Mr Jimi Agbaje has denied dumping his political party Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) for the ruling party of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as his media aide released a statement on his behalf, debunking the rumour of him dumping the PDP.
According to the media aide to Mr Jimi Agbaje, one Felix Oboagwina, denied the report that his principal had dumped the opposition party, calling such news as untrue.
Oboagwina described the reports as fake news, saying they were figments of the imaginations of the authors. He said that Mr Jimi Agbaje was still very much in PDP and that there was no way he could have joined APC on social media.
“There is nothing like that, nothing like that at all. He is still in PDP; he has not defected.
“How can people say he has defected on social media? He is too big for that; he is in PDP,” Oboagwina said.
Shortly after the governorship election in March, which Mr Jimi Agbaje lost to Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu of APC, reports went viral that Agbaje had dumped the PDP for APC over differences with party elders.
However, the PDP candidate swiftly through a press statement issued by Oboagwina, who was Director of Media of his campaign organisation, denied the reports.
The PDP governorship candidate said the “rumour’’ was the handiwork of people he called mischief makers and vowed not to leave the party.
“I will remain in PDP despite the campaign of calumny being waged against me in the media by a few elders.
“For a party that has twice accorded me the honour of running on its platform, it should be regarded as uncharitable to say I am abandoning the party, ‘’ he had said.
Agbaje also dismissed the allegation of mismanagement of campaign funds by some party elders, saying he spent the money according to directives from the national secretariat.