Ikimi’s defection, final blow to APC – Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday described the defection of a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tom IKmi, from All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party as spelling the end of the APC.

He also vowed that the Peoples Democratic Party would win Edo and Rivers states in the 2015 and 2016 general and governorship elections in the two states.

President Jonathan spoke during the PDP South-South unity rally held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, the Edo State capital.

While welcoming Tom Ikimi and other former members of the APC, including national and state assembly members, back to the party, he stated that the defection from the APC to the PDP, led by Ikimi, meant that “the last oxygen has been removed.”

The president said, “We formally welcome Chief Tom Ikimi and others that have joined the PDP today. They have come back to their original party, a standing-stable party; a party that does not change. From the name to the motto, to the logo, everything is the same.

“They left because of some internal things that were not too good. Now, we have corrected all those things. Every party member is seated equally; no discrimination, no imposition. No godfather, no godmother.

“They have come to work with us and having listened to Chief Ikimi, their leaving the APC means that the last oxygen has been removed. So, Edo State will fall to PDP.