The Director Media and Publicity to the House of Representative Campaign team for the Ogbia Federal Constituency candidate, Ibu Williams Mizodome, led some APC members to the PDP.
Also, the Assistant Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Yenagoa Local Government Area, Amakiri Obaze and his supporters have dumped the party for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.
It was gathered that while Obaze, who was the Assistant Legal Adviser of the APC in Yenagoa Local Government Council announced his defection through a resignation letter to the ward chairman of the party, Mizodome, who also doubled as the Secretary Obhan Emeyal Traditional Council announced his defection at the Ward Headquarters of the PDP in Emeyal ll and was received by the ward chairman, Elder Anyama Igobasi and the local government chairman, Anyam Moses.
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In his defection speech at Emeyal community in Ogbia Local Government, Mizodome, who had also been the Accord Party flag bearer in the 2019 House of Assembly election, said his defection to PDP was due to the dividend of democracy attracted to Ogbia by the present administration of Governor Douye Diri.
He also told PDP faithful at the venue that that “the present administration of Governor Douye Diri and the PDP reconnected the Ogbia people to the state by completing the collapse bridge at Elebele community and also allowed the area have a seat at the Federal House of Representatives. We are grateful and ready to contribute our quota in the administration service to humanity.”
In his brief, Gabriel Michael Ogbara, the PDP House of Assembly Ogbia Constituency 3 candidate, promised to engage Ibu in his campaign team just like every other party member. Noting that PDP is his original home and he is glad of Ibu returning home to support the Governor Douye Diri led-prosperity administration.