Former PDP Governorship Aspirant Osagie Ize-Iyamu Is Set to Defects to APC

Former Secretary to the Edo State Government, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, could be defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at any moment from now.

Information reaching iDONSABI indicates that Ize-Iyamu, the PDP candidate in the 2015 governorship election in Edo State, had confirmed the move yesterday.

Tribune Online also confirmed the move in an interview with the former SSG yesterday. He said that he decided to yield to pressure from his supporters who have persistently pleaded with him to “return home.”

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It could be recalled that Osagie-Iymu was the former South-South zonal vice-chairman of the APC. It is gathered that he is presently in Abuja to strategize his declaration. According to him, he had to succumb to pressure from his supporters because of the disarray within the rank of the opposition party.

Having done his best to reconcile the warring parties within the PDP without success, he said he decided to call it to quit and was fully set to join the APC.

He is Abuja to meet with the top leadership of the party to perfect the plan for the defection, which will take place at a grand rally to be held in the Edo State capital.

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According to him, as a founding member of the Action Congress (AC), which metamorphosed to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and later the APC following the merger of several parties, he was merely returning home and not defecting.

“It is true that I am leaving the PDP for the APC. I am not defecting but merely returning home. I am quitting the PDP because of the too many problems bedeviling the party, which I have tried in my way to resolve without success. It is not a rumour, I am going back home to APC,” he told Tribune.

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