TVC NEWS [BENIN]- A leader of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and former Chairman of the
National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas
workers (NUPENG) in Edo State, Southsouth
Nigeria, Comrade Johnbull Asemota, the present
Chairman, Comrade Osahon Osamuyi, 20 members
of the PDP Executive in Uhumwonde Local
Government Area and members of the NUPENG
union numbering over three thousand, have formally
joined the All Progressives Congress at a mass rally
in Benin City, last Saturday.
Comrade Asemota said he decided to join the APC to
lend support to the Governor in his quest to quickly
develop the state.
Comrade Oshiomhole who addressed the defecting
PDP leaders and their massive supporters said “I am
happy today that many people have continued to see
the developmental projects of this administration
especially Uhumwonde people by joining the All
Progressive Congress (APC).
“This man you see with me is a Comrade like me and
those people who separated us before now have
gone and he is with us today. In fact, PDP is finished
in Uhumwonde Local Government.
“For too long, few people have held Edo State in
bondage, they pocket everything they see and
reduced the State to a laughing stock.
He said “when I arrived here in 2007, PDP said I was
joking; that they will rig the election because
everybody as at then believed that rigging was a
way of life, but we have demobilized them”.
Oshiomhole stressed “in all elections conducted
from the units to the 192 wards in the state, we have
defeated the Peoples Democratic Party.
God has used us to deepen their graves because God
can see our heart.
“I read a report in one of the National newspapers
last week where the PDP National Publicity
Secretary, Olisa Metuh said the trouble in Edo is
caused by the Comrade Governor because he wants
to become the next Vice-President of Nigeria.
Oshiomhole said “right there in the Villa in Abuja, I
told them that I am qualified to be the President of
Nigeria because I have the
qualifications, the integrity, the pedigree and the
capacity to do so. I have commanded the productive
forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as
President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
According to him, “the issue of President or Vice-
President is not the problem. I have a job which I
applied for. I have asked for the mandate
to govern Edo State and I promised to deliver on my
promises even without any stated point or agenda.
He said “the water, the roads, the schools and
electricity supply delivered to the people have
become my own agenda. The APC government does
not believe in any 4-point or 7-point agenda. Ours is
eye-marked and not ear-marked.
Comrade Oshiomhole further said that “PDP in its
desperate move to win elections by all means come
2015 have decided to use millions of naira from
Abuja to buy over APC lawmakers in the Edo State
House of Assembly.
“Some of the lawmakers in their bid to complete
their various hotel projects sold the peoples
mandates that were never bought with money.
Oshiomhole said “the crisis in Edo State House of
Assembly is a result of the failure of the four (4) PDP
lawmakers to obey court orders.
Those who make law should not be seen breaking
the laws. The four PDP lawmakers are seen to
perpetrate illegality by disobeying court order and
as if that were not enough, they went to the Federal
Court of Appeal to restrain the rest of the APC
lawmakers led by Rt. Hon. Uyi Igbe from suspending
them from the House. Yet, the court disgraced them
and asked that they first go and obey the order of
the state High Court of Justice”.
Governor Oshiomhole however assured the PDP
defectors that his administration will continue to
provide dividends of democracy to the
people of Uhunmwonde Local Government and
urged their leader, Comrade Johnbull Asemota to
join other leaders at the Local Government and
mobilize for the APC.
Leader of the decampees, Comrade Johnbull
Asemota who was a one-time House of
Representatives aspirant on the platform of the PDP
said “before the coming of Comrade Adams
Oshiomhole, when it’s going to rain, cellophane bags
are seen flying everywhere. Today Oshiomhole has
cleaned the environment.
“There are street lights everywhere, traffic lights on
every junction in Benin City, there are good roads,
and schools have been modernized;
if there is anything like 3rd term, we would have
given it to Oshiomhole, he has done well for the
state. Since there is no 3rd term, we will support
whoever APC projects to continue from where he
stops”.
Also, the present state chairman of NUPENG,
Comrade Osahon Osamuyi on his part pledged to
support Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and APC in the
state stressing that those who have been obstacles
in their contribution toward the support of the
Comrade Governor in the past have returned to the
destination.
The APC State Chairman, Anselm Ojezua later
decorated the Leader of the defectors, Comrade
Johnbull Asemota, the present NUPENG Chairman
Edo State, Comrade Osahon Osamuyi and others
with APC emblem while their former PDP
membership cards were openly destroyed. http://www.tvcnews.tv/?q=article/nigeria-pdp-leader-3000-supporters-join-apc-edo