Politics in Nigeria has always been a strange animal - seemingly detached from the grassroots and suddenly rising to gather masses of citizens (rich and poor) at the last few weeks to Election day. ACN Leadership may not be up to the task come 2015. In this game of dominoes which state will take cue next

Aide to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Prince Victor Idemudia, chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the state, Emmanuel Igiebor, were among the over 2,000 ACN members that joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state at the weekend.

The ACN members, who defected at a rally held at the state secretariat of the PDP in Benin City, were from Orhionmwon and Ovia South-West local government areas of the state.

Igiebor, originally a PDP member before he left to join the ACN, returned to the PDP with his supporters.

On his part, Prince Idemudia, who was a member of the Committee on Protection of Government Property in Governor Oshiomhole's administration, said his decision to dump Oshiomhole's administration and

the ACN was occasioned by lack of visionary leadership of the administration.

Thousands of Ijaws in Edo State also defected from ACN to PDP, on Sunday. The spokesperson for the Ijaws, Timi Robert, said they joined the PDP because of President Goodluck Jonathan, who is their kinsman and leader of the PDP.

He assured that all Ijaws people in Edo State would work to ensure victory for General Airhiavbere and the PDP.

The Director General of the Edo PDP Governorship Campaign, Senator Odion Ugbesia, who received the defectors, assured that they would not be any discrimination against them, saying they would be given all the support they needed to ensure that they worked for the party to win the 14 July 2012 governorship election in the state.

The Edo PDP governorship candidate, General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd) while thanking them for believing in him, reassured that he would "restore those things that have eluded the state in the past."

-Tribune

They just jumped into the titanic: bunch of political prostitutes,if what oshiomole is doing in benin is not visionary,i pray God to forgive them for the wrath they will incur at the post. Nonsense thousands ko millions ni

So a common member of a committee who oshiomhole may not even know is what pdp in edo state are celebrating and propagandizing in the media ? What is the population of ijaws in edo that thousands are decamping to pdp ? People deceiving party indeed !