Kinsmen of former President Goodluck Jonathan, including Senator Clever Ikisikpo have said they left the Peoples Democratic Party because of the party’s method of operation.
Ikisikpo, a former representative of Bayelsa-East senatorial district in the Senate, spoke at a news conference on Tuesday at Kolo Creek in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
The senator said he and past federal and state lawmakers as well as former political office holders from Ogbia dumped the PDP because “it was being run like a one-man business.”
He said they joined the All Progressives Congress because of the transparency, internal democracy, equity and fairness in the party.
It was learnt that many residents in the area besieged the home of the former senator to indicate their interest to join him in the APC.
Ikisipo said, “What is happening is historic in the sense that we have now joined a new party and that is the reigning party.
“We will make sure that the APC becomes the ruling party in Bayelsa State and by the grace of God, come December 2015, the APC will take over this state. Of course, we are all ready to work as a team to make sure that we achieve our goal”.
The senator, who said he joined the PDP in 1998, explained that he left the party when it derailed from its founding principles.
He said the PDP was hijacked by “one man,” lamenting that the level of impunity in the party in the state was unbearable.
He said, “We formed the PDP in Bayelsa State. We made the PDP in Bayelsa but those who do not know how it came about came from behind and hijacked the party. I wont belong to a party where there is a high level of impunity, so I went to a system where there is transparency.
“I went to a place where the voice of every person is recognised, not a situation where only one person will dictate the pace for everybody. You cannot decide my destiny because it is God that gave me that destiny.”
Credit: PUNCH
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