BREAKING! Alaibe, Fmr NDDC MD Dumps APC

Chief Timi Alaibe, the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), has dumped the All Progressive Congress (APC).

Alaibe, anounced his defection on Friday and was received immediately jnto the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP by Bayelsa state governor, Seriake Dickson.

The former NDDC boss who contested the primaries of the APC in the last gubernatorial election, rejoined the PDP alongside former Secretary to Bayelsa State Government, Hon Gideon Ekeowei.

Others who moved to the party with him are, one time Commissioner for Youths and Sports, Chief Keme Prefa, ex-Chairman of Sagbama Local Government Council, Hon Barnabas Edure, former Executive Secretary, SUBEB, Barr. Rhodesia Whyte and former state lawmakers including Hon Nelson Belief.

Receiving Alaibe in Government House Yenagoa, Governor Dickson noted that the return of the former NDDC MD and his teeming followers did not only give credence to the supremacy of PDP but also signified the end of the APC in the state.

He further said the defection had justified his earlier claim that the APC lacked capacity to win any election in the state as its leadership had brazenly demonstrated lack of interest in the welfare and development of the state.

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According to the Governor, Bayelsa remains the only PDP state that has re-elected its governor defeating federal might since 2015 when it became an opposition party in the country.

While reiterating the need for people of the state and Ijaw nation to embrace the PDP, Governor Dickson stressed that no well meaning and decent person would identify with the other party because of the high level of criminality and falsehood associated with it.

He said that a rally would soon be organized to formally receive them into the PDP.

“We are here to formally receive and welcome you back home to your party and I have told the chairman and the political desk working with your team that we will organise a formal reception to receive you because you are a big fish. You cannot come into the PDP and people will not know you have come. So what is happening today is a prelude to your formal reception.

In his remarks, the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Chief Timi Alaibe, described PDP as the party of the Ijaw people.

Alaibe said that all the political positions he held were facilitated by the PDP which informed his decision to leave the “wilderness” to return to the PDP to support Governor Dickson in the interest of the state.

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He saluted the efforts of Governor Dickson for his administration’s dogged commitment not only to the cause of the Ijaw nation but also to the development of the state and maintaining a disciplined PDP.

“PDP for me as an individual is home. My political life was defined by
the PDP. My political public service, work and all the political positions that I have held were facilitated by the PDP and for a lot
of us here, it was the PDP. So for us, PDP is home. It is a good-come-back home.”, he said.