BY SIMON EBEGBULEM

BENIN—A major defection has occured in Ogbona, home town of the chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Chief Dan Orbih, as the only PDP councillor in Orbih’s ward 4, Etsako Central Local Government Area, Mr Peter Akhughe and over 100 of his supporters, have dumped the PDP for All Progressives Congress, APC.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole, who received the defectors, said that the defection in Orbih’s stronghold, signaled the end of PDP in Ogbona, adding that his administration would build another borehole in the area to ensure that Orbih’s kinsmen enjoy potable water and other basic amenities, which, according to him, were denied the people of the area by the PDP.

Listing  the developmental projects of his administration in Ogbona, which include roads, and schools, Oshiomhole said, “I have come, not only to welcome Peter into our fold, but to say that this council is now 10/10 exactly the same way it is 18/18 in Edo State after my election.

“And to recognise that our strength is not in empty rhetorics, making promises that we will not keep, I have come to assure the people of Ogbona that we had done one borehole before, we will do another one. The weapon we have against PDP is our developmental efforts and they have no answer to it. Each time they plan at night, but in the day time God will destroy their plots.

“I want to assure Edo people that APC is on a liberation movement and there is no going back. What is dead is dead. Now that PDP is pronounced dead in sin, they will not resurrect. We will emphasise development, the right of the child to good schools, woman to clean water and our people to good roads. Even after my tenure, we will have APC governments that will continue to work for our people, there is no resurrection for PDP.”