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We Didn’t Defect To APC With Gboyega Isiaka – Ogun ADC

January 16, 2020 11:40 am

Reactions have been trailing the defection of the Governorship Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Gboyega Nasir Isiaka, into the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

DAILY POST recalls that Isiaka, fondly addressed as GNI, was on Tuesday received into the APC fold by Gov Dapo Abiodun of Ogun.

But some ADC leaders said they have not defected with the three-time governorship candidate into the Dapo Abiodun faction of the APC.

DAILY POST observed that Isiaka’s defection has split the ADC across the state, even in Isiaka’s Imeko-Afon Local Government, as some leaders and members of

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Wike: Dickson Plans To Defect To APC To Avoid EFCC Arrest

December 25, 2019 10:16 am

Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike has accused his Bayelsa counterpart Seriake Dickson of planning to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) to avoid arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for corruption at the end of his tenure.

“Dickson concluded plans to join the APC…(and) colluded with these people so that EFCC will not arrest him when he leaves Government,” Wike said in a statement by his media aide Simeon Nwakaudu.

Both governors of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) but have been at loggerheads since the party lost the Bayelsa State governorship election to the APC in November.

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Bello Receives Boost As PDP Chieftains Defect To APC

November 8, 2019 3:21 am

The candidature of Governor Yahaya Bello and his deputy, Chief Edward Onoja, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) received a boost on Wednesday at Insalu, the headquarters of Yagba East Local Government Area, as the former acting governor, Chief Clarence Olafemi and hundreds of PDP members in the federal constituency renounced their membership and defected to the APC.

At the APC’s rally held in Insalu for the Yagba Federal Constituency, the former acting governor and Director General, Abubakar Ibro Gubernatorial Campaign Council, 2019, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olafemi, former Commissioner for Water Resources, Osanusi, former House of …

I didn’t pay ₦200m for AAC’s Yeeh to defect, says Wike

March 25, 2019 2:41 pm

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike on Monday denied insinuations he induced the deputy governorship candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) Chief Akpo Bomba Yeeh to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with N200million.

Governorship candidate of the AAC Biokpomabo Awara had alleged Wike paid N200m to Yeeh, who resigned and joined the PDP on Monday.

Wike, who spoke through the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Emma Okah, described the N200 million allegation as untrue.

Okah said: “The allegation that Govermor Wike gave AAC’s deputy governorship candidate (Yeeh) N200 million is not correct, it is untrue and it is …