Jonathan’s Coordinator, Sen. Aspirant, Ex-Commissioner, 5,000 Others Join APC

By Alltimepost.com

National President, Goodluck-for-Transformation and state Women Coordinator, Goodluck Campaign Organisation, Chief (Mrs.) Evelyn Igbafe; a three-time member of the House of Representatives and Senatorial aspirant of the PDP in Edo South, Hon. Ehiogie West-Idahosa have dumped the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress in Edo State.

Others who also dumped PDP and pitched their tents with APC in Benin on Wednesday were a former Commissioner in the old Bendel State and founding member of the PDP, Hon. Roland Ehigiamusoe and over 5,000 of their supporters.

Chief Igbafe said, while decamping that she was merely on sabbatical before, but she was now fully back to the party where her heart truly belongs.

“I am back here to my home. I had gone on sabbaticals, but I am now back home.”

She assured Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and other APC chieftains who received her that many people were disenchanted with the PDP and that “many are on their way to the APC.”

Former national leader and founding member of the PDP, Hon. Roland Ehigiamusoe described PDP as a sinking ship under the grip of a single man.

“I have been a member of the PDP right from inception when it was formed on August 30, 1998. I have been there since and I have witnessed a lot of things.

I am not surprised today that the PDP is sinking and sinking very fast because for quite a long time, it has been working for self-destruction. “

Hon. Ehigiamusoe disclosed that because of the injustices in PDP he had been working behind the scene for the All Progressives Congress in appreciation of the great achievements of Governor Oshiomhole.

“Many of you think that the greatest thing that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has done for us is tarring roads, building schools and infrastructure.

Yes, that has been a revolution, very unique but the greatest thing he did for us was to free all of us from one man’s prison. We have all been in one man’s prison in Uromi since that 1998 and he came and in a wonderful way to free all of us”

“I have been a gubernatorial aspirant, I have participated in many activities in the party and I found that there was nothing we could do unless you are given the opportunity by one man and so when he came with the one man one vote, he freed all of us from the prison at Uromi so I want to say thank you our Comrade Governor.”

Three-time member of the House of Representatives, Hon Ehiogie West-Idahosa said he joined the APC to propagate the message of Change.

According to him, “we went for a race, we lost not just the race, we lost a human being and we feel very pained that had we been here in APC, our safety would have been guaranteed.”

“Many said to me, West, are you sure you can make it there? Are you sure that you are in the right place? Today, my position is clear.

We are all supporters of change and for me, I believe in those values you represent, you want water, light, good schools, good roads and the best standard of living for our people.

Everything you want for our people is to add value to life and as far as we are concerned, we are here to support you and to mobilize the people to join you in pursuing the mandate of 2015 and after that mandate, Change will come to the nation.”

Governor Oshiomhole who received the defectors and over 5,000 of their members said “when, I see the number of people here, I wonder if there is anybody of note that is left under the umbrella that is now severely tattered.

I want to join my chairman in expressing my joy at the opportunity of being able to receive you back to the house that I believe is traditionally yours”.

Oshiomhole distinguished between conservatives and progressives, saying the former is dedicated to preserving the privileges of the few while the latter “want an egalitarian society, a country that offers hope and opportunity to all its citizens and the political environment in which people can realize their potentials even if they do not have god fathers.”

He remarked that APC’s composition has the best brains that can drive sustainable change imperative in the quest to bail people from the present political quagmire.

He condemned the ruling People’s Democratic Party for what he termed its failure to meet the needs of the people, having spent sixteen years in power, with people still in darkness due to lack of electricity.

“The man who has a shop must close by 6 pm. If he operates beyond 6pm, he must put on a generator, and buy petrol or diesel. For 16 years, PDP can’t give us light. But if they were to leave us in peace even in the dark, it will be bad enough but for them, that is not bad enough.”

“Every day, people are protesting across Edo State against PDP-approved policies where people who are in the dark for months are asked to pay what they call fixed charge without fixed light because even from the poor, they must extort money.

Nigeria has been reduced to a banana republic as if there is no government in the land. People have no one to complain to because these economic vultures that are feasting and sucking the blood of the poor have protection in Abuja.”