After weeks of speculation, Senator Neda Imasuen, representing Edo South senatorial district at the National Assembly, is finally on his way out of the Labour Party, LP, to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
A grand reception is being arranged for him next Thursday. Governor Monday Okpebholo and Senator Adams Oshiomhole are expected to receive him into the party in Benin City.
Imasuen, the chairman Senate Committee on Ethics, Code of Conduct and Public Petitions won election into the Senate on the platform of the Labour Party in 2023.
Sources close to the senator hinted TELL that his decision was taken after wide consultations and negotiations with political leaders and stakeholders in the APC. He was said to have also met with President Bola Tinubu who welcomed his decision.
Senator Imasuen’s supporters who had tarried with him in the troubled Labour Party said his defection to the ruling party was “long overdue”.
According to Osifo Iguodalo, ” The Labour Party we all laboured to build is now a shadow of itself and in complete tatters both in Edo and at the national level owing to unending crises and litigations. We are excited that our hard-working Senator had finally made up his mind to dump the party.
“The rumour is true. Neda was with us today to inform us that he was moving us into APC. We understand and we are ready to go with him”.
It was gathered that as the news of the planned defection spread, some agitated LP leaders in the state besieged his Amagba residence in a last-ditch effort to prevail on him to rescind the decision but they were rebuffed.
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