May 14, 2026

Former Speaker Dimeji Bankole Joins ADP

By Farouk Mohammed

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Dimeji Bankole has left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Action Democratic Party (ADP).

The former PDP chieftain was mentioned on Thursday alongside 31 others as members of a 32-man Contacts and Mobilisation Committee of ADP.

Although the former Speaker was absent at the event held in Abuja, his father, Alani Bankole, who is the chairman of Board of Trustees of the new party confirmed that his son has since dumped the PDP.

He, however, refrained from commenting on Honourable Bankole next political ambition. saying, “My son is nearly 50 years old. Where l come from, l don’t talk on behalf of such elderly person. He will tell you if you ask him,” he told newsmen.

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