By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa
Former Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Peremobowei Ebebi has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Labour Party alleging insincerity on the part of the leadership of the PDP.

Ebebi was sometime last year impeached by the state house of assembly over alleged gross misconduct but is challenging his removal in court.

He was barred from the Peoples Democratic Party primaries held Sunday at the Samson Siasia Stadium, Yenagoa by the election panel following the omission of his name from the list of cleared aspirant for the primaries.

The former deputy governor said he was leaving the PDP under which platform he was twice elected into the state house of assembly and became Speaker twice and two time deputy governor for the Labour Party on account of the alleged injustice meted to him by his former party.

The former deputy governor said he was duly cleared by the Tunde Ogbeha appeal panel instituted by the leadership of the party which necessitated his presence at the party primaries only to be told that his name was not on the list of aspirants certified for the PDP state congress.

Ebebi in an interview in Yenagoa shortly after he was barred from the PDP congress won in which the incumbent governor, Chief Timipre Sylva picked the party ticket to contest the April polls said the omission of his name was a deliberate attempt to get him out of the race.

The erstwhile deputy governor who expressed regret at the turn of event in the PDP said, “this kind of injustice that is happening in the PDP is unfortunate. Since the process has been fraud, we have no faith in what they have done so far.”

While faulting the entire processes, he accused the party of changing the list of delegates over time to the detriment of other aspirants.
Ebebi said he would not challenge what happened at the primaries as he was leaving for the Labour Party.

Ebebi declared that, he would stand up and fight the injustice stressing that the PDP has degenerated to a visionless and fraudulent party lacking internal democracy.

Though he declined to comment whether he would still pursue his governorship ambition on the platform of the Labour Party he vowed to fight the injustice even at the risk of live to liberate the people from the stranglehold of the PDP.
“We will stand up to make sure we fight this injustice including lack of development and visionless leadership in our state under the platform of Labour Party,” he said.

It would be recalled that most aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party have defected to the Labour Party where they hope to pursue that political ambition having been schemed out by their former party.