Defection: Bayelsa PDP disowns ex-senator
Former senator representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, Nimi Amange. [PHOTO CREDIT: Daily Post]The Bayelsa chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has disowned the former senator representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, Nimi Amange, following his recent defection to the All Progressives Congress .
Mr Cleopas said that Mr Amange ceased to be a member of PDP before the February National Assembly elections when he defected from PDP to African Democratic Congress . According to Mr Cleopas, the PDP in Bayelsa does not see Mr Amange as a member of the party after he defected to ADC early this year.“The fact is that Amange is not a member of our party. He defected from PDP to ADC to contest against us in the February NASS election and lost.
Mr Amange had in a letter to the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, made available to journalists, stated that he resigned his membership of his former party to join APC, ahead of the November 16 governorship poll in Bayelsa.He said: “APC governorship candidate, David Lyon, hails from Southern Ijaw Local Government Area , with the highest voting strength.“Brass LGA is Chief Timipre Sylva’s area and therefore an APC stronghold.
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