•Says Oshiomhole is a true progressive

By Simon Ebegbulem

A FORMER Majority Leader of the Edo State House of Assembly, Mr Frank Okiye, says many members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state are dumping the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC) because the PDP leadership in Edo is confused.

Okiye spoke when he led 20 other PDP leaders and thousands of their supporters to APC in Edo Central senatorial district.

Okiye said, “We have walked into the centre from various directions and I have found out that, in life, the only thing that is permanent is change and I have found that the wind of change has taken off. This wind of change has been epitomized and demonstrated in the aggressive approach to liberate our people. It is my pleasure to come out straight to identify with those things that have come from the administration of the Comrade Governor of Edo State, that, today, we are now freer than we were.

“There is no gainsaying that change has taken place in Edo whether anybody likes it or not.

“The old order has become moribund and monotonous that ideas are no longer generated but here we have a governor that has fire in his bones. He came and believed that there is need for change and there are evidences to demonstrate that this man has a focus and he is aggressively pursuing it.

It got to a point where people realize that this man has a goal and they are with him fully, and that is the train of change.

“ I want to be part of this change before it get to its destination. I and my leaders that are here have resolved to make our little contribution to this process of change.’’