The membership strength of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State depleted on Wednesday when over 1,000 former members dumped the broom and embraced the umbrella of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The defectors were led by the 2019 state House of Assembly candidate for Burutu constituency II, Peres Oloye, and the 2019 campaign coordinator and present publicity secretary of the party in Delta South Senatorial District, Agodi Agbor.
Declaring for the umbrella party at Tuomo town in Burutu Local Government Area of the state at a well-attended meeting of the PDP, Oloye surrendered his broom, the symbol of the APC to the leadership of the PDP, saying they were pioneer members of the PDP before they left in 2018 in search of electoral fortunes.
‘I left for the APC in the interest of the Ijaw nation and in search of greener pastures and adventure but I found out that the APC in Delta State is grossly anti-Ijaw. No Delta Ijaw person is considered good for any appointment,’ Oloye said.
‘All appointments made were given to other tribes and it seems there is no future for us who are ijaw people in the party in addition to endless in-fighting and intractable internal disunity in the state chapter of the party. So, I have decided to return to my original home, the PDP.’