Ndoma-Egba, Otu, Others Defect To APC

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Saturday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State received a former senate leader, Chief Victor Ndoma-Egba as well as a former

governor of the state, Mr. Clement Ebri and Senator Bassey Otu to the party.Odigie-Oyegun, who received over 1,000 defectors mainly from the Peoples Democratic Party, at the Government Primary School in Atu, Calabar-South, said the party was ready to take over the leadership of the state in the
next general elections.Other notable personalities that defected included a former representative of Cross River State on the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr. Paul Adah, an ex-PDP state chairman, Ambassador Soni Abang, a former governorship aspirant of the PDP, Mr. Goddy Jedy-Agba, a former Labour Party governorship candidate, Mr. Fidelis Ugbo, a PDP governorship aspirant in the last election, Mr. Francis Bullem, another candidate for the Progressives Peoples Alliance, Mr. Goddie Akpama, among others. Odigie-Oyegun said the defection was a signal that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was moving in the right direction.