Former Speaker Patricia Etteh defects to APC

Olubunmi Etteh

Hehehe..So this woman still dey ? A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, yesterday dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for the All progressive Congress, APC with thousands of her supporters in Irewole, Ayedaade and Isokan Federal constituency in Osun State.

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The former Speaker said her leaving PDP was long overdue.
She made her defection announcement in a rally led by the governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.
Etteh told the crowd that gathered at the rally that she decided to join the APC because of the party’s progressive policies and the love for the masses, saying that her decision was to join the progressives so that she will be able to contribute her quota to the development of the people.
She commended Governor Aregbesola for the positive change his administration has brought to the state since he took over as the governor of the state, adding that the transformation of the state under APC was glaring for all to see.
Aregbesola, while admitting the former Speaker and her supporters in Ikoyi, Apomu, Ikire, Araromi Owu, Orile Owu and Gbongan‎, enjoined voters in the local government areas and the whole state to vote for all the candidates of APC across board.
He emphasised that the victory of August 9 governorship election in the state would be boosted with the party securing all the seats available both in upper, lower and the state legislative chambers, adding that change can only come when the APC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari comes to power by May 29 this year.
He said: “February 14 and 28 elections are significant for the change that Nigerians have been clamouring for, we need not say much. Our good work has been speaking for us, we plan do more than what we have done in the last four years.
“We can only do more with your support by voting all our party members in the forthcoming elections. I also want to use this opportunity to thank you for standing behind us during the last August 9 governorship election.
“We are here again to ask for your votes for our presidential candidate and every other candidate in your Federal constituency. We must show to the world that Osun is completely APC,” The governor emphasised
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He noted that for sixteen odd years under the Peoples Democratic Party, Nigeria has not gained anything meaningful and enduring.
According to him, “Our experience was a bad one with the federal government when we joyfully approached the President with the free offer of train coaches to the state from the Chinese government.
“The offer was given to us shortly after we came into office. Till date, the President failed to even acknowledge the application. All these will stop when the APC comes into power this year.”
He charged the people to go all out to collect their permanent voter cards at the INEC designated collection centres for them to be able to vote for change.