***Aides, allies disown, call him traitor, say they’re not leaving PDP
Barely two weeks after his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), crisis has enveloped the political camp of the member of the House of Representatives for Obokun/Oriade federal constituency of Osun State, Oluwole Oke.
His defection to the APC is eliciting resistance from his close circles and constituency, with many outrightly rejecting the move.
Oke’s key allies who he groomed into politics and government positions are said to have rejected his call on them to join him to defect to the APC.
A source said that in the last few days, key aides and allies of the lawmaker have rejected his movement to the APC, describing it as a political tragedy.
“With the way he betrayed PDP, Oluwole Oke is like the proverbial Leopard that can never change the spots on its body. He will also betray the APC. We are staying back in PDP while severing political links with him”, one of his allies, Bamidele Johnson said.
Some of his other allies were said to have openly declared that the defection marks a political waterloo for the 6th term legislator.
For instance, some of Oke’s allies in his Local Government scorned his move as “a decision borne out of greed and selfishness.”
One of them described him as “an ingrate who betrayed a party on whose platform he got married in life as a lawmaker and on whose platform he gained all his material riches.”
