Director General of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Erelu Kemi Elebute-Hally, along with some national leaders of the defunct Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), have officially collapsed their structures into the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
During a reception for the defectors at the APC National Secretariat on Thursday in Abuja, APC National Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, assured the leaders of equal opportunities within the party.
Ganduje noted the significance of the defection, highlighting the incorporation of over 7,000 ADP members from Ekiti State and thousands of others nationwide. He emphasized that Elebute-Hally’s experience as a former Governorship candidate in Ekiti State would be invaluable.
Elebute-Hally explained that her decision to join the APC was driven by a recognition of the need to support the ongoing reforms of President Bola Tinubu, which she acknowledged may be painful in the short term but would ultimately lead to positive outcomes. “We have been on this matter and deliberated for two years, writing to our various parties that we were going to defect, which we did on October 7 this year,” she stated.
She further revealed that this defection includes chieftains from the ADP, Social Democratic Party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the PPA.
Additionally, a former Deputy National Chairman, North, of the PPA, Mohammed Inua Haruna, remarked that although the national chairman of his party had joined another party, the national and state structures remained intact and had tasked him with finding a suitable party for them.