Osun Deputy Governor’s brother joins PDP

Sunday Laoye, the elder brother of the Osun State Deputy Governor, Titi Laoye-Tomori, has dumped the All Progressives Congress for the Peoples Democratic Party.
Laoye, who formally declared his allegiance to the PDP on Wednesday at the party’s secretariat, said he left the APC because he was “used and dumped”.
Laoye was a chieftain of the APC in Osun State, where his sister emerged as the deputy governor of the state.
Laoye said he had consultations with God and his supporters before he made the decision to retrace his steps back to the PDP.
He described the PDP as a party that was ready to welcome everybody without discrimination, adding that he had known the PDP governorship candidate as a man of ideas.
He said: “I am ready to work for the success of the PDP.
“I will go back to political trenches across the 332 wards in Osun to ensure the victory of the PDP in the Augusut 9, 2014 election.”
Alhaji Gani OlaOluwa, the Chairman of the PDP in Osun State, said the decision of Laoye was good for the PDP in the state.
OlaOluwa described Laoye as “a big catch that will throw the opposition party into disarray”.
The PDP chairman said Laoye and his followers would not be treated like freshers.
He said the party would continue to spread its net to ensure that all true democrats returned to the PDP before the governorship election.
A former National Vice Chairman, South West of the PDP, Alhaji Tajudeen Oladipo, said the return of Laoye to the PDP family was an indication of greater things to happen in Osun State.
Meanwhile, the APC in Osun State, through its Publicity Secretary, Kunle Oyatomi, described the defection as usual in a democracy.
Oyatomi in a statement made available to newsmen, said it was not compulsory that all members of a family should belong to the same political party.