Alaibe Dumps APC for PDP
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By Emmanuel Addeh in Yenagoa

A former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Chief Timi Alaibe, yesterday dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) and returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with a horde of his supporters and former lawmakers.

While officially welcoming the former governorship aspirant, at the Government House Yenagoa, Governor Seriake Dickson said with the defection of Alaibe, the end of the APC in the state had finally come.


“PDP has the majority of the good and decent patriotic people. I used to say there are few APC members in Bayelsa that are good and patriotic. Now, you can imagine the few good ones have now left.

“When we come to campaign, we will wait for them to tell us the roads and bridges from Abuja that they have brought to this state, to show us the major appointments.

“And the benefits and patronage that they deceived these good and decent people to go to their party that doesn’t mean well for our people. The APC clearly is being folded up in Bayelsa with all of you leaving,” Dickson said.


He assured Alaibe and others of their full integration to the PDP, stressing that a rally would soon be organised to formally receive them into the PDP.

He added: “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.

“We were pained when you left at a time we needed you most, but all of that is history. What is important is what is ahead of us and I want to assure you that you are all valued leaders in the party once again.”


Alaibe, in his remarks, described PDP as the party of the Ijaw people, saying that all the political positions he held were facilitated by the PDP which informed his decision to leave the “wilderness” to return to the party to support Dickson in the interest of the state.

“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.

“We want to assure you that at some point in the course of our political life, just like a child will not know the richness of his mother’s soup until he tastes his neighbour’s soup, we have gone out there and we have tasted our neighbour’s soup.

Pillar to post...timi alaibe know wetin him dey do,but him never know wetin dey do am politically.