Defection: PDP threatens legal action against Oborevwori, others

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Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori and other important party members who recently switched to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have been threatened with legal action by the PDP’s National Working Committee (NWC).

The PDP National Legal Adviser was given instructions by the party’s leadership to begin the process of recovering what it described as the party’s stolen mandate in Delta State during a lengthy, six-hour, private meeting held at its national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday.

ZINGTIE remembers that the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) National Working Committee convened an emergency meeting at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.

The party instructed its national legal adviser to start a legal action to recover its mandate from the governor of Delta State and other party defectors in the state, according to a statement issued following the meeting.

Emma Ogidi, the South-South Zonal Chairman of the party, was nominated by the party leadership to oversee affairs in Delta and spearhead reorganization efforts as part of their efforts to stabilize their structure in the state.

As stated by Umar Damagum, the Acting National Chairman, “We have also instructed the national legal adviser to recover our mandate that they have taken away. The fortune of this party cannot be just left in the hands of our adversaries, so you (the national legal adviser) will take legal action to retrieve those mandates.

“We’ve just instructed the zonal caretaker committee to oversee the party in Delta after dissolving all the structures that have already been there, since the majority of them have shifted.”

Beyond the immediate issues with defections, the NWC also embraced important suggestions made by its governors’ forum.

The committee planned the PDP National Convention for August 28–30, 2025, and set May 28 as the date of the party’s next National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting.

According to ZINGTIR, on April 23, Governor Oborevwori, his deputy Monday Onyeme, and a broad coalition of political supporters, including commissioners, chairmen of local governments, and the Delta PDP’s grassroots organization, formally joined the APC.

Top APC officials Oshiomhole and Hope Uzodimma, the governor of Imo State and chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, welcomed them.

Ifeanyi Okowa, the PDP’s 2023 vice presidential candidate and a former governor of Delta State, also defected, in what many observers have called a dramatic political realignment that ended the PDP’s decades-long hold on the oil-rich state.

The APC celebrated the move as a movement that marked a significant political shift ahead of the general elections in 2027, even if it described it as more than just a defection.

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