Hundreds of APC members recently decamped to PDP in Oredo LGA of Edo state over the weekend as the gubernatorial election draws near, another 200 members of the APC in the Oredo Ward 1 have also concluded plans to dump the APC for the PDP in support of Asue Ighodalo.
Pastor Sidney Egede led the former APC members to the PDP and said that they decided to change camp following the untold hunger and hardship brought by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu APC-led federal government administration, Egede also
asserted that APC as the party is not an option in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State, he advised the indigenes of Edo State to vote massively for the PDP candidate, Asue Ighodalo, who he believes develop the state as a governor.
Egede believes that APC is not an option in the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State as the party represents untold hardship and poverty.
“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”. Egede said premising his decision on
the choice of the party’s gubernatorial candidate, he is of the opinion that there were more qualified aspirants with electable qualities than Okpebholo.
“I am even angry that the party brought out somebody like that in the midst of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, Dr. David Imuse and Dr. Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe. They could have brought out one of these persons for the election.
“But for then to have gone so low to bring the most mediocre of them all, it is sad. APC has lost the election already and their choice of candidate will make them lose the election”, Egede said.
On hand to receive the decampees was The State PDP Chairman Dr. Tony Aziegbemi, the Edo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, SAN, who thanked the people for joining the party.
The Special Adviser on Media and Projects to the Edo State governor, Hon. Osagie Crusoe, commended the former APC leader for leading the people into the PDP, stating that with Egede, PDP will record resounding victory in the Ward in the election; a leader of PDP in Oredo Ward 1 and the sponsor of Garrison Political Force and Overflow Movement and Good Force Organisation for Asue Ighodalo and Osarodion Ogie, described Egede as a formidable asset to the PDP.
“In this coming election, we are not going to have any formidable opposition because the only person who we used to contend against in elections is Sidney Egede who is now coming to join forces with us.
“So, it is going to be a one-way election for the PDP in this coming September 21 gubernatorial election in Edo State”, Crusoe said.
