The Social Democratic Party has has today Wednesday collapsed her structure to Action Alliance ahead of the Osun council election. Panafric Reporters learnt that leaders and members of SDP dumped the party Action Alliance (AA) early hour of Wednesday.
Led by the state secretary of the SDP, Comrade Yinka Oni, The defectors who were until recently executive members of the party at ward, local government and state levels were led by the party state secretary, Comr. Yinka Oni, declaring their declared their loyalty to their new bride- Action Alliance (AA).
This is even as the state chapter of the SDP gave its office to the AA and turned the structure of the party to that of the party (AA).
Pan Afric Reporters via a correspondence make available to them by the party publicity secretary, Sunday Oyedele via WhatsApp learnt that the party state secretariat located at Ogo Oluwa area of Osogbo, the state capital has been converted to Action Alliance state secretariat by former executives who decamped today.
The leader of the defectors,Comr. Yinka Oni said the decision to leave the party alongside other leaders of the party in the state was as a result of the belief of the defectors in the leadership of the AA.
Oni further noted that SDP is dead in the state with the defection, adding that those who made the party functional have all left for the AA with their teeming supporters spread across all 30 Local Government Areas of the state.
Receiving the defectors at the new secretariat of the AA, the national chairman of the party, Hon Adekunle Rufai Omoaje assured the defectors of equal opportunity with the old members of the party.
Omoaje who was flanked by the National Vice Chairman (South West) of the party, Hon Joshua Adewole declared that the party would participate actively in all future elections both in the state and at national levels.
He urged those interested in contesting for various positions in the upcoming local government election in the state not to hesitate in declaring open their ambition.
At the meeting, the party announced the formation of caretaker management committee to take over the affairs of the party and paddle its activities in the state pending the congress of the party.
The members of the caretaker management committee include Mr Kazeem Araoye (Chairman), Femi Johnson (Deputy Chairman), Yinka Oni (Secretary), Akorede Funmilayo (Women Leader), Sunday Oyedele, (Publicity Secretary), Tunde Salako (Organizing Secretary), Oyelami Adeyemi (Treasurer), Kunle Akinbiyi (Financial Secretary) and Azeez Kehinde (Welfare Officer).