Oborevwori, Okowa’s defection to APC best political tsunami – Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu has described as the best political tsunami ever witnessed in Nigeria the defection of the Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, and his predecessor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, from the Peoples Democratic Get together, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The President, represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, throughout the official reception of the governor, Okowa, and the complete PDP construction within the state as we speak in Asaba, said that by no means earlier than has any governor within the nation defected to a different get together with the complete construction of his former get together — from ward to state and nationwide ranges, together with elected and appointed officers — following go well with.

The President instantly urged the duo and their teeming followers to not see themselves as tenants within the APC however as co-owners of the get together within the project-Nigeria.

He was supported by the Nationwide Chairman of the APC, Suleiman Ganduje; the Senior Particular Adviser to the President; the Governor of Kwara State and chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Discussion board; and the chairman of the APC Governors’ Discussion board, Hope Uzodimma.

“It occurred to be the primary of its form {that a} full home can be collapsed into one other get together,” he stated.

He hailed the governor for what he described as “a daring step” and recommended Okowa, who was the 2023 Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP, for his cordial relationship together with his successor.

Shettima stated: “From what you may have been doing because you assumed workplace, which now we have seen, you may have been a progressive Governor. This your official defection has made you the chief of the get together within the state. You aren’t tenants within the get together however co-owners and collectively we will be a Nigeria of our dream.”

Ganduje described the defection to the APC as not solely historic however patriotic, positioning the state for optimum efficiency.

Governor Oborevwori, in his speech, stated the oil-rich state may not afford to stay in opposition and described his defection to the APC as a “patriotic motion in the most effective curiosity of the state.”

He vowed to do every little thing inside his energy to resolve the grievances inside the new APC household.

Former Governor Okowa additionally said that he had not made any mistake in defecting to the APC, noting that the state had, for over ten years, performed second fiddle on the nationwide degree, regardless of being the eagle laying the golden eggs for the nation’s economic system.

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Improvement, Festus Keyamo, the previous Deputy Senate President, Chief Ovie Omo-Agege, and different dignitaries had been current on the event.