By Ola Ajayi

IBADAN—One of the senators who left the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Oyo State, Senator Olufemi Lanlehin has said his defection to the Accord Party was occasioned by alleged unfounded suspicion of Governor Abiola Ajimobi that he wanted to contest the governorship election with him in 2015 election.

Lanlehin, who spoke with newsmen yesterday in his Inalende Senatorial office in Ibadan said since the governor assumed the mantle of leadership over three years ago, the relationship between them was not politically cordial.

But reacting on behalf of the governor, the state APC Chairman, Chief Akin Oke; “Do they want to run the affairs of government together. If he is honest, he should be specific as to what area did the governor reject his advice. What is worrying most of them is personal ambition to be the governor rather than giving excuses.

”Again, they are afraid about their second term would be at stake because they have written the governor off that he would not make the second term. They are stretching their luck too much forgetting that it is God that gives power to man. I am sure that the governor will break the jinx this time around.”

However, Lanlehin claimed Governor Ajimobi’s refusal to carry other party members along in most of the policies forced him and others out of APC.

Now a chieftain of Accord, he said he was aware that as the governor, he reserved the right to take decisions, but not the one that would be injurious to the image of the party.

“I complained so many times before and after the death of Alhaji Lam Adesina that the people are not happy about how the party is being pocketed and run like a private business. I told him that a lot ot people who did not participate in the victory of the party are the ones determining the

policies of the party, but he did not listen to me”, he said.

Lanlehin who was flanked by his loyalists like Nureni Adisa, Lekan Ladipo, Remi Ige and Pastor Wale Adepoju, noted that the reports of the recently concluded National Conference was at the mercy of President Goodluck Jonathan adding that what would happen to the reports depended on what the president feels about it.