Adeniran: PDP Has Been Purchased, Pocketed

Says defection to SDP is movement for new order Ogiadhome denies leaving party

Former Minister of Education, Professor Tunde Adeniran, last night, said the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been ‘purchased and pocketed’ by some members of the party and has therefore lost its place in decent party politics.

Ad en iran, who said this while justifying the defection of some members of the PDP, including himself to the Social Democratic Party(SDP), said theideabehind leaving PDP for the SDP was a movement for a new order in party politics.

In another breath, former President Good luck Jonathan’ s Chief of Staff, ChiefMike Ogiadhome, whose name was mentioned as one of those leaving the PDP for SDP has come out to deny the news, saying he had no link whatsoever with the idea.

Adeniran, who seemed to have had it full with the PDP, said the former ruling party was the architect of its own failure, and that the need for all lovers of democracy and its practice to come to the rescue of the nation was no longer debatable.

“We call it movement for a new order, because PDP has been purchased and pocketed by a few individuals in the party. If youproperly analysethe developments in the PDP, you would agree that the PDP was the architect of its own failure ,” he explained. Adeniran, however, contended that SDP would give their followers the opportunity to actualise their political ambitions with strict observance of internal democracy. He claimed the SDP was not a party that has been irredeemably committed to the banditry that has led the nation to where it is.