The Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has hailed the defection of chieftains and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ndokwa East Local Government Area of the state to the PDP.
The PDP said the defection of the APC chieftains and members in the LGA of the party’s (APC) deputy governorship candidate in Delta State, Hon. Friday Osanebi, on Friday showed that he is “a premature politician and a learner”.
The party said this via a statement issued by the Deputy Director, Media/Publicity Committee, Delta State PDP Campaign Council and State Publicity Secretary, Dr. Ifeanyi Osuoza, on Friday.
The PDP said: “The defections and mass exodus of APC stalwarts and thousands of their party members to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ndokwa East LGA, which took place today, Friday, 20th January, 2023, is ample evidence of the irreversible collapse of the APC in Ndokwa East Local Government Area.
“These renowned Deltans and sons and daughters of Ndokwaland, who led the multitude of other APC members, have declared by their bold and irrevocable action, that they have had enough of the darkness, unending glaring deceits and one-man-show of the APC in the State and Ndokwa East LGA.
“They include: Barr. Austin Ogbolu – Party LGA Chairman; Hon. Ebifa Ijomah – Former Commissioner for Youth and Economic Planning; Jude Ezimadu – Party LGA Secretary.; Obah Emmanuel – Party LGA Youth Leader.; Elizabeth Olisa – Party LGA Woman Leader; Austin Chikodi – State EXCO Member; and Lucky Dikeabi – Legislative Aide to Deputy Senate President.
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“This is in addition to the defection of Chief Tony Amechi, a major financier of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ndokwa East and Ndokwa nation as a whole, who recently dumped the APC with over 3000 of his supporters and was received with rousing reception in Aboh, by our capacity Chairman, Olorogun Kingsley Esiso, our highly distinguished and respected Deputy Governorship Candidate, Sir Monday Onyeme and our dynamic party scribe, Engr. Dan Ossai, amongst others.
“As we celebrate the auspicious emptying of the APC political structure into the PDP in Ndokwa East, we also note with great strategic satisfaction, that the Delta Deputy Governorship Candidate of the APC, Hon. Friday Osanebi is from Ndokwa East LGA, his supposed political stronghold, where he hitherto held sway, as a long-serving PDP Deputy Speaker in the Delta Legislature, before embarking on his infantile and ill-advised journey into anti-party politics, by biting the solid fingers that fed his political ego and ambition generously and successfully.
“These monumental defections from the APC and the crumbling of the foundation of the party’s political structure in Ndokwa East, are not only a bold and clear negation of Osanebi’s selection as Deputy Governorship Candidate of the APC by the people of Ndokwa nation, it equally exposes the widely held notion in the area that Hon. Osanebi is a LEARNER and a premature politician, who is obviously not in control of his electoral Constituency.
“Most importantly, however, is the fact that the exodus of APC Chieftains and stalwarts in NELGA, serves as a categorical validation, acceptance, and endorsement of the distinguished Sir Monday Onyeme, in the same position of Deputy Governorship Candidate of the PDP, as the incontrovertible choice and trusted torch bearer of the people of Ndokwa East and Ndokwa nation, in whom they have reposed their full confidence and trust, to bring the much desired additional dividends of democracy to the area, in the next political dispensation in Delta State.
“We most heartily welcome our new members in Ndokwa East LGA. into the PDP family and assure them that there is enough room and space for everyone under the big, comfortable, and secure Umbrella,” the party noted.
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