Less than two months after his party lost power, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) member representing Esan South East Constituency at the Edo State House of Assembly, Hon. Ojezele Osesua, Monday has dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ojezele was received into the party’s fold by the State APC chairman, Emperor Jarrett Tenebe, at the party secretariat in Benin City.
The legislator, currently a two term member of the assembly, said he dumped the PDP over ‘irreconcilable’ issues within the PDP.
He also described his defection as a debt he owed the APC and thanked the party for receiving him.
According to him, “In 2019, I was elected to the Assembly on APC platform. Due to some challenges, I left the party and joined PDP after one year.
“Though I was elected on PDP platform in 2023, but I have been indebted to the APC. It is that debt I have come to pay with my defection.”
On his part, the APC chairman, Jarrett Tenebe commended the legislator joining the party.
Tenebe described Ojezele as focus, election-winning member, adding, “it’s not APC fault that PDP have issues.”
He added: “You will recall that during the election campaigns, I said our doors are opened and the door is still open.”
The PDP lost the state to Senator Monday Okpebholo of the APC at the September 29, 2024 governorship election.
However, the PDP candidate at the poll, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, is challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) declaration of Okpebholo as winner of the poll at the State Election Petition Tribunal.
