Dare Babalola
A member of the House of Representatives, Leke Abejide has expressed his views on the opposition coalition’s recent performance.
According to the lawmaker who spoke on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Friday, the coalition’s inability to win a single seat in the August 16 by-elections marks the beginning of the end of the movement.
Abejide, who represents the Yagba East/Yagba West/Mopamuro constituency of Kogi State, believes that the coalition’s failure in the by-elections is a significant setback. He thinks that this failure will have long-term consequences for the coalition’s prospects.
The lawmaker predicts that the opposition coalition will collapse in September. Abejide’s assessment is based on the coalition’s poor performance in the by-elections, which he sees as a sign of deeper problems within the movement.
Abejide, who described himself as the “landlord” of the ADC, said he had taken the party to its current height.
“You can see that the coalition collapsed last Saturday; all over the country, they could not even win one seat. That was the beginning of the end.
“By early next month, the coalition will collapse completely, because you cannot come to somebody’s house, hijack his house, and you think that the person, no matter how stupid he is, will be looking at you.
“I will let them know that I am the landlord. I didn’t establish the party, but I am the one who made the party remain where it is today.
“I have never decamped to a big party; I have used it [the ADC] to contest all my elections and brought people, apart from myself, to the National Assembly and the state assembly,” he stated.
