EXCLUSIVE - Gbenga Daniel Set to Join APC

A former Governor of Ogun State and Director General of Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Gbenga Daniel, has joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying his political supporters have pleaded with him to lead them to the ruling party.

The alleged plea came barely 24 hours after Daniel announced his resignation from partisan politics, even as hundreds of his political supporters have called upon him to rescind the decision.

The supporters cut across all the local governments in Ogun State.

Daniel had announced his intention to retire from partisan politics in a letter to the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus.

Daniel’s supporters, who converged on his Asoludero residence in Sagamu GRA, held a stormy meeting with him yesterday, during which they urged him to lead them to the APC, instead of abandoning them in what they called ‘political wilderness.’

Daniel’s loyalists anchored their demands on the fact that they had worked with him towards the emergence of the Ogun State Governor-elect, Dapo Abiodun, of the APC.

The ex-governor had convened a stakeholders’ meeting of his loyalists under the aegis of OGD Political Family to formally address them and announce his exit from partisan politics.

But hundreds of members of his OGD political family in the state who thronged the venue of the meeting expressed their displeasure with his retirement.

via thisday