The member representing Oriade/Obokun in the House of Representatives, Wole Oke, has predicted a huge electoral defeat for the People’s Democratic Party in the next election in the state.
Oke, who recently dumped the PDP, stated this while speaking on a radio station in Osogbo, Osun State capital on Thursday.
He said the current state political office holders from the two local government areas that make up the Federal Constituency don’t have the capacity to win elections for the PDP.
The federal lawmaker, who cited unfair treatment from the PDP and the refusal by the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, to fix critical infrastructure in the Federal Constituency made him to exit his former party, added that the project he initiated while thr PDP was controlling Federal Government had been stalled since the All Progressives Congress took over reign at the federal.
Asked to react to a claim that the PDP would not miss him, Oke said he had won five elections and only lost once, and predicted a crushing defeat for his former party in the Federal Constituency.
“I don’t argue with people on such issues. You wait until we conduct our next election. I will be able to give you statistics of what will happen in the next election.
“I give you, for example, the PDP will not get 500 votes out of close to 9,000 votes in Esa-Oke. Take that to the bank. I can also tell you the results in other places. In Ikeji Arakeji, Owenna, Dagbaja, Ipetu-Ijesa, mark my words, the PDP will struggle to get 1,000 votes if they are on the ballot. Write it down and if the statistics fail, I will quit politics,” Oke said.
He also said before leaving the PDP, he sought the opinion of his constituents, who approved his move, adding that, “I decided to leave the PDP. I was a member of the foundation.
“I contested and won elections back to back in the party but after making consultations with my people, with my constituents, in the last two weeks, I have had series of meetings to appraise the situation of our party at the state and national level, we came to the realisation that it is time to quit.”
