Over twenty thousand members of Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and that of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday in Delta State defected to the All Grand Alliance Party (AGAP).
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the members defected to the AGAP at an event held at Ubeji Grammar School where a stampede was recorded when the mammoth crowd of defectors were scrabbling for membership card of the party.
While although no death was recorded, there were injuries which medical personnel and Red Cross officials attended to swiftly.
Speaking at the event, leader of the PDP defectors Mr. Gabriel Ejejigbe said “We are defecting from PDP because the ruling PDP government has brought depression and devastation to the people instead of development.
“Since the inception of this present government, there is no single employment for the teeming youths, no industry, no agricultural implements, no economic development, no security”.
He revealed that the over fifteen thousand PDP defectors was just a tip of the iceberg, stressing over a hundred thousand of PDP members are registering with him online to vote out the bad PDP government in 2019.
On his part, Mr. Anthony Ejaife, in his address on behalf of the APC defectors, said the arrival of AGAP in Delta state was a great relief, stressing that before now they have been disillusioned that there was no hope for the State.
“I thought APC was ripe to oust the PDP government in the State but the ruling government encroached into our midst hence APC has been bedevilled with unending crisis, therefore the coming of AGAP is divine hence thousands of our members are here to join bring good governance to Deltans through AGAP,” Anthony said.
Chairman of AGAP in Delta State, Prince Alex Oyoro, who received the defectors, promised that, as long as every member of AGAP fight for a common course to bring Delta state to its rightful perspective, everyone would be treated with the same measure.
