Tobi Adebayo
Governor of Taraba State, Darius Ishaku has described the defection of Cross River Governor, Ben Ayade to the All Progressives Congress (APC)  from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as highly shocking and embarrassing.

Ishaku said this while fielding questions from State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday.

Ayade had dumped PDP for APC on Thursday, May 20th, 2021 and declared that the latter now had total control of the state.

The governor said “We are greatly shocked and embarrassed that he will suddenly dump the party for the APC because all of us see the PDP as an alternative to APC.

“All PDP governors are doing well in their respective states. For him to defect to the APC, I don’t know the details of that.

“But be that as it may, I believe that any democratic country must have an opposition; a viable opposition and opposition in itself is good for democracy.

“If you don’t have an opposition, then the government in power can go astray.

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“But as to the reason why our colleague in the PDP will depart, I don’t know the details, and I can’t vouch for him.

“However, I want to assure you that all the governors in the PDP are doing well in their respective states. Possibly because we are in the opposition and the pressure is on us and we are doing the best we can.

“Let me tell you, the reconciliation committee has done a good job. A very good one. But it depends on the decision of an individual and what he actually hopes to gain.

“You may have the best of intentions; somebody may not agree with you. I think it is more of the governor’s decision as it affects him, and nobody should hold grief for that.”