Among other notable members from the PDP who abandoned the umbrella for the broom in the state were three-time member of the House of Representatives and Senatorial aspirant of the PDP in Edo South, Hon Ehiogie West-Idahosa and a former Commissioner in the old Bendel State and a founding member of the PDP, Hon. Roland Ehigiamusoe.
Chief Igbafe who was received to the APC by Governor Adams Oshiomhole, said she was merely on sabbatical before, but she is now fully back to the party where her heart truly belongs.
“I am back here, to my home. I have gone on sabbaticals, but I am now back home.”
She disclosed to the governor that many people are disenchanted with the PDP and “are on their way to the APC”.
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The former national leader and founding member of the PDP, Hon. Roland Ehigiamusoe, added hat the party is a sinking ship which is under the grip of a single man.
"I have been a member of the PDP right from inception when it was formed on August 30, 1998. I have been there since and I have witnessed a lot of things.“I am not surprised today that the PDP is sinking and sinking very fast because for quite a long time, it has been working for self-destruction. There are a lot of injustices in that party. That is why over two years now, I have been working behind the scene for the All Progressive Congress because of the great things that the governor has been doing and has done for us.“Many of you think that the greatest thing that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has done for us is tarring roads, building schools and infrastructure. Yes, that has been a revolution, very unique but the greatest thing he did for us was to free all of us from one man’s prison. We have all been in one man’s prison in Uromi since that 1998 and he came and in a wonderful way to freed all of us,” he said.
Other former members also expressed their displeasure over happenings in the PDP, adding that the party had failed them and Nigerians as a whole.
Receiving the new members, Oshiomhole said:
Receiving the new members, Oshiomhole said:
“I think the main issues are clear now to many of our people and I have had several platforms to canvass these issues in the past few weeks. In this hall and outside, there are people who are not even members of any political party who cannot understand how and why 16 years of PDP federal government, Nigeria is still in the dark.
“The man who has a shop must close by 6:00 p.m. If he operates beyond 6:00 p.m., he must put on a generator, and buy petrol or diesel. For 16 years, PDP can’t give us light. But if they were to leave us in peace even in the dark, it will be bad enough but for them, that is not bad enough.
“Every day, people are protesting across Edo against PDP-approved policies where people who are in the dark for months are asked to pay what they call fixed charge without fixed light because even from the poor, they must extort money.
“Nigeria has been reduced to a Banana Republic as if there is no government in the land. People have no one to complain to because these economic vultures that are feasting and sucking the blood of the poor have protection in Abuja.”
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