Former Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, has explained that his decision to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) was driven by a need to better connect the state to the seat of power in Abuja. Okowa, along with his successor, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, and members of the Delta State cabinet, last week officially dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling APC — a move that sent shockwaves through the PDP’s national leadership, as Delta, one of Nigeria’s oil-rich states, had been under PDP control since 1999.…
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