
Chairman APC Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee and Yobe state Governor, Mai Mala Buni, has received Cross River state Governor Dr. Ben Ayade who joined the APC from the Peoples Democratic party.
Mamman Mohammed ,Director General Press and Media Affairs to Yobe Governor revealed in a statement made available to Daily Independent in Damaturu today.
But Chief Sunny Onuesoke, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State , said Governor Ben Ayade has since stopped being a PDP member over three years ago, saying that he is not surprised at his eventual defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The former governorship aspirant in Delta State disclosed this in Asaba while reacting to the news of Governor Ayade’s jumping ship to the APC.
” Governor Ayade decamping to the APC is not a surprise to me. Those who are close to me would testify that I saw this coming almost three years ago. To be honest Governor Ayade has stopped being a PDP governor over three years coming. My only worry is the fact that it took him this long to finally make it public”.
” The fact that he stayed this long before finally opening up to where his loyalty lies goes to show that he has been a mole, a sheep in wolves clothing and a traitor to the people of Cross Rivers state, the PDP family in the state, the people of South-South Nigeria and the entire PDP family nationwide”
” I didn’t expect him to stay this long. I had hoped that after the 2019 election, he would be decamping even before the swearing in, because his body language towards the affairs of PDP in Cross River State and South-South PDP and the recent Southern Governors meeting has been a case of PDP by day and APC by night” .
“With the abysmal performance of the ruling APC, it beats my imagination to see why any patriotic Governor in his right sense would want to join such a party, it only goes to show that Gov. Ayade is decamping to pursue his selfish and ingoble political interest at the detriment of the people of Cross River state”