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Bayelsa PDP Assembly Member, Two Others Defect To APC

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Christopher Uche, Yenagoa

A member of the Bayelsa state House of Assembly,   representing Yenagoa Constituency 1, Hon. Alfred Egba yesterday announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) to the All Progressive Congress, (APC).

 

It was gathered that the decision by the prominent members of the PDP to move into the APC was informed by the new Political profile of the Former Governor,Chief Timipre Sylva and the rising disenchantment by members of the PDP over the disciplinary stance of the State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson over alleged anti-Party activities.

 

Further check revealed that the early defection and regrouping by loyalists of the Former Governor,Timipre Sylva is based on the battle to unseat the PDP in Bayelsa during the Governorship election in 2016.

 

While most of Sylva’s former Aides are considering ways to seek forgiveness from their former Boss over alleged political betrayal after his removal as Governor,others are seeking defection to the APC as part of an alleged plot against the second term bid of the Bayelsa Governor,Hon. Seriake Dickson.

 

Hon. Egba,who served at different capacity in the State House of Assembly Committees,announced that he moved to the APC with his supporters and associates, including a former Special Adviser on Special Duties to the former governor, Chief Timipre Sylva,  Chief Sonme Ogilogi and a former commissioner in the State Independent Electoral Commission, Chief Tom Egba.

 

Hon.Alfred Egba,who had served on the State House of Assembly Committee on Aprropiration and a close allied of the Former Governor,Chief Timipre Sylva,said in a statement issued yesterday in Yenagoa,that he decided to leave the PDP because the party could no longer give him the needed covering and that the PDP’s centre could no longer hold due to the raging crisis in the state leadership of the party.

 

According to him,”the PDP is clouded in series of controversies with parallel Structures of leadership.The Party is surrounded by the emergence of a factional chairman of the party, while another person still claims to be in charge of the party leadership in the state.”

 

“The PDP has been hijacked and there were many occasions when i was never aware of developments in my constituency and the PDP in the State.Even with my prominent position as a member of the State House of Assembly under the platform of the PDP.I have consulted with stakeholders and also seek the face of God before deciding to quit the party.”

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