Diekivie Ikiogha,
reputed to be a close friend of former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has dumped
the Peoples Democratic Party for the All Progressives Congress.
Ikiogha, switched
allegiance to the APC at a ceremony held on Saturday, June 20, at the Kpansia
open field, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa.
The politician
was a former Bayelsa State Chief of Staff, and a trusted ally of Governor Seriake
Dickson as well as Jonathan.
While addressing
the crowd that came to witness his official defection to the APC, Ikiogha said
he decided to quit the PDP because it is a party full of betrayals and deceits.
He said, “There
is lack of internal democracy and it is a party where the highest bidders
always have their way.
Ikiogha was Chief
of Staff until Dickson removed him from office in controversial circumstances
and redeployed him to the state’s Abuja Liaison Office.
He resigned his
appointment in October 2014 to contest the House of Representatives ticket for
the Yenagoa/Kolokuma/Opokuma Federal Constituency, but he would fail to get the
ticket.
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