Mr. Dele Belgore (SAN), Action Congress of Nigeria’s governorship candidate in Kwara State during the 2011 election explains his latest controversial defection to the Peoples Democratic Party in this interview withSUCCESS NWOGU
With the Freedom Rally recently held in Ilorin, it seems you have now agreed that the PDP is a party that puts people in bondage since the party has been in the power for some years now in Kwara State?
No. We have said repeatedly that our issue lies with the way the government of the state was then being run. It is the people at the helm of affairs and their methods that we were complaining about. Those methods have not changed since they joined the APC. That tells you that the issue in Kwara is about the people at the helm of affairs and not necessarily the party.
They call themselves progressives now. But you do not become a progressive simply because you change your party. So it has been the same system and that is the point we have been making.
You once said you were going to free the people of Kwara from PDP’s bondage. Now that you have gone to the PDP, how do you explain that?
We should not take statements out of context. Let us situate them properly. Statements like that, again were meant or targeted at the way things were run and are being run. They are run essentially by the same group of people. So it is bondage, away from the status quo, from the politics of deprivation, the politics of selfishness and the politics that perpetually keeps our people down. That is what we have complained about and that is what the issue is.
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