Edo APC is a Limited Liability Company, Oshiomhole the manager - Solomon Edebiri

By Ehi Ekhator

As 2015 comes near, more politicians are defecting from the party they believe they won’t be recognized or respected to the other party, many politicians have been reported jumping from the ruling party to the opposition or the other way round.

PDP

The Governorship candidate of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in 2012 elelction in Edo State, Solomon Edebiri has finally dump the All Progressives Congress, APC for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on Thursday in Benin City.

Lashing at the former party, he said Edo APC is a “Limited Liability Company, where governor Adams Oshiomhole is the manager, ” adding that the old lack of internal democracy and other anti-democratic tendencies were imported to APC.

He said “What took place in Edo State during and after the last local government congress negated all I thought about how democracy should be practiced. Before my very eyes, I saw the erosion of the principles of agreement which we all swore to uphold. Efforts aimed at resolving these issues met brick walls and there was no sign that the situation was going to get better.

“Believing that the political aspirations of my people cannot be met within the APC, I hereby without regret denounce my membership of APC and join the PDP along with my followers from this day onward. I took this decision, not for myself alone but for the over 100,000 party members that believe in the Solomon Edebiri philosophy,” Edebiri added.

The Edo State PDP Chairman, Chief Dan Orbih while receiving the Edebiri, APC woman leader, Mrs. Kate Asemota, and the Edo Boys Group, says the defection mark the fall of APC in the state.

He noted that the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole was carried by the people of Edo State on their back to become the governor and then neglected them after he assumed office, adding that APC government has reduced the people to poverty through an oppressive tax policies and failed electoral promises.

Dan Orbih said “He [Oshiomhole] deceived workers, teachers, students, doctors, okada riders, market women, artisans and everybody but he could not deceive me. He could not deceive me because I knew him and I still know him very much,” Orbih alleged.

He advised members of the APC who are still confused and undecided about joining the PDP to come home as the party is big enough to accommodate them.

Edo APC is a Limited Liability Company, Oshiomhole the manager - Solomon Edebiri