Another Bayelsa Senator Dumps PDP, Joins APC Ahead of 2027 Elections
Bayelsa Politics: Second PDP Senator Defects to APC in Major Political Shift
The Senator representing Bayelsa-East, Benson Agadagba, defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday.
It came just days after Senator Konbowei Benson (Bayelsa-Central), also defected to the APC from the main opposition party.
The new development added to the APC’s comfortable majority as it now controls 76 out of 109 senators.
The PDP in Bayelsa is now left with former governor Henry Seriake Dickson as its only senator.
It was Dickson who handed over power to the current governor of the state, Senator Diri Douye.
Douye himself has since resigned his membership of the PDP, but has yet to announce his next political party.
However, his close associates point to the APC as the likely destination, considering that two senators have already joined the ruling party.
In his defection letter read on the floor by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, the lawmaker said the PDP of today was in shreds, compared to when he joined the party many years ago.
He claimed that the situation in the party had deteriorated to a point where it could no longer be redeemed.