About 7,000 members of the Peoples Democratic party PDP in Delta State, including two aides of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, have dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress APC in the state.
The decampees, mainly from Oleh community and its environs in Isoko South local government area of the state, defected alongside Lucky Arumare, Special Assistant to the Governor on Youths and Community Development, Uyoyou Edhekpo, Special Assistant to the Governor on Women Mobilization.
The based their decision to dump the party on alleged high handedness, and continued imposition of candidates by the leadership of the party, alleging that the PDP as a party portends evil with fake ideologies.
At the Oleh primary school ground where the decampees formally announced their exit from the PDP vowed to mobilize against PDP in the state and the local government area, adding that their defection from the PDP was an indication of victory for the APC.
Receiving the defectors, the state chairman of the APC, Jones Erue boasted that Governor Okowa will be shown the way out during the 2019 general election, alleging that there has been decay in infrastructure, and under development in the state in the past three years.
Arumare, former aide to Governor Okowa, who spoke to journalists on behalf of the others, alleged that PDP operates as a “cult group”, adding that members who are not part of the “cult group” were not recognized in the scheme of things.
He said, “We have dumped PDP. We will not go back to the party that operates like a cult group. We were tired and moved into light where we can pursue our political career. We will shock the party come 2019 with our votes. APC has transparent ideologies we will operate with”.
Meanwhile, sources close to Chief James Ibori , a two-time former governor of the state hinted that all was now set for him to dump PDP for APC in the next few days, as a source who did not want to be mentioned in the print, quoted Ibori as saying: “PDP send me to jail, APC released me. We are taking steps very soon”.
Source: Daily Post
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