A  former acting Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NNDC, Pastor Power Ziakede Aginighan, has renounced  his membership  of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.  In an elaborate ceremony in Bomadi, headquarters of Bomadi Local Government Area, of Delta State, at the weekend, Aginighan said he was decamping to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

“For the past 16 years, many Ijaw, including myself, lived under the illusion that our destiny was tied to the PDP. This has been reflected in the massive support received by the PDP throughout the Delta Ijaw territory from 1999 to date”.

The former NDDC boss explained that Ijaw territory is among the foremost crude oil and gas producing ethnic groups in Delta State, saying it is an irony that over 85% of the Delta Ijaw territory is inaccessible by road. “There is water every where with hardly any for the people to drink; we are virtually in darkness as we are not linked to the national grid, daily newspaper is a luxury let alone GSM access. Over 90% of our territory has no access to an ATM let alone a bank. Our people travel for several kilometres through water and land to get to the nearest ATM or bank in Warri or Ughelli”.

Aginighan, with well over 2,000 card carrying members of the PDP cutting across the three senatorial districts of Delta, pledged  his loyalty to the leadership of the APC.