Bayelsa PDP CRACKS as Timi Alaibe, Sam Inokoba, Heneiken Lokpobiri, Nestor Binabo, Werinipre Seibarugu others formally joins APC

The crack in the Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has further deepened with the formal decamping of over 70 key actors and stakeholders from the PDP to the All Progressive Congress (APC). 

The decampees where recieved at the Samson Siasia Stadium Yenegoa Yesterday by thr National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress Chief John Oyegun in a well attended event that took the entire city of Yenegoa by storm. 

The defectors where led by Chief Timi Alaibe former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, Sam Inokoba former state chairman of the PDP.

According to Vanguard, others who dumped the PDP include the immediate past senator representing Bayelsa West, Heneiken Lokpobiri; former Acting Governors Nestor Binabo and Werinipre Seibarugu; Senator John Brambaifa; Senator Clever Ikisipo; a  former House of Representatives member, Dr. Stella Dorgu; a  former NDDC Chairman, Prof. Tarila Tebepah; and a  former Reps member – Christopher Enai.

Oyegun declared that with the quality of defectors into the APC, the ruling PDP, under the leadership of Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, had been decapitated.

The APC Chair  said the mass defection will go down as a milestone in the state political calendar as it marked the freedom of Bayelsans from bad governance and impunity.

While handing over the broom symbol of the party to the decampees, he said the APC was not a party for money sharing but “it is a party for prosperity.

In his speech, the leader of the state APC and former Governor Timipre Sylva said his joy was full due to the fact that the return of the decampees to the APC had reunited brothers and sisters.

Earlier,  Alaibe said the defection  showed the needed change in Bayelsa.

“This is common sense revolution. It is not change for the sake of it. We are changing from poverty to prosperity. We are changing from lies and deceit. We are changing from ‘Wayo’.

“A state as rich as Bayelsa can not tolerate poverty. It is not our portion that our streets show poverty. How can one provide oil and gas and not benefit from it. Change has come to Bayelsa."