The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Ondo state has come out to react to the exit of the deputy governor and governorship aspirant of the party, Hon Agboola Ajayi.

Its Publicity Secretary, Kennedy lkantu Peretei recently had his say in Akure after the latest development.

According to PDP, Hon Agboola Ajayi quitting has zero effect on the party and he will not be missed.

He added that even if the party is yet to receive his letter of resignation, PDP wishes him well in his political journey.

His words, ”Agboola Ajayi’ exit from the PDP has no effect on our prospects of victory in the Guber elections.”

”The Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State has received the exit of Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi from the Party, from just online publications.”

“As a party, we are have not received his letter of resignation but we wish him well in his political journey.

”Agboola Ajayi joined our party on 22nd June 2020 and participated at the Governorship Primaries having received waiver from the National Secretariat of the Party.

“He has abused the welcome and privilege accorded him by our party supporters during his brief stay in the party.

“He also proved that he is desperate to become the Governor of Ondo State. In the days to come, it will dawn on him that, he has squandered whatever was remaining in his goodwill with this decision.

“However, his exit from the PDP will not affect our prospects of winning the October Gubernatorial Elections.”

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The People’s Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with its main rival, the All Progressives Congress.

Its policies generally lie towards the centre-right of the political spectrum. It won every Presidential election between 1999 and 2011, and was until the 2015 elections, the governing party in the Fourth Republic although in some cases, amid a few controversial electoral circumstances.

In 1998, the PDP in its first presidential primary election held in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria nominated former military leader Olusegun Obasanjo who had just been released from detention as political prisoner as the presidential candidate in the elections of February 1999, with Atiku Abubakar (Governor-Elect of Adamawa State and a former leading member of the Social Democratic Party) as his running mate. They won the presidential election and were inaugurated 29 May 1999.

The longtime slogan of the People’s Democratic Party has been “Power to the people”. During the party’s National Convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on 21 May 2016, David Mark, a former President of the Senate of Nigeria, introduced “Change the change” as the party’s campaign slogan for the 2019 general elections.