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Ex-senate President, Ex-ministers, Ex- Deputy Governor,dump PDP For APC In Benue by Ndlistic(m): 12:59pm On Jan 24, 2016 |
FORMER Senate President, Chief Ameh
Ebute, led prominent politicians, including
two former ministers, Professor Jerry Agada
and Chief Samuel Ode; former deputy
governor of Benue State, Chief Steven
Lawani, among others, to dump Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) for All Progressives
Congress (APC) in Otukpo area of Benue
State at the weekend.
The defection ceremony, held at the
Government Day College in Otukpo, also
witnessed the defection of former women
leader of PDP, Mrs. A.O. Mary; former
commissioner in the immediate past
administration, Mr. Egbiri Idah; Secretary to
the State Government under George Akume's
administration, Chief Bathlomeu Oche;
former permanent secretary, Ministry of
DefenCe, Chief Mike Onoja, among others.
The occasion, witnessed by state APC
chieftains including the governor and his
deputy, Chief Samuel Ortom and Mr. Benson
Abounu respectively and deputy governor of
Nasarawa State, was chaired by the national
chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-
Oyeigun.
Receiving the defectors, Odigie-Oyegun
noted that most of the defectors were his
friends and colleagues in the defunct Social
Democratic Party (SDP) of the aborted third
republic.
He assured them that the party at state and
national levels would not discriminate
against them and charged them to use their
wealth of experience to ease the victory of
the senatorial candidate in the coming
election. source: http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/node/28126 |
Re: Ex-senate President, Ex-ministers, Ex- Deputy Governor,dump PDP For APC In Benue by caspet(m): 1:05pm On Jan 24, 2016 |
D downfall of d gr8t Okpo'kpowulu 1 of idomaland..Pls, mak shud step down & become an elder state man & Godfather lik Tony Anenih of Edo state. |
Re: Ex-senate President, Ex-ministers, Ex- Deputy Governor,dump PDP For APC In Benue by jimharry21(m): 1:06pm On Jan 24, 2016 |
I hope they are not the ones the honorable minister of information referred to? cos we need our money back or kuje prison is calling |
Re: Ex-senate President, Ex-ministers, Ex- Deputy Governor,dump PDP For APC In Benue by bankyblue(m): 1:07pm On Jan 24, 2016 |
Who don't. Know that Nigeria is a one party state. 2019 some of them might stil run back to PDP............abeg make. I rest jor today na sunday |
Re: Ex-senate President, Ex-ministers, Ex- Deputy Governor,dump PDP For APC In Benue by resty4(m): 1:17pm On Jan 24, 2016 |
Expire n greedy wagons. |
Re: Ex-senate President, Ex-ministers, Ex- Deputy Governor,dump PDP For APC In Benue by divinehand2003(m): 3:10pm On Jan 24, 2016 |
Political prostitutes on the move again |
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