Adebayo Adenrele
The former close ally of Rotimi Amaechi and APC Board of Trustees, BoT member, Chief Sam Sam Jaja has led a sizeable numbers defectors from the All Progressives Congress into the Peoples Democratic party, PDP.
NEWSTODAYNG garnered that Governor Nyesom Wike received the defectors in Isaac Boro Park in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, where Wike carried out his campaign threat to demolish every APC stronghold there.
NEWSTODAYNG reports that, significant Amaechi supporters and APC
leaders in Port Harcourt, like Chief George Tolofari, Mr. Princewill Dike, Hon. Fred Igwe, Hon. George B. Nwidam, and Hon. Kennedy Ebeku, Ph.D., joined the PDP.
Sam Sam Jaja, had served as the Peoples Democratic Party’s national vice chairman.
One of the APC defectors noted that one of the reasons for leaving their party was Gov. Wike’s impressive accomplishments.
He furthered that working with the governor would improve the chances for the state and its citizens to experience more development.