Delta ex-commissioner leaves PDP for APC with over 1,000 supporters
- The PDP has lost over 1,000 supporters in Sapele local government area of Delta state
- The defectors were led by a former commissioner in the state, Abraham Bobo
- Their defection was partly due to internal crisis rocking the Sapele chapter of the PDP over some political appointments
Over 1,000 former members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Sapele local government area of Delta state have reportedly dumped the party for the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).
Daily Sun reports that the defectors were officially received into the APC at the weekend inside the Sapele LGA secretariat of the APC.
According to the report, they were led by a former commissioner in the state, Abraham Bobo.
Other notable leaders of the PDP who dumped the party were Chief W. Ayomanor, Onoriode Temiagi, Dr. Joseph Ogodo, Mr. Anthony Ayomanor, Sunday Umukoro, and Chief Onomor along with their supporters.
Their defection was partly due to internal crisis rocking the Sapele chapter of the PDP over some political appointments by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and the state leadership of PDP.
Receiving the defectors on behalf of the state chairman of APC, Jones Erue, deputy chairman, Engr. Elvis Ayomanor boasted that the party would take over Government House, Asaba, saying that the party remained the only platform to liberate the people of Delta state from the PDP-led government.
Ayomanor said with the calibre of persons in the party, APC would stop at nothing at ensuring that it becomes the ruling party in the state soon.
He said the party’s doors were open to receive more converts who had realised that the opposition PDP has no future in the state.
Earlier, the leader of the defectors, Abraham Bobo, said they decided to join the APC to support the developmental efforts of President Muhamadu Buhari and rescue the state from the grip of PDP.
He also commended the leadership qualities of the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, vowing to work with him to ensure that Delta becomes an APC state soon.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari's appointment of Mr Bernard Okumagba as the new Managing Director-designate of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) must be respected, the deputy national publicity secretary of the APC, Mr. Yekini Nabena has said.
Nabena was reacting to a publication by a group in Delta state faulting Okumagba's appointment over his alleged non-membership of the APC and being Urhobo.
Speaking with journalists in Abuja on Sunday, September 15, the APC spokesman revealed that some aggrieved persons within the party were responsible for the campaign of calumny against President Buhari's choice of Bernard Okumagba as NDDC boss.
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