Prior to the 2023 general election, a fervent supporter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the state, Kayode Ogunlowo, the minister of information and culture, has disclosed that he is doing so.
A former Senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki, welcomed Ogunlowo, a previous member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to his home in Ilorin’s Broadway GRA on Wednesday.
As soon as images from the event spread around the state, political circles in Kwara were stirred by the development.
Ogunlowo, however, said that after choosing the PDP ticket, he made the decision to work for Alhaji Shuaib Yamman in an interview with Daily Trust.
The PDP is the only powerful party that can compete with the APC because of how split it is, he claimed, adding that he had not abandoned Lai Mohammed.
“I didn’t leave Alhaji Lai Mohammed for Saraki. He is my leader and remains my leader. But the situation in Kwara now is different.
“What prompted my move, among others, was that Yamman had been somebody I had worked with while we were in APC and I was surprised that he got the ticket against our expectation. That showed that things have changed with Saraki. And then he, Yamman, invited me to come and work with him.”
“The calculation on ground now is that APC is divided and PDP is the only party that has the structure to compete against it, unlike the SDP, which is even still having its own troubles and struggles,” he said.
