“Don’t Dump APC,” Lai Mohammed Begs Defectors

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has appealed to members of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Kwara State who were desperate to defect to other political parties not to leave APC.

The Kwara-born minister made this appeal in a statement recently, urging the disgruntled members to stay back and have their grievances addressed ahead of the 2023 elections.

The statement read in part: “My attention has been drawn to media reports on the alleged defection of some of my supporters in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara to the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

“I wish to state categorically that despite the fact that the supporters are genuinely aggrieved at the way and manner they have been treated by the Kwara State Governor and his supporters, against the backdrop of their immeasurable contributions to the massive victory of our party in the state in 2019, leaving the party is not the solution,” the minister acknowledged.”

He said: “We have taken the grievances of our supporters to the highest level of our party, and we have cause to believe that everything will be done to address the grievances and unite the party ahead of the 2023 elections.”

He, thereafter, patted the defectors, saying: “I am therefore appealing to those who may have left to reconsider their stand and return to their natural habitat.”

He pleaded: “I want to use this opportunity to once again call on the leadership of our party to urgently and decisively address the issues that have forced some members of our party in Kwara to contemplate leaving the party.”