Abeokuta - Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji
Bankole,has perfected plans to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) to the Labour Party (LP) .
His decision to dump the PDP follows his failure to clinch the governorship ticket of the party in Ogun state,
Bankole
had earlier indicated that he was going to join either the Labour Party
or the Social Democratic Party to protest his failure to get the
ticket.
As part of the planned defection, Bankole’s father , Alani Bankole
on Sunday, held a closed-door meeting with Ogun State leaders of LP
where he assured that Dimeji’s political structure would be collapsed
into LP’s own
At the meeting Bankole’s father assured the party
leaders that Dimeji would work for the victory of the party at the
coming governorship poll.
Present at the meeting were the state’s
Chairman of the party, Olabode Simeon, the secretary, Sunday Oginni,
governorship candidate of the party, Abolaji Sunmola, his campaign
Director- General, Abayomi Arabambi and other top leaders of the party
in the state