Mass Defection: 70 Chieftains and 500 Others Set to Ditch PDP for the APC

 

About 570 members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State are set to abandon the party and pitch tent with the All Progressives Congress.

 

The defectors comprising 70 chieftains and 500 other members, will formally announce their move to the APC at a rally on Saturday, August 15, 2015, and will be received by Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo.

 

This was made known to journalists on Saturday, August 8, by Chief Alex Ekiotenne, the former Honorary Adviser to Governor Seriake Dickson.

 

Some of the defecting PDP chieftains are: former Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission and ex-Special Adviser to President Umaru Yar’Adua, Chief Ndutimi Alaibe, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, former Acting Governors Nestor Binabo and Werinipre Seibarugu.

 

Also expected at the defection rally are APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun and five governors among others.