Bayelsa: Jonathan’s Kinsmen, Pioneer Chairman Dumps PDP For APC

As the governorship election for the oil-rich Bayelsa State draws closer, two big-wigs in the  People Democratic Party, Chief Robert Enogha and Chief Claudius Enegesi, have left the party for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Naija News understands that the two men were grassroots politicians and kinsmen of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Enogha, prior to his defection, was the chairman, Bayelsa Environmental Sanitation Authority and former two-time member of the House of Assembly while Enegesi was a Speaker in the old Rivers State when Ada George was the governor and the party stalwart was also  the pioneer chairman of the PDP in Bayelsa State when the party was formed in 1998.

But Enogha, while joining the APC, cited dictatorial tendencies in PDP as a reason for his decision to leave the party.

Also in Brass, Chief Beimo Spiff, the coordinator of the PDP governorship campaign council in Brass Local Government and brother to Senator Inatimi Rufus Spiff, Chairman of the PDP reconciliation committee, dumped the party for the APC.

Spiff and his supporters were received by the Secretary of the party, Alabo Martins.