About? 10,000 former members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who joined the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) shortly before the last general elections have formally declared for the ACN.
Speaking? on behalf of the detectors, hundreds of whom stormed the Governor’s Office, Secretariat, Ibadan yesterday, the state Commissioner for Water Resources, Mr. Sunmbo Owolabi, said that contrary to media reports that they had returned to the PDP, the people were still with the party.
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He added that? before the elections, some of the groups hitherto in the PDP and led by the present Oodua Investment boss, Mr. Sarafadeen Alli, and the current commissioner for works in Oyo State, Alhaji Yunus Akintunde, moved en-masse to the ACN but had not formally made their entrance to the party known.
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He said that contrary to media reports that their groups had returned to the PDP, they were still in the ACN as the party was a party of the progressives and “progressivism is the ideology of the people of the South Western Nigeria.”