Scores of PDP leaders and followers including Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, the immediate past governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, and all members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Delta State have announced their defection from the PDP to the APC.
Senator James Manager made this statement in Asaba, Delta State capital on Wednesday after a six hours meeting held at the Government House, Asaba.
Manager stated, “All PDP members in the state, including the governor, former Governor Okowa, the Speaker, the state party chairman, all the local government chairmen and others, have agreed to move to the APC.
“We cannot continue to be in a sinking boat,” he said.
Mr Aniagwu Charles, the Delta State Commissioner for Information made an official confirmation of the governor’s defection and the decision of all Delta state PDP leaders and stakeholders to join the All Progressives’ Congress.
There is a need for us to adjust our drinking patterns. And in adjusting that drinking pattern, we needed to make a decision that would further help to cement the development in our state, to build the court of law that has existed in our state, to further advance the cause of security and the welfare of our people, and, to a large extent, ensure that development in Delta is not truncated,” Aniagwu stated.
He continued, “In taking that decision, we concluded that leaving the PDP was very necessary for us to be able to collaborate and build a state that every Deltan will be proud of. We believe that what is happening, and the state of the PDP, is akin to that palm wine whose taste has changed — and there was a need for us to change the drinking party.”
“By the grace of God, on Monday next week, we will be able to make a very big statement confirming that we are moving into the APC,” he said.