Former Chairman, Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Smart Adeyemi, has formally dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and picked the registration card of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a brief ceremony held in his Iyara ward, Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State, the Senator said he was joining the APC to enable him serve his people better.
He added that he had utilised the mandate given to him in the past to better the lots of the people, adding that he was hoping that those coming after him would follow the same footsteps.
The Senator, who got the Card number 14542741, said he needs to be in the APC so that he can directly talk to the people in government without a sense of enmity.
“I need to be in the APC so that we can jointly with Hon Faleke and my brothers work for the betterment of our people. When I talk to the people in goverbment about the deprivation of our area as a member of the APC, they will not see me s an enemy,” Adeyemi said.
Deputy Governorship candidate to the late Alhaji Abubakar Audu, Hon James Faleke, who attended the ceremony, said that Adeyemi is a valuable asset to the APC in the state, adding that he was determined to work with him to better the lots of Kogi West.
Faleke said: “I am very happy he is joining us. He is my senior politically and I have a lot of respect for him. He doesn’t need to be in politics to survive but he has the love of his people at heart.
“The job of making the society better is not the task of one man. Anyone who wants to work for his people will not say people should not join him and that is why I am very pleased with his coming.”
Zonal Chairman of APC in Kogi West, Chief Lawrence Asagun, who represented the State Chairman, Alhaji Adi Amatu, said Adeyemi’s coming to APC meant that the party would no longer have sleepless nights in winning the state.
“He was one of those that gave us tough times in winning elections here when he was in the PDP. With his coming, we will no longer have sleepless nights in winning elections in this zone,” Asagun said.
