•To hold a mega rally in Yenagoa

From Femi Folaranmi,Yenagoa

Themembership of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has continued its impressive growth with defections from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC).

In Bayelsa West, where the national leader of the party and former governor, Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, hails from, a top member of the APC, High Chief Selekebina Saboh from Ekeremor has defected to the NDC.

Saboh, former chairman of Ekeremor Local Government Area recently resigned from the APC.

Findings indicated that Saboh is expected to be received into the NDC today, at a mega rally at the party secretariat along Isaac Boro Expressway.

Investigations at the venue revealed a beehive of activities as event planners are erecting giant billboards and backdrops with the NDC logo, photographs of Saboh, the national chairman of the party, Senator Moses Cleopas and the national leader, Dickson.

Saboh’s defection promises to change the political dynamics of Bayelsa State as sources said he is going to contest the House of Representatives seat for Sagbama/Ekeremor. 

Also, a serving member of the House of Assembly in Kolokuma/Opokuma Constituency 2, Wisdom Fafi, has announced his defection to the NDC.

Fafi, one of the three House of Assembly members, who refused to defect to the APC with Bayelsa State governor, assured that the NDC would bring meaningful development and improved governance to the constituency.

According to him, his decision to defect to the NDC was predicated on his admiration for the national leader, Senator Dickson, whom he described as a leader committed to the welfare of the people.

Fafi, who noted that the ideology of the NDC is rooted in Dickson’s vision of prioritising service to humanity, expressed optimism that the people of Kolokuma/Opokuma would reap the dividends of democracy from the NDC.

Sources stated that the defections to the NDC from the APC-led government in the state are expected in the coming days.