• Asks Delta governor to vacate seat
By Chinelo Obogo
In his reaction, the former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, said he was ‘shell shocked’ by the defection of Sheriff Oborevwori and Ifeanyi Okowa to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
George said he was shocked that governor and Okowa his predecessor, who were both elected on the platform of the PDP could defect to an ‘unorganised’ party.
He stated that the Delta governor would have to give up his position since he was elected on the platform of the PDP.
“I am shell-shocked. How can our governors from an organised party defect to an unorganised party like the APC with only two people, Tinubu and Ganduje, dictatorially controlling the party? The APC is a party of strange bed-fellows and I urge Deltans not to follow Oborevwori to party because Delta is a PDP state from 1999 and it shall remain so. The presidency and the APC are using instruments of state to coerce the PDP governors to defect to the APC. They are being threatened. The PDP sponsored Oborevwori as governorship candidate. “So, he has to leave office. Attempts to turn Nigeria to a one-party state will fail. What has the APC done since 2015 that will warrant any PDP governor to defect to the party?” George said.