Bayelsa Senator Benson Konbowei dumps PDP for APC

The Senator representing Bayelsa Central Senatorial District, Sen. Benson Konbowei, has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Konbowei’s missive of defection was work by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, during plenary connected Thursday.

Konbowei, successful the letter, attributed his defection to what helium called the ‘unpleasant circumstances and the crisis-torn situation’ successful his erstwhile party.

He recalled that helium had been a subordinate of PDP since 1998, from which helium was elected into the 10th Senate.

“After owed consultation with my family, my associates, my governmental leaders successful my state, and crossed the nation, I person resolved to articulation the politician of my state, the authorities of Bayelsa, Sen. Douye Diri, to resign my rank of the party.

“In coming to this decision, I person taken a heavy look astatine the protracted enactment situation and the part that has resulted from the contention for powerfulness wrong the PDP, particularly astatine the nationalist level.

“I person mislaid anticipation successful the capableness of my enactment to play the relation of a governmental enactment that is susceptible of winning councilorship elections successful Nigeria,” helium stated successful the letter.

He said that PDP, built connected lofty promises for Nigerians, had fallen into the incorrect hands, adding that it presently lacked principled leadership.

“The PDP has go characterised by eternal powerfulness struggles, irreconcilable conflicts and, astatine the moment, is successful full disarray,” the legislator said.

According to him, nary person volition beryllium and hold for those issues successful the PDP to beryllium resolved, adjacent arsenic the 2027 elections beckon.

“Accordingly, it has near maine with nary enactment but to resign from that party. So, I hereby resign my rank of the PDP and hereby state my full loyalty, enactment and question to the APC,” helium said.

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