Exodus: Sen Ohiare, 1000 Others Dump PDP For APC

Over one thousand (1,000) ruling Peoples' Democratic Party's (PDP)
devotees of central senatorial district of Kogi State, with Senator
Muhammed Salami Ohiare in the forefront, have over the weekend
defected to the yet-to-be-registered All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ohiare had, at a press conference, explained their decision to seek
alternative platform: "We have waited too long for better life to be
ushered into this country in general and Kogi State in particular, but
like an 'abracadabra', the more we expect it, the further it is made
to elude us."
Stressing the fact that Kogi State situation is 'most pathetic' in
terms of putting concrete infrastructures on ground, he further said,
"It is most disheartening that a party, All Nigeria Peoples Party
(ANPP), that ruled this state for four years can still point to
greater achievements than the one that has been in power for almost
triple same period."
Ohiare, a former governorship candidate of the Action Congress of
Nigeria (ACN) in 2007, expressed his regret that other states created
in the same period as Kogi are enjoying 'better infrastructural
provisions'. He added that the lives of the Kogi peoplehave been
'wasted in endless expectations'.
Speaking on the reasons to leave the PDP and call on his comrades to
do the same, he described the situation metaphorically: "If you are
travelling ina vehicle that either breaks down often or too slow to
take you to your destination for an important and urgent purpose, the
wise thing to do isto disembark from it and take a healthier and
faster vehicle."
According to Ohiare, the expected accelerated development can only be
attained when good governance evolves from the actions of politicians
who have the conscience of bringing the greatest happiness to greater
number of the electorate.