Mohammed Dele Belgore, governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria in the central Nigerian state of Kwara, in the 2011 election, has left the party, now part of the new coalition that formed the All Progressives Congress.
Belgore, a senior advocate of Nigeria, declared for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party,PDP today.
He joined active politics in 2010 and emerged the gubernatorial candidate of the ACN. He was picked by the party’s hierachy over Architect Lola Ashiru, a financier of ACN in the state.
The politician,amid his supporters, announced his defection from APC to the PDP at his campaign office along AbdulRasaq Road ,GRA, Ilorin,saying he decided to leave the APC because of the party leadership’s decision to team up with “oppressors”
Though Belgore was silent on his governorship ambition, earlier speakers repeatedly referred to him as the next governor of the state.
Belgore said his defection became necessary because the leadership of APC has let him and his supporters down by the way and manner they handled the defection of members of PDP to APC in kwara state.
He said his declaration was symbolic because people have waited with baited breath,” for us to make a pronouncement on our political future”. “The expectations and the anxieties are understandable, given the happenings in the APC which we laboured so hard to nurture to a party of choice in Kwara from its ACN days,”he added.
He noted that hope had risen that with the birth of APC, “our struggle for socio- economic development of our dear state which we began in 2010, would be better served under a stronger and broader political platform”, lamenting that the hope suddenly evaporated very quickly. He said it was sad that an alliance of those who yearn for change and development and those who desire to maintain the status quo of oppression and denial of opportunity was suddenly foisted upon us.
Other notable defectors to the PDP in the state were Senator Gbemisola Saraki and businessman, Abdulrahman Abdulrazak, who contested for the governorship position in 2011, using the platform of the CPC, also now part of APC.
via nigerianeye
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