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 Mr Lucky Arumare, Special Assistant to the Governor on
Youths and Community Development, Mrs. 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 on Thursday
evening, they 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, Prophet 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.
According to him, “Governor Okowa
is serious apology to Delta State. He will be shown the way out from Government
House by Delta people through their votes. The people have concluded to
enthrone an APC government come 2019 in Delta State. PDP has nothing to offer to
the people of Delta State”.
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”.
If corrupt PDP jailed you of corruption and clean APC freed you, who indeed is fighting corruption? I am confused.
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