Loyalists dump Airhiavbere for ACN

BENIN—A member of the legal team of General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd), Edo State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the July 14, 2012 election, Mr Kelvin Aigbe has dumped him for Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

Another top leader of PDP and proprietor of Paragon Demonstration Group of Schools, Mr. Martins Osakwe, has also joined ACN with hundreds of his supporters.

Osakwe who spoke on behalf of the defectors, said their action was necessitated by their desire to join Governor Adams Oshiomhole in his developmental stride.

“When you take a child to school and the child keeps failing and fails 18 subjects, as a parent, won’t you think twice?  You may have to ask the child to go and learn a trade.

“For me, I come from the 5 Junction area and the old women keep saying, greet Oshiomhole for us. We are leaving a group of shadow chasers, petty people.  It is a party of deceivers.”

Osakwe insisted that the only credible leader in PDP, Gen. Godwin Abbe, said he had quit politics, asking rhetorically, “what are we still doing in PDP.  It is never too late to develop Edo State.  We are here to serve.  We have come to be loyal members of ACN