all the tenets of democracy rather than clinch to a party in disarray.”

According to him “my decision to move to ACN are hinged on the fact that I cannot continue to belong to a party that has been factionalised along various interest; under the present administration, leaders of the party have been sidelined.

”We need to harness the wisdom of our elders, the progenitors of progressive politics and combine it with the energy and vision of the present Yoruba leadership to transform our geo-political zone to a modern society.

But in a swift reaction, The leaders of the LP including the chairman, Chief Olumide Ogidan, the deputy governor of the state, Alhaji Alli Olanusi, the commissioner for women affairs and social development Yinka Alabi and her counterpart in the ministry of Agriculture, Mr. Ademola Olorunfemi described his allegation of factionalisation as false.

Speaking at the end of the year party of the LP in Akoko, the deputy governor said the party had in the last three years implemented programmes that had positively impacted on the lives of the people.

According to Olanusi, it was wrong for anyone to give an erroneous impression that there was crisis or factions in the party, saying the LP in Ondo State remained as united as ever.

Ogidan said the decision of Boroffice to leave the party was a welcome development. The LP chairman stated that the party would not be distracted from delivering the dividends of democracy to the people as the Dr. Olusegun Mimiko-led administration had touched their lives, particularly at the grassroot level.

He said the people of the state, particularly the Akoko region had always been supporting the state government based on the unprecedented development witnessed in the last three years.