Why Another PDP Chieftain Is Set To Dump The Party

A founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Ibrahim Babatunde Olorogun-Etti, will formally dump the party next week, Naij.com can authoritatively reveal.

Some loyalists of Olorogun-Etti told our correspondent that his decision to leave the party resulted from irreconcilable differences between him and Chief Bode George, another chieftain of the party over the running of the party in Lagos State.

Olorogun-Etti and George had been long-standing friends, but their friendship soon began to wane after the general election which saw the party heavily defeated.

A supremacy battle in the Lagos chapter between two factions, one of which is being led by George, further strained the relationship between the duo as the battle resulted in the sack of Captain Tunji Shelle as the party’s chairman in the state few weeks ago.

A national leader of the PDP, Chief Bode George

Irked by this alleged plot by George to continue to hold the party in the state on its jugular, Olorogun-Etti on Friday asked his supporters to begin to prepare to dump the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress.

When contacted, Olorogun-Etti confirmed he had made up his mind to leave the party cited in-fighting, irreconcilable differences with the leadership of the Lagos PDP, as well as the overbearing influence of Bode George on the party.

He said above all, he was not comfortable with the PDP’s woeful performance at the 2015 poll.

He also confirmed that he would be joining the APC with his supporters next week.

Meanwhile, the newly appointed acting chairman of the Lagos state chapter of the PDP, Kamaldeen Olorunoje, has admonished  Chief Bode George to stop covering up for the inadequacies of Captain Tunji Shelle, who was unceremoniously removed from office as the party chairman recently.