PDP LG chairmen defect to AC in Edo

Uchechukwu Olisah, Benin City - 01.11.2009

Six local government council chairmen, two local government council vice chairman and a host of other members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo state on Saturday defected to the Action Congress (AC) at a rally in Benin City, which the AC described as a political earthquake.

The local government council chairmen that crossed over to the AC were those of Etsako Central, Mr. Stanley Odidi; Oredo, Mr. Ogieva Gbajumo; Egor, Mr. Crosby Eribo; Ikpoba Okha, Mrs. Itohan Osahon, Ovia North East, Mr. Faustine Ovienroba, and Uhunmwode, Mr. John Obazee.

The vice chairman of Akoko Edo local government area, Mr. Akin Agboja, the vice chairman of Igueben local government area, as well as a popular business man, transporter, and Benin High Chief, Chief John Osamede Adun, alias, Bob Izua, popular PDP women leader, Chief (Mrs.) Evelyn Igbafe, and a PDP leader in the state, Chief Henry Okoror, crossed over from the PDP to the AC. The list of the over 90 defectors and a their followers who were in their hundreds included serving PDP councillors and supervisory councillors, former members of the state House of Assembly and the House of Representatives which cut across the 18 local government areas of the state.