A former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Jimi Agbaje, has denied joining the All Progressives Congress (APC).
There was news in some posts on social media platforms that Agbaje had left the PDP for the APC to back the ruling party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
Speaking in a chat with The PUNCH on Wednesday, Agbaje denied leaving the opposition party.
Asked if he had defected, Agbaje replied, “Definitely not. No truth to the story.”
An aide to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Joe Igbokwe, earlier on Wednesday, hinted that Agbaje may have returned to the APC.
In a post shared on Facebook, Igbokwe, said that information getting to him indicates that the former governorship candidate of the PDP in Lagos state had joined the ruling party.
He wrote: “I hear Jimi Agbaje is back in APC to support Asiwaju BAT. Please let someone help verify this.”
The information Immediately went viral on various social media platforms reiterating igbokwe’s assumptions.
Titled ‘Awalokan 2023,’ a text shared along with the picture read, “I’m fully back in APC to join our South-West leaders as well as progressive Family and friends in Lagos State.
“The Awalokan 2023 is a project that both young and old in all the nooks and crannies of the Southwest should be embraced.“
“On this note, I sincerely join APC from the major opposition party to add my strength.
“I believe It’s time to support and also appreciate Senator Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the forthcoming Presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.”
Jimi Agbaje was the 2019 Lagos State gubernatorial election candidate for PDP in the 2019 general elections.
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