Jubilation as Edo PDP Senator Returns to APC, Gives Reason
- Former federal lawmaker, Senator Matthew Urhoghide, has returned to the All Progressives Congress (APC)
- Urhoghide dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join the APC on Monday, September 18
- The senator was in the National Assembly between 2015 and 2023 representing Edo South Senatorial District
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Edo state, Benin-City - Former senator representing Edo South Senatorial District on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Matthew Urhoghide, has returned to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Urhoghide returned to the APC on Monday, September 18, almost four months after he resigned his membership of PDP, The Nation reported.
Source: Twitter
Why Urhoghide returned to APC
He was received by the ward chairman, Sunny Omokaro at APC’s Ward 2 secretariat on Airport Road, Benin.
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The senator said he was happy to be back home at the APC
Urhoghide revealed that he left for the PDP due to disagreements over some issues.
“When I resigned from the PDP in May, I said I was going to join another political party, so long as I remain in partisan politics.
“After a careful evaluation of what is going on in Edo State, I decided to go back to the party that I was a part of its building. I am a founding member of APC. This is where I really have my political friends and associates. I came to rebuild APC.
“I am not rejoining APC alone, but moving with my teeming followers and supporters. There is no ward in the entire 77 wards in Edo South Senatorial District that I did not site a project, while I was in the Senate.”
Prominent senator dumps APC for PDP
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The senator's media aide, Muhammad Jamil Gulma, confirmed the defection.
Shekarau officially defects to PDP from NNPP
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This is coming barely three months after Shekarau defected to NNPP from the All Progressives Congress.
Shekarau made the declaration on Monday, August 29 at his Mundubawa home in Kano. He was formally received into the PDP by the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the party’s national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, among other bigwigs.
Source: Legit.ng
