Former PDP Chieftain Reveals Why He Joined APC Is To Spearhead Tinubu’s 2023 Presidential Ambition

Mutiu Kunle Okunola

The former organizing secretary of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, Mutiu Kunle Okunola, said that he defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to throw his weight behind Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the national leader of the ruling party, in his alleged bid to become Nigeria's president come 2023.

Okunola who officially joined the APC on Wednesday, June 19, boasted that the PDP has no future in the state, adding that Lagos is now owned by one party, Daily Trust reports.

The former PDP bigwig, claimed that his defection means downfall to the PDP, saying that the “PDP is now in the cooler”.

The former PDP chieftain said that he is willing “to give Tinubu the support he needs if he desires to contest the 2023 presidency”.

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Okunola said: “So I decamped not for any other thing but because of Tinubu so that I can put my strength to make the 2023 project for Tinubu a reality. I believe it is only Tinubu that has the capacity in the south-west to rule the country.”