A close ally of Rivers state governor, Nyesome Wike, Dr Prince Sudor Nwiyor, has defected to the All Progressives Congress from the Peoples Democratic Party.
Nwiyor, who is also the current chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) in Kenule Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic, Bori, was received into the APC by the party’s governorship candidate in the state, Pastor Tonye Cole.
Also, on ground to receive the former PDP chieftain was a prominent APC member in the state, Dr Chukwudi Dimkpa, as well as the party’s candidate for Khana Constituency 1 in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Barrister Neeka Igbara.
Speaking during the ceremony, Nwiyor, who was deputy director, of Mobilisation in the Wike 2019 Campaign Council, said he resigned his membership of the PDP on August 12, 2022.
He stated that his decision to exit the PDP is a result of the poor reward system in the party and the lack of even distribution of development across the state under the Wike-led administration.
Nwiyor thanked Dimkpa for facilitating his movement to the APC, adding that the decision to join the party was a result of the sterling qualities of the APC gubernatorial standard bearer and his deputy, Dr Innocent Barikor.
He revealed that PDP members in the state were tired and angry, and are ready to abandon the party because of the tribalistic nature of the leadership of the party under the present administration.
The senior lecturer boasted that in the coming days, he will formally collapse the entire structure of the Wike Solidarity Movement (WSM) across the state into the APC.
