Edo APC members join PDP
A faction of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State on Monday officially declared their membership of the Peoples Democratic Party, after months of intrigues and agitations within the state APC.
The group, led by a former Secretary to the State Government under the former Governor Lucky Igbinedion administration, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, publicly declared their membership of the PDP in Benin, the Edo State capital.
The group had recently announced their resignation from the APC following a seven-day ultimatum given to the state governor, Adams Oshiomole, to nullify the results of the partys congresses.
Speaking at the official declaration of their membership of the PDP, Ize-Iyamu said the defection became necessary to save the political life of the state from the selfish resolve of desperate individuals to dominate the political system.
He assured his supporters that the PDP would sweep the polls in Edo in 2016.
According to a member of the break-away group and former chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria in Edo, Tony Omoaghe, the group had convened a meeting of stakeholders who were then members of the APC in the state, where issues bothering on flawed membership registration exercise as well as the fractured ward and local government congresses conducted by the party in the state were discussed.
Omoaghe lamented that genuine efforts were not made by Oshiomhole to intervene and accede to the demands of the group.
Rather than focus on the issues, so much energy and state resources were dissipated in blackmailing and attempting to induce pockets of the aggrieved to submission. This tactics only went to prove that indeed, all was not well with the party we all laboured to build, he said.
Reacting to the development, the Interim State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Godwin Erhahon, described the defected members as seasonal birds who have parted to meet again.
I congratulate Comrade Oshiomhole for the major relief and assure the people of Edo that they stand to benefit from the exit of these people. We wish them well, he said.
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Edo APC members join PDP