1,200 APC, LP leaders defect to PDP
*As PDP inaugurates Atiku/Okowa Campaign Council No fewer than 1,200 leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Labour Party, LP, yesterday, joined the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bayelsa State. The decampees were announced by the Special Adviser to Bayelsa State Governor on Political Matters, Chief Collins Cocodia, during the inauguration of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council in Yenagoa. Prominent among the defectors were former Director-General of the APC Governorship Campaign Council in 2019, Prof. Seiyefa Brisibe; Dr. Steven Ogola, Mr. Lucky Amadi, Chief Ebikiri Akpolo, Mr. Edwin Oweibi, Adolphus Agwuo, Steven Adaka, Abaka Tamaraebi, Kankada Ebipabowei, Chief Ebikitin Diongoli, Adagbayan Hammoh, Kingsley Mirin and thousands of their followers. Speaking on behalf of the defectors, Brisibe and Ogola said men of good conscience cannot remain in the APC as the party lacked leadership and integrity. They said their time in the APC was like being in the wildernes...