With a reported promise by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), to ensure that dividends of democracy were circulated
among all members, hundreds of All Progressives Congress (APC) members
in Owan West and Owan East Local Government Areas of Edo State, have
defected to PDP in Edo state.
Vanguard reported that the APC defectors, who were received in
Sabongida Ora, headquarters of Owan West council, by former Senate Chief
Whip, Senator Roland Owie, former Speaker of Edo State House of
Assembly, Zakawanu Garuba, and state deputy chairman, Christopher
Adesotu, who represented the state chairman, Chief Dan Orbih, said: “You are making history today because the North and South of Nigeria were amalgamated 100 years ago.”
The former Senate Chief Whip, charged the people of South-South
geo-political zone to pray that President Goodluck Jonathan contests
next year’s presidential election and also called on the North to
exercise patience and wait for their turn to produce the president.
According to Senator Owie, the PDP had been vindicated by last
week’s verdict of the judges of the Edo State Local Government Election
Tribunal that ordered fresh poll in Esan North-East council, calling on
the members of Edo State Independent Electoral Commission to resign and
face trial.
Among the APC leaders who joined PDP along with their supporters
were; Chief Sunday Ekehinde and Tunde Ehindero, who said they had to
leave APC because the party was corrupt, promising to expose the
corruption in the party soon.
Zakawanu Garuba, who represented the former Chief of Staff to
President Jonathan, Chief Mike Oghiadomhe, said the days of the ruling
APC administration in the state were numbered, given what the party
members described as misrule and destruction of the fabrics of
governance in the state.
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