ANPP Chief John Odigie-Oyegun decamps and joins ACN

The first civilian governor of Edo State and national leader of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has decamped and joined Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, citing the need to ensure the re-election of Governor Adams Oshiomhole as reason for his action.

He made the announcement when the ACN National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, paid him a courtesy call in his home in Benin City, Oyegun in welcoming him said “friends who share similar progressive views have been kept apart for so long.”

He said:  “Finally, I think I’m home. As soon as they decide on the event (day of his open declaration), they will know that I, Oyegun, have a national appeal. When the date of the proper event is fixed, you will all come.”

Expressing delight to receive friends he had known for long, Oyegun asserted that “the ACN has become the catalyst of development in Nigeria.
“With the young, dynamic and forthright people in ACN, some of whom have now become governors, I’m beginning to see a core of young dynamic people who are going to shape the new reality in the country.”“Now, my mind is at rest with Edo State.”My concern is how we can transform what we are doing here to national politics. Oshiomhole is a man imbued with lots of vision. To keep pace with him is a problem.
“I’ve asked him many times where he’s getting the money from and will still ask him the same question here. Thank God for your life, only God knows what would have happened if the perpetrators of that incident (convoy crash where three journalists were killed) had hit their target.”
Reacting to the allegation by the opposition People’s Democratic Party over a purported N10 billion mansion being built by the governor, Oyegun said “when you finish in Edo State, all Edo people will build a mansion for you.”
Responding, Chief Akande, who was accompanied on the visit by Oshiomhole, former governors of Lagos, Ogun and Ekiti States, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Segun Osoba and Chief Adeniyi Adebayo and National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Layi Mohammed, said “birds of the same feather flock together. I can see that John has the same feather with all of us here.”
Commenting also, Oshiomhole said: “Our elder statesman (Oyegun) has always been with us, even though he has been a member of the ANPP.
“He has always identified with us. His glowing comments on what we’re doing in Edo angered some people within his former party who were working for the PDP.”
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