DEFECTION of the former Oyo State governor, Dr. Victor Omololu Olunloyo, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), has been described by the immediate past governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, as an inheritance of political liability.

Describing Olunloyo, who was a member of the Elders Council of the PDP during his administration as somebody with no electoral value, Alao-Akala said Olunloyo's recent defection at the Ibadan South-West Local Government Secretariat to the ACN was another demonstration of his  nature. 

Alao-Akala reacted to the development in a chat with journalists at his Ogbomoso residence during his annual Christmas party, where a large number of party supporters, including former Sports Minister, Professor Taoheed Adedoja, were present.

He described anybody defecting from the PDP to any party as a political jobber and parasite, always looking for where to suck. 

He said: “Those defecting are political jobbers. Take a look at the pedigree of such people and you will be able to determine their substance. They are parasites. They just always want to hold on to something. Anybody who thinks those people matter is just making a mistake.

“For Olunloyo, I ask, who is Olunloyo? Olunloyo is just somebody who does not have a pedigree. His problem is that he is consistently inconsistent. He is not a politician. What is his electoral value? He has no electoral value. If he has decamped, let him show us his followers. 

“Who will follow him to ACN? Can he command any followership? At the beginning of our government, we only accommodated him. Successive governments have been accommodating him because he was a former governor. I am an ex- governor and so I deserve such privilege also. He has never been a member of the PDP. He is not a card-carrying member,” Alao-Akala stressed.

Reminded that Olunloyo was a member of the Elders' Council of the party while Alao-Akala was in office, he insisted that he was brought in because all the past governors were accommodated, adding: “That was because we brought all the past governors together.

That was why he was given the privilege. He is not significant as far as I am concerned. If Alao-Akala should decamp to another party now, you can imagine how many people will move with him compared with that of Olunloyo you talked about. So, that cannot move us a bit. We are still together in the PDP. We are everywhere across the state and by the grace of God, we are going to make it in the end,” the former governor remarked.

He denied allegation of calling for the dissolution of the legally-constituted PDP State Executive Council, stressing that he only went to the National Headquarters of the party in Abuja to notify them of what they have to do about Oyo State.

“It is not true. I didn't petition the National Headquarters. I know Oyo PDP very well and I know our problems and so, I went there to offer them solution about the problems of Oyo State and that is exactly what they are now pursuing to ensure that we are one. And by the grace of God, in the new year, we shall become one.

“At every level, we have leaders we respect. It starts from the ward, local to state level. At every respective area, everything is now in harmony. We don't lord anything over anybody. At Ogbomoso for example, we let our members decide what they want. Even in Ibadan, they tell us what they want. Same applies to people in Oyo and the people of Oke Ogun. With that, we respect one another, and by so doing, we can move the party forward,” he further explained.