Supporters of the former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff, in Delta State, on Saturday, decamped to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).
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The supporters, who are believed to be over 14,000, were led into APC by former deputy national chairman of the PDP, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh.
Ojougboh, who is a former member of House of Representatives, was also an ex-vice chairman of PDP in the South-South zone.
He and other PDP decampees were received by APC at a ceremony in Agbor that was attended by Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachukwu, national vice chairman of APC, Mr. Hilliard Eta, and chairman of the party in the state, Jones Erue, among others.
“We asked the national body to open up the party after the unfortunate court judgment, the next thing we heard was that they were going to grant us amnesty as if we are criminals.
“When Raymond Dokpesi was nominated as member of the committee for the non-elective convention, his nomination was rejected because they said they spent money on the court judgment.
“As if that was not enough, during the Anambra State governorship primary election, Jerry Gana was made chairman of a three-man committee to midwife a transparent election but governors Ayo Fayese of Ekiti State and Nyesom Wike of Rivers State rejected it and came up with another committee that went to Anambra and handed everything to Peter Obi,” Ojougboh said while advancing reason for the group’s decampment at the event that witnessed the symbolic dumping of PDP membership cards into a waste basket and the lowering of PDP drop back banner.
