If the names in a document that All Progressives Congress (APC) has released to newsmen is anything to go by, the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State will on Saturday experience a political tsunami as over 700 political leaders will formally decamp to the APC.
But Governor Seriake Dickson has drawn the first blood as he said that he would formally declare his intention to contest the December 5th election on the platform of the PDP.
Prominent among the defecting leaders are the former Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission and ex-Special Adviser to the President, Chief Ndutimi Alaibe; Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, former Deputy Governor Perempbowei Ebebi. Admiral Festus Porbeni. former Acting Governors Nestor Binabo and Werinipre Seibarugu, are also leading the pack of defectors to the APC.
They are expected to be received by the state leader of the APC, Chief Timipre Sylva and a federal government delegation led by the Vice President, Prof. yemi Osinbajo.
Others include Senator John Brambaifa, Senator Clever Ikisipo, Ambassador Emmanuel Otiotio, Chief Nathan Egba, former House of Representatives member, Dr. Stella Dorgu and former NDDC chairman, Prof. Tarila Tebepah.
