ABEOKUTA – Six members of the Ogun State House of Assembly elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress.
With this development, the 26-member legislature is now entirely made up of APC lawmakers.
Recall that ater the 2023 elections, the APC secured 17 seats in the Assembly, while the PDP won nine constituencies.
In November 2023, just five months into the tenth Assembly, the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos nullified the election of Babajide Owoduni of the PDP, who represented Ikenne State Constituency.
The court subsequently declared Kunle Sobukola of the APC the winner of the March 18 State Assembly election in the constituency.
The verdict reduced the number of PDP lawmakers from nine to eight.
In 2025, two PDP lawmakers, Rasheed Kashamu (Ijebu North I) and Lukman Atobatele (Abeokuta South I), defected to the APC, leaving six members in the party.
Now, the remaining six PDP lawmakers have joined the APC, giving the party full control of the Assembly.
The defectors include Lukman Adeleye (Odogbolu), the Minority Leader; Bello Oluwadamilare (Sagamu I); Lawal Samusideen (Ogun Waterside); Adesanya Oluseun Samuel (Ijebu North-East); Owode Waliu Ifedolapo (Ijebu East); and Dickson Kolawole Awolaja (Remo North).
The PDP lawmakers reportedly attended the recently concluded APC National Convention in Abuja, where they formalised their defection.
The PDP lawmakers’ defection is expected to be formally announced during plenary in the coming week.
Ogun State PDP has yet to react to this development.
