Chairman of All Progressive Congress, Lagos State chapter, Chief Henry Ajomale has liken Ex-minister of state for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro to the biblical prodigal son.
At the same time, he confirmed that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP chieftain has defected to the ruling party.
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The comparison and confirmation were contained in an interview Ajomale granted The Sun wherein the chairman hinted that the former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, was about journey APC.
When asked about his reaction to Obanikoro’s defection to APC, Ajomale said, “I’m not surprised at Obanikoro’s defection to APC. You know he was one of us before he decamped to PDP. When we were in the defunct Alliance for Democracy, AD, he was with us. He benefitted a lot from the party because Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu loved him – Tinubu made him a commissioner in his cabinet when he was governor of Lagos State and later Obanikoro was also given senatorial ticket by AD and that was how he became a senator on the platform of AD – but suddenly for reason best known to him, he decamped to PDP.
“But all along nobody took offence to his action because we all knew that Obanikoro will one day come back. Obanikoro is like the prodigal son in the Bible who bite the fingers that fed him, but just like the biblical prodigal son was forgiven by his father, we have also forgiven Obanikoro – that’s to tell Nigerians that Asiwaju Tinubu has a large heart. Tinubu is very accommodating.
“With what Obanikoro did to AD, ACN and later APC when he was in PDP some would have thought Tinubu and other APC leaders would not forgive Obanikoro, but Tinubu doesn’t bear grudges. He forgives easily. He is not an autocrat or a dictator that some people portray him to be. With Obanikoro now in APC, the next big fish we are expecting in APC is Chief Bode George. He is coming to join us very soon, to join APC in helping to transform Lagos State into Dubai of Africa… it is not a joke, Bode George will soon follow Obanikoro to APC and we are waiting to receive him into APC fold.”
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