Immediate past deputy governor, Chief Steve Lawani, former Senate President, AmehEbute and two former Ministers, Dr. Sam Ode and Professor Jerry Agada were yesterday among chieftainsof the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that defected to the All Progressives Congress in Otukpo, Benue State.
Others were a former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Defence, Chief Mike Onoja; a member of the National Assembly in the second Republic, Senator Godwin Okpe; former Deputy Director General of Senator David Mark Campaign Organisation, Dr John Enyi and pioneer PDP chairman in Benue State, Chief AgadaIgomu.
They joined the ruling APC with thousands of their followers at a carnival-like ceremony that marked the formal flag off of the Comrade Daniel Onjeh Senatorial Campaign at the Government Secondary School Eupi in Otukpo.
APC’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, received the defectors.
He urged the electorates to be part of the wind of change that blew across the country last year by voting forOnjeh, who he described as a courageous young man with the capacity of effecting
positive change in the senatorial district.
positive change in the senatorial district.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief AuduOgbeh, said if elected, Comrade Onjeh would team up with him, Governor Ortom and President MuhammaduBuhari to bring positive surprises to them.
He said with the calibre of the defectors, the election would be a celebration and affirmation of President Buhari’s mandate.
Senator Ebute, who spoke on behalf of the defectors, said they were shocked by the magnitude of decay in the last 16 years of the PDP.
The defection, he explained,was expression of their disgust and dissociation from the misdeeds.
Governor Ortom commended the new party members for what he described as their wise decision to get on the same page with Nigerians.
He assured that adequate security would be provided to ensure that voters exercise their franchise freely without molestation.
Onjeh said if elected, he will liberate Benue South from slavery.
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