2023 Elections: Okowa’s Aide Blasts PDP’s Premier Group, DUG Over Defection to APC
- Atiku Abubakar on Monday, January 23 stormed Asaba, as he arrived at the Delta state capital with some high-ranking officers of the PDP and presidential campaign council members
- But the PDP standard-bearer and his camp were saddened by a development in the state where some party chieftains defected to the APC, with just a few weeks left before the 2023 general election
- Meanwhile, an aide to Atiku's running mate, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, lampooned the members of the PDP who dumped the party for the APC in the state
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There is a major shakeup in the Delta state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a prominent group dumped the party, a few weeks before the 2023 presidential election.
Reacting, Nelson Egware, the senior special assistant to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State on Media, berated some aggrieved members of the PDP, who belong to the Delta Unity Group (DUG), for defecting to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
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PDP chieftains dumped party, and joined APC in Delta state
Egware noted that the development was an exercise in futility, THISDAY newspaper reported.
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In a statement signed on Monday, January 23rd, in Asaba, Egware described the DUG members as a group of failed politicians and intolerant losers who had their time in privileged positions in the past but have apparently failed to justify the privileged positions by impacting meaningfully in the lives of the people.
Describing the decision of the defecting PDP members in the DUG as the last kicks of a dying horse, Egware observed that no one pulls down the house he helped to build, Vanguard report added.
PDP Crisis: Disquiet in Delta as Ibori supports APC Senatorial Candidate
In a twist of events, the former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori made a move that has thrown the Peoples Democratic Party in Delta state, into fresh crisis.
This is as a result of Ibori throwing his weight behind the ambition of Hon Joel Onowakpo-Thomas, the Delta South Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the 2023 general elections.
Ibori made his choice public on Wednesday, January 18th, when the senatorial candidate visited the former governor in his country home in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area, as part of his campaign and consultations towards realising his dream of succeeding Senator James Manager in the upper chamber of the National Assembly.
2023 Elections: Tinubu hits at PDP, says Delta state not ATM for migratory politicians
Legit.ng earlier reported that Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, condemned the PDP for its failure to develop infrastructure in Delta state.
The presidential hopeful said the Niger Delta will stop being an ATM for the opposition after the 2023 elections, where his party would be voted in.
The former governor of Lagos state promised to clean and develop the state in terms of infrastructure and other democratic benefits.
Source: Legit.ng
