People who defected with Oborevwori to APC are returning to PDP – Ex-aide, Ojei

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Mr Victor Ojei, the former Senior Special Assistant to Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, on Civil Society and NGOs, speaks on the defection of the governor along with the state leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party

Recently, your principal, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, and his predecessor, Ifeanyi Okowa, dumped the PDP and joined the All Progressives Congress. Why did you refuse to resign your appointment instead of defecting to the APC?

I did that because I considered it an act of betrayal to the people of Delta State, because we are running with the Meaningful Development, Opportunity for All, Realistic Reform and Enhanced Peace and Security agenda for the people of the state. As I speak to you, we will not be able to meet up with this social contract that we went into with the people prior to the election in 2023. The people gave the mandate to the governor on the basis of this agreement. But the governor dumped the people’s party overnight. Even if you want to migrate politically, you have the duty to reach out to the people of Delta State who gave you the mandate to govern the state. You are supposed to consult with them and state the reasons for your migration. But you didn’t consult with the people. Two people just slept, woke up, and decided that Delta State should become an APC state without consultation.

How do you know that they did not consult?

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I know he didn’t. I’m fully on the ground in Delta State. At least, I was an appointee of the governor until the 25th of April, 2025, when I resigned. The current government in Delta has not given adequate attention to the crisis plaguing the state. We have insecurity that increases daily. Gunmen have been kidnapping back-to-back. We just paid a ransom of N10m a few days ago to free two people who were kidnapped in my community. So, kidnapping is a daily occurrence in Delta State, yet the government is not paying attention to this. Do you know that 98 per cent of police stations in Delta State don’t have patrol vehicles? How do you expect the police to combat crime?