BREAKING: Popular Nigerian Governor Set To Dump Party

Popular Nigerian Governor Set To Dump Party.

Onyxnews reports that Cross River State governor, Benedicts Ayade is set to dump the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Cross River State Governor, Benedicts Ayade.

The governor may announce his change of political party as early as Thursday, May 20.

Prior to the move, Onyxnews learnt that Ayade hosted a dinner in Government House, Calabar, with seven APC Governors in attendance.

According to Calabar blog, some of the APC Governors in attendance gathered are those of Kebbi, Yobe, Ebonyi, Imo and Nasarawa.

Ayade has been having running battle with the PDP in the state over the control of the party’s structures, which he does not have a hold on.

The governor has also not been participating in the recent events of the PDP governors.

Meanwhile, Onyxnews gathered that some PDP attempted to halt his alleged defection to APC.

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Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State led his Delta and Enugu states counterparts, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa and Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi during the visit to Governor Ben Ayade.

After about two hours meeting, Governor Tambuwal, who is also the Chairman of the PDP-GF told newsmen that the meeting “was a fruitful, peaceful and productive engagement with the stakeholders of Cross River.”

Governor Ayade continued: “We’re here on the mandate of the PDP-GF which was sanctioned by the National Working Committee (NWC) to come and engage with our dear brother and colleague, Prof. Ben Ayade, the Governors of Cross River state and the stakeholders of our party here in Cross River on the issues of the Congresses held here in the state that became contentious.

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“We’ve engaged with (them) and the feelers we have is that by the grace of God we’ll soon resolve these issues and the party will bounce back as one.

“There were lots of concerns about how the Congresses went about and everyone of us is interested that we restore normalcy to ensure that the family is brought back together and work together for the common interest of Cross River state,” the Cross River State governor said.