By Dapo Akinrefon

FOLLOWING the defection of former governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala and Senator Teslim Folarin and others to the All Progressives Congress, APC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, told the defectors to expect the worst from the APC saying the party has used and later damaged many bigwigs that helped them in the past.

APC & PDP

The PDP, in a statement by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Prince Diran Odeyemi, declared that both Akala and Folarin would have realised their full potentials as politicians if they had remained in PDP.

The party said: “It is a political miscalculation if our respected leaders are going to where they do not belong and cannot learn from the experiences of former governor Rasheed Ladoja, Professor Taoheed Adedoja and other APC big wigs in Oyo State who recently retraced their ways to PDP after being used and dumped by  APC.”

The party noted that “Going by the experiences of many political heavyweights that have left its fold to join APC in the past, Akala and Folarin’s decision to join the party was nothing but a misstep, especially now that majority of Nigerians are waiting on the party to rescue them from the national calamity that befalls the nation owing to lack of capacity by the Federal Government to deal with myriads of challenges facing the country.”

The party maintained that many politicians who left PDP for APC before the 2015 general elections are not only regretting their actions presently, because the party demeaned them after riding on their support to secure power, but that those still remaining in their fold are never considered as stakeholders in the APC- led Federal Government.

Describing Akala and Folarin as PDP gifts to Nigeria, the party declared that the two politicians have all to lose, and nothing to gain from the fast sinking ship of APC, adding that they can not enjoy the kind of influence and privileges they had in PDP because “APC is good at celebrating decamps and master in dumping them after the ceremony.”