The three Ogun State senators – Adegbenga Kaka (Ogun East), Akin Odunsi (Ogun West) and Gbenga Obadara (Ogun Central) – have formally submitted their letters of defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Kaka, chairman of the state caucus at the National Assembly, yesterday told reporters that the trio have delivered the letters to the leadership of the Senate through the Senate President, David Mark.
According to him, their decision to leave the party, followed the “fractionalisation in the party (APC) in Ogun State, leading to the emergence of parallel executives from ward, local government area to state levels”.
“Our protest, appeal and demand for justice from the national leadership of the party yielded no result; rather, the faction that flagrantly flouted the party’s guidelines was given recognition by the National Executive.
“We rightly believe in the legal aphorism that ‘you cannot build something on nothing and expect it to stand.
Kaka added: “We gave a very long rope. We felt that we cannot be looking for peace when the other party is not interested in peace.
“Our supporters are getting restless and the deadline for submission of forms is closing. We cannot continue to wait endlessly”.
On whether they could still reconsider their step, Kaka said that only God could make them to change their minds.
“We have waited for over two and half years to even have an interaction with the governor; the governor continued to avoid us”, Kaka stated.
“We have explored all channels to resolve the crisis without success. Maybe the leadership of the party thinks otherwise about us.
“The tendency for impunity and injustice led us to where we are today. A situation where three senators, seven House of Representatives members, the deputy governor, many members of the state House of Assembly and Chief Segun Osoba himself are considered to be nobody, who else will be somebody?”, he queried.
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