PARTY DEFECTION: Edo Speaker Alongside Six Others Dump APC—–The All Progressive Congress has officially lost the loyalty of the Edo State Speaker, Rt. Hon. Frank Abumere Okiye and six other members of the state House of Assembly to PDP on Tuesday.
The speaker announced at a plenary session that he recieved the defection letters from the six members including himself, expressing their desires to decamp to the ruling party in the state so as to identify with the developmental strides of Governor Godwin Obaseki to move Edo State forward.
Those who officially defected include: Rt. Frank Okiye, Hon. Asoro Osadebamwen Roland. Hon. Aluebhosele Ephraim; Hon. Ojiezele Osezua Sunday; Hon. Okhuarobor Henry. Hon. Okoduwa Emma and Hon. Marcus Onobun.
Rt. Hon. Okiye and the defecting six members stayed in the APC all through the electioneering campaigns and the poll in September 19, 2020.
