Ezekiel Awojide
Vice President Kashim Shettima, All Progressives Congress National Chairman Abdullahi Ganduje, and the 21 governors elected on the platform of the party will today (Monday) receive the Governor of Delta State, Sheriff Oborevwori, his predecessor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, from the Peoples Democratic Party into the ruling party.
Okowa was the running mate of the presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2023 elections, Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Other elected officials and leaders from ward to state will also join in the defection.
The defectors, to be led by Oborevwori, are to be received at the Cenotaph, Asaba.
Ganduje arrived in Asaba on Sunday and held a series of meetings with defecting officials and Oborevwori.
A former APC National Chairman, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, was among the national leaders who also arrived in Asaba Sunday night.
It will be the first time since 1999 that the state has been under the control of the PDP.
Already, about 10 governors had arrived in the state capital.
These are: Hope Uzodimma (Imo), Bassey Otu (Cross River), Monday Okpebholo (Edo), Usman Ododo (Kogi), Biodun Oyebanji (Ekiti), AbdulRaheem AbdulRasaq (Kwara), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), Mai Mala Buni (Yobe), Dikko Raddah (Katsina) and Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe).
Those who are to join Oborevwori and Okowa in the defection include the Deputy Governor, Monday Onyeme; House of Assembly Speaker, Emomotimi Guwor; Senator James Manager, commissioners and special advisers; state and federal lawmakers; chairmen of local government and councilors and state local government and ward chairmen.
A former Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, who was the APC governorship candidate in 2023, welcomed Oborevwori to the party.
He lauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s “political sagacity and visionary leadership.”
