A former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Segun Osoba, has given the strongest hint yet that he’ll soon be pitching tent with the political party of Bola Tinubu and Muhammadu Buhari.
In the build-up to the 2015 general elections, Osoba left the APC to co-found the SDP.
The SDP had a dismal showing in the general elections, even after adopting Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate for N100m.
Osoba has been seen in the company of APC chieftains lately and he told Punch Newspaper he’s seriously considering another defection.
“There is an ongoing discussion between us but there is no final decision yet. I believe that the good cause of the Yoruba and the nation will give us the grace to come to an amicable reconciliation,” he was quoted as saying.
Osoba also said he left the APC on good terms. He added that he’s always and will always remain a progressive at heart.
“These are parts of what we are discussing. We are discussing the implementation of our constitution. It has been a major issue and we are discussing it.
“There was nothing personal about the whole thing. There was nothing personal amongst us. It was only issues affecting progressivism. I am still a progressive; that is why I won’t go to the conservative rank under any circumstance.”
The SDP chieftain however declined comments on the N100m allegedly given to the National Chairman of the SDP, Chief Olu Falae, by a former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Tony Anenih.
The money was alleged to be part of the $2.1bn arms procurement fund diverted by former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, (retd.).
On what will be the fate of the SDP should his current talks with the APC become successful, Osoba said, “The SDP remains, because the party has elective members at all levels of legislation in the country. There are state assembly members and members of the House of Representatives.
“Virtually by law, the SDP remains a party. The Independent National Electoral Commission cannot deregister the SDP. But I don’t want to comment further on that.”
There goes another decampee, should we say?
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