In Edo PDP candidate’s campaign director defects to APC

Saidu was among hundreds of PDP members who defected to the APC during the commencement of the ruling party’s governorship campaign in Auchi.

 
Pator Osagie Ize Iyamu
(Nigerian Eye) 

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Edo State, Osagie Ize-Iyamu has lost his Campaign Director, Mallam Balarabe Saidu to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

According to reports, Saidu was among hundreds of PDP members who defected to the APC during the commencement of the ruling party’s governorship campaign in Auchi.

“My brothers and sisters from Edo North, I hereby stand before you people with over two thousand persons from the dying PDP to join our Comrade Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, so that more development can come our way. Today, Edo North is like small London,” he said.

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The governorship elections will hold on September 10.