Senator leaves Ajimobi’s grip

party sometime in 2013 merged with other registered political parties and known as the All Progressives Congress. “In exercise of my  constitutional right to freedom of association under the 1999 Constitution as amended and pursuant to proviso contained in Section 68(g) of the said constitution, I decided to transfer my membership of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria to the Accord Party with all the rights and duties accruing thereto”, he stated.

Though, his political opponents see him as political Lilliputian, there is no doubt that he has several followers from his constituency, Oyo South. He has sunk several solar powered boreholes and empowered hundreds of people with his poverty alleviation programmes.



His defection to Accord Party has no doubt, depopulated the APC and has dimmed the hope of the party in the 2015 elections because most of his followers went with him to his new party.
While some say he has taken the right decision, others are of the view that the step he took to defect to Accord could spell doom for his political future. Those who support his move on their own part claim that had he remained in the APC that Governor Ajimobi would have done everything  to deny him a second term ticket in the Senate.
Apart from the governor, the party leadership is also said to have issues against Lanlehin. Has the senator entered into political doldrums or has he wrenched himself free from oppression, it is the 2015 election and his treatment in Accord party that will tell.
When the going was good, the APC or rather the ACN could boast of two senators out of the three allotted to the state, but, the party has after the earlier defection of Senator Ayo Adeseun to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP now lost the two.