Hundreds of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday announced their resignation from the party with remarks that the quality representation of Mr Dennis Idahosa (APC – Edo) in the Green Chamber, hastened their decision.
Led by Mr Balogun Okhiwere, the defectors said they were joining forces with the All Progressives Congress (APC), to strengthen the party and assist the lawmaker representing Ovia Federal Constituency to continue his developmental strides.
Okhiwere stressed that the quality of the defectors attest to the fact theirs is to “come and work” and add value to what is already on the ground.
He noted that some of the defectors were key members of the APC that held executive positions in their various wards before defecting to the PDP while some were presently executive members of the PDP.
He further noted that they were like “Sheep without Shepherd haven worked to see to the emergence of the State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, in the last governorship election in Edo.
According to him, “We the undersigned and members of the PDP in Ovia North East hereby resign our membership of the PDP.
“We thereafter resolved to decamp encases to the APC in appreciation of the developmental stride of Hon. Dennis Idahosa who has brought unprecedented infrastructural development to all nooks and crannies of Ovia federal constituency.”
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The lawmaker who received them commended them for their courage and said they will be treated equally with those they met on the ground.
He noted that their coming would indeed help strengthen his resolve to continue to improve the lives of the people of the constituency.
“You are already part of us even before your coming and let me reiterate here that there is no new and old APC with your coming, we are all one and working for the same purpose.
“I appeal to us all to work with unity of purpose so that we can all meet our expectation of making Ovia a better place,” he stated.
