APC chieftain in Benin dumps APC for PDP, places curse on anyone who goes back to APC

A BENIN high chief and Edo state chairman of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (rAPC), Chief Osamede Adun has placed a curse on any member of the party who decamped to the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and returned back to the former party.

Adun, the Ayobahan of Benin who led thousands of defecting red capped Kwankwasiya members to the PDP state secretariat in Benin said that they dumped the ruling party in favour of the PDP because of the large-scale poverty and high handedness which the APC is notorious for.

He swore that he and his supporters made a move to the PDP which he originally belonged after a careful appraisal of the state affairs in Edo state, insisting that the APC led government has failed woefully at both the state and federal levels.

He said: “We are back home to the PDP. I am placing a curse on anybody who comes here to spy on us with the intention of going back to the APC. There is a curse on anybody here who goes back to APC. We are rt through with APC and will never go back to that party. Woe betides anybody here who goes back to APC. There is poverty everywhere. That is the only achievement of APC. We are back to make PDP better than we met it.”

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The former top member of the ruling party lashed out at the ruling party for being very vindictive, noting that after they helped the party to win the last election in Edo state, the very first thing Governor Godwin Obaseki did was to throw some of his supporters in prison and demolish their properties.

Speaking, the APC state chairman. Chief Dan Orbih said that the country was presently witnessing very difficult times under the leadership of the APC and was drifting towards dictatorship, adding that the development portends great danger to the country’s democracy.

Orbih said that the rights of the citizens were daily been eroded, and condemned the recent security raid of the Abuja resident of Chief Edwin Clark.

Welcoming the defectors, the party chairman said that the decision of the defectors would change the political destiny of the State.

He added that APC was presently experiencing “political Ebola” said the mass defection of APC members in the State to the opposition PDP, was a manifestation of the failed APC leadership in the state.

Speaking on behalf of defectors from Ovia South West and North East, Mrs Lucy Omagbon, immediate past chairman, Ovia North East, said that they were back to the party that made them.

Omagbon said that it was lack of understanding that caused her defecting to the APC about 10 years ago.

Like the prodigal son, she pleaded that the PDP accepted her and her supporters back and gave assurance to join hands to wrest power from the APC both at the national and state.

Also, Mr. Osaze Osaretin, a former chairman in Uhunmwode Local Government Area said that he was returning to the PDP because he has discovered a new PDP which was responsible and responsive to the yearnings of Nigerians.