Tom Ikimi’s Defection to PDP, Final Blow to APC —Jonathan

Sunday, September 28, 2014

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday described the defection of a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tom IKmi, from All Progressives Congress to Peoples Democratic Party as spelling the end of APC.

He also vowed that the Peoples Democratic Party would win Edo and Rivers states in the 2015 and 2016 general and governorship elections in the two states. Continue after the cut...

Speaking at PDP South-South unity rally at Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, Jonathan said:

“We formally welcome Chief Tom Ikimi and others that have joined the PDP today. They have come back to their original party, a standing-stable party; a party that does not change. From the name to the motto, to the logo, everything is the same. 

“They left because of some internal things that were not too good. Now, we have corrected all those things. Every party member is seated equally; no discrimination, no imposition. No godfather, no godmother...

“They have come to work with us and having listened to Chief Ikimi, their leaving the APC means that the last oxygen has been removed. So, Edo State will fall to PDP.

“For Rivers State, we know that the only party there is PDP; others exist only on sign boards. So, allow their signboards to stay. But we know the party that is controlling Rivers State.”

Jonathan continued, “For South-South, at the beginning of this democracy, on May 29, 1999, when I took theoath of office, as a deputy governor, the whole South-South was PDP; from Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, we were all PDP.

“But today, two states have ‘K’ legs. But from 2015 to 2016, we will get all our states back.”