Kwara women leader dumps PDP for APC

Sulaiman is an associate of Gbemi Saraki who was elected the PDP women leader during the party’s state congress last year.  “I hereby announce my resignation as the Women Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State. This resignation is sequel to the defection of my leader, Sen. Gbemisola Rukayah Saraki from the […]

Sulaiman is an associate of Gbemi Saraki who was elected the PDP women leader during the party’s state congress last year.  
“I hereby announce my resignation as the Women Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State. This resignation is sequel to the defection of my leader, Sen. Gbemisola Rukayah Saraki from the PDP in Kwara State to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Since Sen. Gbemi Saraki instructed her supporters to vote massively for the APC in the state, I have come to the realisation that my membership of the PDP has become untenable.
“Therefore, in fidelity to her ideology and in solidarity with her political leadership, I Hon. Nimota Suleiman, this day, cease to be the state women leader and member of the PDP in Kwara State,” she said in her letter of resignation.
The women leader announced her resignation in a letter dated March 23, which she addressed to the State PDP Chairman, Chief Iyiola Oyedepo. But the chairman could not be reached as at the time of filing this report but a spokesman of PDP in the state, Mr. Femi Yusuf, denied knowledge of the women leader’s resignation.
Daily Trust reports that though Gbemi had not declared publicly that she had dumped the PDP, she told her supporters on Friday to vote for APC in Saturday’s presidential election.
All efforts to speak with Gbemi Saraki on her defection proved abortive as she refused to speak to the press on Saturday when she came to cast her vote at Ode Opobiyi polling unit.