Less than a month after the conduct of the governorship election in Edo State, the candidate of the National Rescue Movement, NRM, Dr Dennis Osahon Aikorogie has withdrawn from the race and joined the All Progressives Congress, APC.
DAILY POST gathered that Aikorogie announced his withdrawal from the governorship race and subsequent defection to APC on Friday at a rally organized by the latter at the Textile Mill road in Benin City.
Aikorogie hinged his defection to APC on his decision to put the state on the path of progress.
“I am here today to lend my support for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Monday Okpebholo, and his Deputy, Dennis Idahosa.
“| am coming with my teeming supporters, my members and my party faithful to come and lend our support for the candidacy of Monday Okpebholo because we believe in his person because he is reliable and he is a doer.
“This time around, we need people who do things and not people who talk and take no action.
“Senator Monday Okpebholo has been relating with the people, you can see and even from his senatorial district, even before he became a senator.
“Someone like him as governor who has sympathy for the people and not people who came all the way from the blues and want to govern the state without any track record of human relationship or corporate social responsibility for the people’, he said.
The now NRM former governorship candidate disclosed that over 5000 of his followers would be defecting to the APC with him
He, however, admonished the people of the state not to be deterred by what is happening at the federal government level but should trust in the ability of Senator Okpebholo to lead the state to greater heights.
While advising registered voters and people in the state to join hands and vote in the APC despite what is happening at the federal government, he noted that he believes that the new administration of Okpebholo in Edo State will be different.
“We are going to experience economic development, youth employment, infrastructure development and a lot more. We must redeem Edo State from corporate brigandage’, he added.
He opined that if Okpebholo could perform wonderfully well as a senator, he believes that he still has the capacity to turn the fortune of the state around if voted as the governor of the state.