Aggrieved chairmanship aspirant of the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, Fouad Oki, has received an invitation to join the People\u2019s Democratic Party in the state, reports The Gazelle News.<\/p>\n
This happened barely 24 hours after the APC Congress which produced Pastor Cornelius Oyefolu Ojelabi as the state Chairman, <\/span><\/p>\n Oki it was gathered, rejected the proposal saying he would not leave the APC unless, its doors are shut against him like the party did during the last Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n The online news medium revealed that after the APC State Congress which took place on Sunday, 17 October, 2021, a delegation from PDP Leader in Lagos, Chief Bode George visited Oki at his Surulere home.<\/span><\/p>\n The delegation comprised of eight prominent members of the PDP in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n It was gathered that members of the delegation told Oki of the desire of George and other PDP members to have him in their fold and join them in what they describe as the struggle for liberation of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n Oki however was reportedly adamant in telling them that the thought of joining PDP has not even crossed his mind not to talk of giving it any consideration.<\/span><\/p>\n He stated that he would remain a member of APC until the party closed its doors against him and his supporters or pushed them out.<\/span><\/p>\n He reportedly told his visitors that he is exploring all peaceful means available to get redress for the injustice done to him within the jurisdiction of the party.<\/span><\/p>\n It will be recalled that Oki, a Chairmanship aspirant of the party, was prevented from entering the venue of the state Congress on Saturday, 16 October, 2021 by security agents who claimed he was not an accredited delegate for the Congress. <\/span><\/p>\n This is after he had duly purchased, filled and submitted his nomination form for the contest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aggrieved chairmanship aspirant of the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, Fouad Oki, has received an invitation to join the People\u2019s Democratic Party in the state, reports The Gazelle News. This happened barely 24 hours after the APC Congress which produced Pastor Cornelius Oyefolu Ojelabi as the state Chairman, Oki it was gathered, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3376,2722,845,110],"class_list":["post-5545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc-congress","tag-bode-george","tag-fouad-oki","tag-pdp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5547,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions\/5547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}