By Samuel Oyadongha

Yenagoa—A group, the Aboriginal PDP in Bayelsa State, weekend described as untrue, claims of looming mass defection of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members in the state if President Goodluck Jonathan failed to support the suspension of the state chairman of the party, Col Sam Inokoba (retd).

Some PDP stakeholders had last week issued the threat of mass defection to an opposition party, if the President does not endorse the suspension of Inokoba as the state chairman of the party.

The group, through its chairman, Chief Ebi Erepam, said the purported threat of mass defection by some members of PDP to an opposition party was not only non-existent but a ruse, aimed at hoodwinking the party leadership in Abuja into endorsing the electoral ambition of the persons that instigated the said suspension of the state PDP chairman.

Urging the PDP national working committee to discountenance the threat, the group described the so-called major stakeholders that issued the said threat as confused.

According to the group, “in one breath they said it was the state working committee of the party that suspended the PDP chairman and in another, they said it was the State Executive Committee, SEC, that suspended him.”