Five prominent members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Both the APC and the PDP in recent weeks have had their fair share of defectors, especially as the APC governorship candidate in the state, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege moves faster to take advantage of the present polarization of the PDP occasioned by fallouts from the outcome of the party’s gubernatorial primary.

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The five APC decampees, Alhaji Unagha Mumakai, Mr Fidelis Adjogbe, Hon Desmond Okpako, Mr Friday Ogbo and Otemu Oghenovo, are from Evwreni Community in Ughelli North Local Government Area, where the founding leader of APC in Delta, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, also hails from.

They were received yesterday Wednesday by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and the PDP candidate for Delta Central Senatorial District, Senator Ighoyota Amori, at the Delta State lodge, Asokoro.

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Today Thursday they were received by the PDP National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, at Wadata Plaza, Abuja.

NewsNet Nigeria gathered that the five decampees are leaders of a large number of APC members from the area who were unable to join others to defect to the PDP at the party’s mega rally held on Saturday, July 23, 2022, at the stadium of the Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro.