The reinstated Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, alongside the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legacy coalition members in his company, have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Shaibu defected during the APC Edo State’s inauguration of the National Working Committee of the Edo governorship election meeting held on Saturday.
Those in attendance are former governor of Kano State and National Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Ganduje, governors of Ondo and Cross River States, Lucky Aiyedatiwa and Bassey Ottu respectively.
Edo State APC State Chairman, Jarett Tenebe, and the state governorship candidate, senator Monday Okpebholo, and Adams Oshiomole were also at the meeting.
Shaibu, who had earlier declared his intention to defect to the APC, was received into the party by the National Organising Secretary.
