By SIMONEBEGBULEM

BENIN—A leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers, NUPENG in Edo State, Mr. Johnbull Asemota and the current Chairman of the union, Mr. Osahon Osamuyi, have joined the All Progressives Congress, APC, at a rally in Benin City, weekend.

Also, 20 members of PDP executive in Uhumwonde Local Government Area of the state and members of NUPENG, numbering over 3,000, have joined the APC.

Asemota said he decided to join the APC to lend support to the state governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, in his quest to quickly develop the state.

Governor Oshiomhole, who addressed the defecting PDP leaders and their supporters said: “I am happy that many people have continued to see the developmental projects of this administration especially in Uhumwonde, and are deciding to join APC.

“This man you see with me is a comrade like me and those people who separated us before now have gone and he is with us today. In fact, PDP is finished in Uhumwonde council.

“For too long, a few people have held Edo State in bondage, they took everything that came their way and reduced the state to a laughing stock. When I arrived here in 2007, PDP said I was joking; that they will rig the election because everybody then believed that rigging was a way of life, but we have demobilised them.”