Governor Diri welcomed by VP Shettima into APC

Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri was welcomed into the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) by Vice President Kashim Shettima on Monday.

Diri’s reception took place at a welcome ceremony held in Yenagoa, Bayelsa, 19 days after his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Sharing insight into his defection, the governor said, “This defection is not a Beyalsa defection, it is the Ijaw nation defecting to the APC.”

According to him, his decision to dump the PDP was necessitated by some ‘undertakers’ bent on destroying the party.

Diri stated that he did not want “to be buried along with the PDP”, adding that he won’t allow members of the Bayelsa State Assembly to be victims of the crisis rocking the party.

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