Osun SSG Resigns, Joins ADP

The Secretary to Osun Government, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti has resigned his appointment and defected to the Action Democratic Party.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Adeoti was one of the 17 All Progressives Congress aspirants in the July 19 primary conducted by the party.

Adeoti, who revealed his withdrawal a day before the primary, eventually scored 128 votes.

However, in a letter addressed to Abdul’aziz Yari, the Chairman of APC Primaries Committee and governor of Zamfara, Adeoti alleged that he was withdrawing because the primary had been skewed to favour Gboyega Oyetola, the Chief of Staff to Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

Also, in his acceptance speech after a primary held at the ADP Secretariat on Monday in Osogbo, Adeoti urged the party members to support him in winning the Sept. 22 governorship election.

Adeoti noted that he was committed to executing the ADP ideals as contained in its manifest He also stated that he had acquired experience as a “grassroots politicians who had passed through virtually all stages of political leadership as councillor, local government supervisor and party administrator and later Secretary to State Government”.

He added: “I present a sober, deep and solid experience critically needed to lead a people-centred and masses-oriented administration as the governor of Osun State.”

Dozie Ike, the ADP Electoral Committee Chairman, urged all members of the party to support Adeoti to win the election in his speech.

Also speaking, Lynn Olisa, the Secretary of the Electoral Committee, stated that 13, 400 party members were accredited for the primary while 13,367 voted.

Olisa said Adeoti, the only aspirant of the party, scored 13,324 votes, adding that 43 votes were voided.