By Simon Ebegbulem

BENIN—No fewer than 2000 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members in Edo State have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Igueben Local Government Area of the state.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole, who received the defectors led by Eronmosele Aisabor, said the government had upgraded the College of Education, Igueben, to a campus of the University of Education, Ekiadolor.

He said: “I have come to assure you that in the next two and half years of my stewardship, there will be more good news for the people of Igueben. The future of our state would be replaced from the politics of wuru wuru to that of educating our people.
“That is why we are building schools. We need teachers who are properly trained to teach our children.

“We decided to upgrade the colleges of education to degree-awarding institutions to give people the chance of taking teaching jobs by upgrading Ekiadolor to University of Education. By that decision, the Igueben College has become a campus of the University of Education.

“Do not listen to them when they tell you to decamp to a torn umbrella that had failed to produce any meaningful development in years. Did the umbrella build schools, roads and water? So ask before you act.”

Mr. Aisabor said he decided to pitch his tent with APC because of the vast infrastructural development undertaken by the Oshiomhole government in Igueben council and other parts of the state.