By SIMON EBEGBULEM, Benin

AHEAD of July 14 governorship election in Edo state, the former Chief of Staff to Prof.Osarhiemen Osunbor led administration in the state, Mr Isaiah Osifo, yesterday, defected to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) with his supporters.

He said after assessing the three governorship candidates in the race, Oshiomhole, Gen.Charles Airhiavbere (PDP) and Chief Solomon Edebiri (ANPP), he found out that Oshiomhole had in a very short period shocked the people of the state with his developmental strides “and he listens like a true democrat more than others”.

It would be recalled that Osifo who was a senatorial aspirant under the PDP in 2007 National Assembly election, dumped the PDP after he accused the leadership of the party of manipulating the primaries.

It would be recalled also that the crisis that rocked the PDP during the administration of Prof.Osunbor started when Osifo led the assault that stopped the loyalists of the former Chairman Board of Trustees of the PDP, Chief Tony Anenih from hijacking the state machinery of the party. That eventually led to the factionalization of the PDP in the state.

He later joined the Labour Party but disclosed that he had to join Oshiomhole who he said has the same vision for the people of the state like his former boss, Prof.Osunbor.