No fewer than 10,000 supporters of the All Peoples Congress (APC) in North-East Senatorial District of Benue State at the weekend decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The defectors, who were led by the House of Representatives member for Kwande/Ushongo, Benjamin Aboho Federal Constituency, were received by the state Governor, Dr. Gabriel Suswam, and other top notchers of the PDP in the state.

Speaking during the ceremony, which held at the Adikpo Community College (ACC) playground in Adikpo, Kwande Local Government Area of the state, Governor Suswam urged other members of the party that had left for various reasons to return to the party.

The governor posited that the defectors had no option than to return to the party because PDP remains the only party in the state.

He stated that those who were returning to PDP had finally realized that they were strange bed fellows with members of the APC, just as he warned youths in the state to stop defacing posters or billboards belonging to contestants.

Describing such attitude as unhealthy for democracy, the governor who observed that posters do not win elections, stressed that elections were meant to be contested after which the most deserving wins the elections.

Earlier, the leader of the decampees, Col. Aboho, said he decided to return to the PDP because it had the key to the development of his people.