Former Governor, Ibori's Men Dumps PDP for Spreading Poverty Across Delta State

Jan 3, 2023 - 08:46 Updated: Jan 3, 2023 - 09:35
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Former Governor, Ibori's Men Dumps PDP for Spreading Poverty Across Delta State

Key members of the Delta State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party comprising associates of former Governor James Ibori are dumping the party in droves.

Notable among the defectors are the former two-term chairman of Ethiope East Local Government Council, Faith Majemite; a former Ethiope East House of Assembly member, Chief Evance Ivwurie; a former Commissioner for Urban Renewal and Youth Development in Delta State, Dr. Karo Ilolo, and others.

Party sources said that many more PDP chieftains in Delta State including some top aides of the incumbent Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, particularly those dissatisfied with the outcome of the party primary, would dump the Delta PDP by the end of January.

According to sources, most aides disgruntled with the style of Governor Okowa’s government were merely waiting for their January salary before they move out as their fate was not guaranteed should the PDP win the governorship election in the State, come February, since the party had failed to engage in true reconciliation after the bitter primary.

Barely forty-eight hours after Hon. Faith Majemite, an Ibori ally and former two-term chairman of Ethiope East Local Government Council dumped the PDP recently citing heinous leadership impunity and hostile plots’ against her, another Ibori close associate, a PDP chieftain and a former Ethiope East House of Assembly member, Hon. Chief Evance Ivwurie, also left the party.

Ivwurie, while stating his reasons for dumping PDP, noted that through the current Governor Ifeanyi Okowa-led government, the future of the Delta has been mortgaged through massive and reckless borrowing.

In his letter of resignation to his Ward 2 Chairman, PDP in Abraka, Ethiope East LGA dated 27 December 2022, Hon. Ivwurie also said it had become inevitable, though difficult, to end his membership and association with the PDP forthwith “since the party is now committed to elevating and spreading poverty and suffering across Delta State”.