Delta defections: Keyamo, Showunmi, others react as Delta governor, Okowa, dump PDP for APC, see full details

• Sheriff Oborevwori, politician of Delta state, and his predecessor Ifeanyi Okowa, defected from the PDP to the APC up of the 2027 wide elections successful Nigeria
• A clip of Governor Oborevwori being serenaded with ‘On Your Mandate’, the fashionable governmental tune dedicated to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has since gone viral connected societal media
• Legit.ng reports that Festus Keyamo, curate of aviation and aerospace development, was among the notable Nigerians who rapidly reacted to the defections

Legit.ng writer Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has implicit 9 years of acquisition covering elections, politics and governance successful Nigeria.

Asaba, Delta state - Minister of aviation and aerospace development, Festus Keyamo (SAN), has thanked President Bola Tinubu for his enactment arsenic cardinal governmental stakeholders successful Delta authorities dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Keyamo appreciated Tinubu’s enactment successful a station connected X (formerly Twitter) connected Wednesday, April 23, moments aft Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta authorities and his commissioners made known their defection to the APC.

Keyamo acknowledgment Tinubu implicit Oborevwori's defection.
Source: UGC

He wrote with an accompanying video:

"Today is the time the Lord has made successful Delta state. Finally, yet Delta is APC! Thank you, Mr. President for your enactment that has attracted the champion to our Party. Thank you, my person and Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori for your foresight and courageousness successful taking this bold decision."

In the aforesaid vein, Bashir Ahmad, erstwhile peculiar adjunct connected integer communications to ex-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, expressed his delight.

The APC chieftain wrote connected his verified X page:

"Welcoming Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta authorities to our large party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), arsenic helium officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)."

Ahmad added:

"The 2027 governmental transportation model has officially opened. Delta is locked in. Now eyes are connected the adjacent large move. Will it beryllium Kano, Rivers oregon Bauchi?"

On his part, absorption fig Segun Showunmi wrote:

"On the defections!"Deng the successor to Mao was erstwhile asked aft the dismal show of the Cultural Revolution of Mao that however China would go large connected its terms!"He answered successful the affirmative ohio we volition cure our defect, and we volition usage facts to pass the decision."

For activistic and lawyer Deji Adeyanju, helium said:

"The Delta Governor that had the courageousness to defect to APC is amended than absorption governors who volition enactment successful PDP, LP and enactment for Tinubu. It’s similar idiosyncratic arguing with maine that Peter Obi is not moving for Tinubu. Who was azygous handedly liable for Tinubu’s triumph successful 2023?"

Eno's defection to APC not feasible — Commissioner

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom authorities dismissed rumours claiming that helium volition permission the PDP for the APC.

Eno emphasised that his caller unfastened endorsement of President Tinubu and different cardinal national leaders is not astir partisanship, but "a pragmatic measurement to foster practice and pull national interventions to the state.”

Aniekan Umanah, the Akwa Ibom authorities commissioner for information, described Eno’s support for President Tinubu and Senator Godswill Akpabio arsenic a well-considered determination rooted successful the champion involvement of Akwa Ibom state.

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Source: Legit.ng