Doherty dumps Labour Party for APC, states reason

A former Lagos State House of Assembly member Hon. Olukoya Doherty who represented Amuwo-Odofin Constituency 2 has officially resigned membership of Labour Party and decamped to the All-Progressives Congress.

Doherty who advanced reasons for his decision to switch party, harps on sharp deviation from party’s ideologies and his deep progressive tendency as basis.

The agile lawmaker in his resignation letter did not fail to appreciate the LP for giving him a platform on which he made it to the state Assembly adding that though short-lived, he was able to assert himself positively within the space of time.

It will be recalled that Doherty officially joins the All-Progressives Congress at the instance of a Governor Advisory Council (GAC) member in his area- Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, a serving lawmaker in the state Hon. Rauf Age-Sulaimon, Hon Olukolu, Hon. Bibire and Hon Ramotalahi Akinola Hassan the immediate Executive Chairman Oriade LCDA and other APC stalwarts.

Doherty said,” I have been a progressive from my cradle, in fact my father and my late brother were staunch members of the progressives, I even cut my political teeth as progressive, so this is more like home for me.

“I went to Labour Party to prove a point, that is my grassroots credibility and at the Saturday council polls I reaffirmed just that by delivering 100 percent for APC having returned home.” Doherty submits.