I’m Under Pressure From PDP, APC to Dump LP – Opeyemi Bamidele
Labour Party governorship candidate in
June 21 gubernatorial election in Ekiti State, Michael Bamidele, has
said that he is under pressure from both the Peoples
Democratic Party
(PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to leave his party and
join either of the two parties.
Bamidele, a member of the House of
Representatives is representing Ekiti Central 1 at the National Assembly
and came third in the election which the candidate of the PDP, Mr. Ayo
Fayose, won.
Speaking with newsmen on Monday at his
Iyin Ekiti country home, Bamidele said his party has also set up an
11-man committee to negotiate with any political party making overtures
to the party for a working relationship.
Bamidele defected to the LP last year
September following irreconcilable differences with Governor Kayode
Fayemi and leaders of the APC.
Speaking on the planned defection of
Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State to the PDP from LP, Bamidele said
the governor still remains a member of the party adding that Mimiko’s
defection would in no way affect the party in Ekiti or at the national
level.
“As a patriot and statesman, I am ready
to work with whoever that is elected in the overriding interest of the
people,” he said while confirming that Fayose has indicated interest to
work with him and his party. Bamidele said he would vie for political
position in 2015, but he refused to disclose what political office he
would be vying for and on which platform.
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