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“When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants”
– Emmanuel Macron, the President of France.
Last Thursday, February 25, 2021, I was one of the two panelists on Politics Nationwide, a network programme of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria. Mrs. Chinwe Nnorom, a director in the bureaucracy of the Peoples Democratic Party, and I were the two guests on the show. The topic of discussion was, “Regulating Defections from Political Parties”, anchored by Joy Makka. The programme moderator revealed that Nigeria has had a history of defection of party members from one political party to another right from the colonial era. In 1951, the first celebrated cross-carpeting episode occurred in Nigeria; which consequently robbed the leader of the National Convention of Nigerians and Cameroons, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the chance to lead the government’s business of Western Nigeria. This mea
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The Oyo State chapter of Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) and the former Gov Rashidi Ladoja’s group have finally collapsed their structures into the
The announcement was made on Tuesday after a stakeholders meeting at the ZLP secretariat in Ibadan.
Speaking, Kola Olaniyan, the state ZLP chairperson, said the meeting was to inform members of the decision to move into the APC.
“It is just to inform them that we are now moving to APC as a group.
“Our leaders have held meetings with the APC and we are still on the meeting. We know it is going to pay us better than where the promise and fail.
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Published 2 March 2021
The Oyo State chapter of Zenith Labour Party and the former Governor Rashidi Ladoja’s group have finally collapsed their structures into the All Progressives Congress.
The announcement was made on Tuesday after a stakeholder meeting at the ZLP secretariat in Ibadan.
Speaking, Mr Kola Olaniyan, the state ZLP Chairman said the meeting was to inform members of the decision to move into the APC.
“It is just to inform them that we are now moving to APC as a group.
“Our leaders have held meetings with the APC and we are still on the meeting. We know it is going to pay us better than where the promise and fail.
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The twist and turns in the Oyo State political landscape took another turn on Tuesday, as the entire existing structure of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) and Ladoja Political Group dissolved into the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State.
This resolution was reached at a stakeholders meeting of the Oyo State ZLP and Ladoja political group held at the ZLP’s office at Samonda, Ibadan.
A communiqué issued at the end of the meeting directed all members of the ZLP and Ladoja political group to partake in the ongoing membership registration exercise of the APC through the 351 wards of the 33 local government areas of the state.