OYOINSIGHT.COM can authoritatively report that the lawmaker representing Ibadan North West State constituency in the Oyo State House of Assembly, Dawood Akanni Olalere, left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the African Democratic Congress, ADC, to achieve his aim of representing the people of Ibadan North West/South West federal constituency in the 2027 general election.
The seat is currently occupied by Dhikrullah Olajide Stanley (Odidiomo) who is serving his second consecutive term in the green chambers. From Ibadan South West local government, the lanky and fluent legislator has his eyes on the governorship seat.
Politically known as D-Al-Ameen, he officially dumped his former party last week via a letter addressed to his ward 7 PDP chairman on valentine day’s eve.
Though he said his resignation was occasioned “by the long lingering and unresolvable division that is bedeviling the party,” OYOINSIGHT.COM confirmed that he left also because of his rift with top leaders of the party from the council area which included deputy state chairman of the party, Wasiu Adeleke and Lukman Adesina.
The rift with the duo and others, a top party official told this newspaper, has been from day one, as they have not been receptive to him. “D-Al-Ameen has made it known long ago that he wants to go to the green chambers after completing his tenure in 2027. Apart from this, he has been fighting with the duo of Adeleke and Adesina who are strong supporters of Akin Fagbemi who is from the same local government.”
Fagbemi, an Ibadan Mogaji, former chairman of the Oyo State Road Traffic Management Authority, OYRTMA and currently chairman of the Oyo State Hospital Management Board, has stepped down for the current occupier twice— in 2019 and 2023.
Another source, who is a colleague of D-Al-Ameen, said his defection came despite assurance from the leader of the party, ‘Seyi Makinde, governor of the state, that all first term members of the assembly would be considered for a returned ticket in 2027.
