‘Defection was to attach Delta to Abuja’ – Okowa on why he, Oborevwori dumped PDP for APC

The Peoples Democratic Social gathering, PDP, ex-presidential working mate, Ifeanyi Okowa on Monday defined why he and Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Okowa mentioned they defected from PDP to APC as a result of they wished to attach Delta State to the goodwill and sources on the federal stage in Abuja.

Final week, Okowa and Oborevwori formally defected to APC, a scenario that appears to have unsettled the PDP at nationwide stage.

However giving causes for his or her defection, Okowa mentioned the transfer was in the perfect curiosity of the state. He spoke throughout the APC welcome ceremony for the defectors on Monday.

In response to Okowa: “When the information broke on Wednesday that we had determined to vary our path, folks puzzled why, however one factor is essential in a folks’s historical past: there may be at all times a time to vary their path for the frequent good of the folks.

“As I did inform those who day, it was not about me, it was not in regards to the governor, however the reality that there’s a want for us to hook up with Abuja, that goodwill that’s in Abuja, that useful resource that’s in Abuja of which Delta State is a big contributor, there was a necessity to hook up with it.

“I used to be governor for eight years. I used to be in opposition. I did my finest however we misplaced quite a bit. And I didn’t imagine that the governor wanted to remain working very exhausting, and we all know that we’re very supportive of Governor Sheriff as a result of he’s doing quite a bit.

“However because the governor is doing quite a bit for us, he additionally wants to hook up with the higher supply of energy and useful resource and goodwill in Abuja.”