Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, on Saturday expressed delight at the mass defection of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), members to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
He said the fact that the event held in a day the president and leader of the nation’s ruling party, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, was still in Lagos on a visit, was a sign that the party had failed.
The defectors, who were led by a one-time chieftain of the PDP in the state, Dr Abayomi Finnih, were received at the Acme Road secretariat of APC in a colourful ceremony.
While welcoming the new members, Fashola described the defection as a landmark which showed that the PDP was heading for doom in 2015.
According to him, “When you see former governors, national office holders and so on and so forth leaving in droves even when the leader of the party is in town, it is a great coincidence, but it is also a sign that the giant is beginning to fall.
“For me, it is interesting that a party loses five governors without going to an election. It is worth the Guinness Book of Records. And it will interest you that things are no longer well in that party.
“They lose governors, they lose senators and without going to an election they lose leaders of the House.”
Commenting on the 2015 elections in Lagos vis-à-vis the PDP, Fashola boasted, “They are our opponents and we will continue to defeat them in elections in which a fair contest is made possible”.
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