Citing concerns over the hunger and hardship they attribute to President Tinubu’s administration, more than 100 former APC members in Benin City’s Oredo Ward 1 have defected to the PDP.
Speaking at a ceremony, a pastor, Egede, who led the defection explained that the decision to abandon the APC was driven by the party’s inability to tackle the pressing issues affecting Nigerians. He urged residents to support PDP candidate Asue Ighodalo in the upcoming governorship election, expressing confidence in his ability to bring development to the region.
He asserted that APC as the party is not an option in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State, even as he advised residents to vote massively for the PDP candidate, Asue Ighodalo, who according to him will bring all-round development to the people as governor.
His words: “APC not an option in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State because since May last year, when the President came into power, he has brought extreme poverty to the people that we have never experienced in Nigeria before.
“I have told many people in Oredo Ward 1 that they should join the PDP. This is because PDP has never inflicted this kind of suffering on our people.
“We cannot continue to play politics with our lives. We need to come together and stand for the candidature of Dr. Asue Ighodalo and Barr. Osarodion Ogie in this coming election in Edo”.
He further stated that his decision to dump the APC was informed by the choice of the party’s gubernatorial candidate and opined that more qualified aspirants with electable qualities were jettisoned for what he described as the ‘most mediocre’.
Receiving the decamping into the party on behalf of the state PDP Chairman Dr. Tony Aziegbemi, the Edo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, SAN, thanked the people for joining the party.
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