By Ogochukwu Isioma
The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Rt Hon Comrade Phillip Shaibu, has officially dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Shaibu dumped the ruling PDP in the state for the APC at a campaign rally held on Saturday in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
He was received into the party by the APC’s governorship candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo and his running mate, Dennis Idahosa.
He led hundreds of prominent leaders and members of the Legacy PDP Coalition led by the party’s National Vice Chairman (South South), Chief Dan Orbih, across the state into the APC.
The reinstated Deputy Governor also used the defection rally to reunite with his political godfather, a former Edo State Governor and APC National Chairman, Senator Adams Oshiomhole.
Recall that a Federal High Court in Abuja had nullified Shaibu’s impeachment on charges of gross misconduct by the Edo State House of Assembly.
