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Scores of members of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the Edo North senatorial district of Edo State, including many political heavyweights, have dumped the party for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
They were received into the party on Friday by the state deputy governor, Philip Shaibu on behalf of his principal, Governor Godwin Obaseki.
Prominent among the defectors were the serving senator representing the north senatorial district, Francis Alimikhena, Lucky James, one-time Etsako West local government council chairman, and a former commissioner in the immediate past Adams Oshiomhole administration, as well as many other leaders.
The defectors said they left the APC as a result of the injustice against Alimikhena, who was seeking a third term in the Senate, but was upstaged by Oshiomhole.
Receiving the new members, many of them returnees to the party, Shaibu said he was elated to reunite with the people with whom he had shared political journey in the past.
