Tinubu Meets Delta Governor Oborevwori Following High-Profile Defection to APC
President Bola Tinubu is currently holding a closed-door meeting with Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The governor arrived at the State House around 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday, marking his first official engagement with the president since his recent defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Oborevwori’s switch to the APC on April 23 alongside former Delta Governor and PDP vice presidential candidate Ifeanyi Okowa, Deputy Governor Monday Onyeme, members of the State Executive Council, local government chairmen, and other grassroots leaders has significantly shifted the political landscape in Delta State. He becomes the first sitting Delta governor to exit the PDP since Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999.
The momentum continued with the defection of Delta State House of Assembly Speaker Hon. Emomotimi Guwor and 21 lawmakers to the APC. The meeting at the Villa is widely interpreted as part of the APC’s broader strategy to strengthen its presence in the South-South region.
Party insiders hint at further realignments, with Governors Umo Eno (Akwa Ibom), Peter Mbah (Enugu), Abba Yusuf (Kano), and Siminalayi Fubara (Rivers) reportedly being wooed by the APC. The wave of defections is intensifying internal fractures within the PDP, Labour Party, and NNPP, as opposition parties grapple with the ruling party’s growing political reach.
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