‘PDP national leaders messed up party’

Ondo State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Ali Olanusi, has blamed the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party for his defection to the All Progressives Congress. Olanusi declared his defection to the APC on Thursday, citing marginalisation and unfairness on the part of the PDP. He told reporters in his polling unit at Supare, in the Akoko South West of Ondo State, that the party was “messed up” by its leaders at all levels. According to him, he had to leave the party for good in the interest of his people. He said, “The PDP has been messed up by the National Working Committee and the party executive. This made it difficult for me to remain there.” On the elections, he said he hoped that INEC would do a good job, even though it was too early to judge the situation then.