Ex-PDP gov’ship aspirants collapse structure for APC

Ahead of the September 21 governorship election in Edo State, two former governorship aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Philip Shaibu and Omoregbe Ogbeide-Ihama, have collapsed their political structures for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). 

Daily Trust Saturday reports that Shaibu and Ogbeide-Ihama made the donation to the campaign council of the APC governorship candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo. 

Ogbeide-Ihama and Shaibu, who was recently impeached as deputy governor of the state, contested for the PDP ticket but lost to Asue Ighodalo.

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Shaibu, on his part, donated over 50 Toyota Sienna buses, music trucks, and his campaign secretariat office to the APC’s Okpebholo/DENCO Campaign Organisation.

Also, Ogbeide-Ihama, a former two-time member of the House of Representatives representing Oredo Federal Constituency, donated a fully equipped campaign office building to the APC.