Ikimi Set To Dump APC For PDP

THERE are indications that the former Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief
Tom Ikimi, may soon dump the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the APC leader was said to have
shunned the caucus meeting of the party which took place in Abuja last
week.

Vanguard reported that Ikimi was invited for the caucus meeting as
well as that of the national leadership of the party with a view to
make him remain in the party.

It will be recalled that Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and
other leaders of the party in the state had begged Ikimi not to leave
the party after he condemned the processes that led to the emergence
of Chief John Odigie Oyegun as the National Chairman of APC.

Chief Ikimi had stayed away from all political activities of the APC
since the convention of the party. Vanguard reported that he was being
wooed by the top hierarchy of the PDP to join the party.
However, Ikimi who broke his silence to Vanguard, said he still does
not recognise Oyegun as the National Chairman of the party because of
what he described as the alleged undemocratic manner he emerged.

He said "I have decided to watch the party from afar because I believe
that things are not right. If we are talking about democracy and being
a credible alternative to the PDP, we must learn how to do things the
proper way. If Tinubu and others know that they don't own the party,
then we can now talk. There are still some fundamental issues that are
still unresolved.

"I don't mind working with anybody as national chairman of the party,
whether from Kogi or Kwara but what I am saying is that no one man
should arrogate himself as the owner of the party. That is why people
are leaving the party. And people are tolerating it because they don't
want to lose presidential or vice presidential tickets. The day they
lose those tickets, they will leave the party."