Senator dumps PDP for the second time, defects to APC
– Uzamere dumps PDP again, defects to APC
– The senator in the 7th NASS says his decision to join APC is due to the leadership crisis rocking the PDP
– Uzamere had in 2010 defected from the PDP to the defunct ACN
Ehigie Uzamere, the senator who represented Edo South in the Seventh National Assembly, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a report on The Nation, Uzamere joined the APC yesterday, July 31, after the party’s chieftains in Edo South, led by the party’s state secretary, Chief Osaro Idah, visited him.
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Ehigie Uzamere, the senator who represented Edo South in the Seventh National Assembly, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to Uzamere, his decision to join APC is due to the leadership crisis rocking the PDP, The Nation.
He said: “Apart from the fact that Oshiomhole has done well, the PDP today is tattered. As it is now, we don’t know who will be the candidate of the PDP in Edo state. I saw it coming when I resigned three months ago and I have been proved right. The PDP has two national chairmen, two governorship candidates. So, how will I convince my people to vote for a party enmeshed in crises? I have no great leaving the party. From the way it is now, it might not have a candidate.”
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This was the second time Uzamere was defecting from the PDP to another party.
He had defected from the PDP in 2010 to the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), to secure the party’s ticket for a second term in the Senate. But he returned to the PDP in 2014, after a disagreement with Governor Adams Oshiomhole over a Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) appointment.
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