The PDP has suffered a major blow in its 2027 election plans as Delta PDP leaders defect to APC
In a move that might have altered existing permutations, dismantled political structures, refocused the battle for 2027 and dealt a death blow on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Delta State governor and 2023 presidential candidate of the party, Ifeanyi Okowa; the incumbent Governor of Delta State, Sheriff Oborevwori, along with the entire local governments’ chairmen in the state and party apparatchik, on Wednesday, quit the PDP en bloc with all of their structures and joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Expectedly, this move is to further consolidate the chances of President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential run, when he would be seeking a re-election.
Apart from the Delta PDP forces, more states in the South-south are still being expected to join the APC as the intending defectors were said to have been handed a deadline of on or before May 29 to join the ruling party.
While Akwa Ibom and Rivers State have been touted as two of the likely states to follow suit, the Akwa Ibom State Government, has denied speculations that Governor Umo Eno, was also planning to defect to the APC.
Interestingly, the unfurling developments are pointing to a possible south versus north scenario in the 2027 elections, just as the current calculus are also suggesting that the PDP might be forced to consider a northern candidate with the core of its southern base now being eroded.
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Nevertheless, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC and the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, have welcomed the decision by Oborevwori and Okowa to join the party, saying the state being an APC state would contribute maximally to the Renewed Hope Agenda.
However, shocked at the development, a former Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Chief Olabode George, has asked former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to leave the party because of their alleged anti-party activities.
In a related development, a sixth-term House of Representatives Member, Oluwole Oke Representing Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency in Osun State, has also resigned from the PDP, after reportedly consulting with his political associates, friends, and family members.
