PDP Sinks Deeper As Five Govs Set To Defect, Report Says

Tuesday July 01, 2025

By Edem EDEM, Abuja

There is palpable anxiety in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over plans by five of its governors to defect in the coming days.

According to Daily Sun reports, the governors include two second term governors and others, who are in their first time.

In the aftermath of the 2023 general elections, the PDP controlled 13 states, including Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Osun and Oyo states.

Other states where the opposition party produced governors are Bauchi, Adamawa, Taraba, Zamfara and Plateau. However, the PDP lost Edo State in the last off-season governorship election to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Recently, Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevberi and his Akwa Ibom counterpart, Umo Eno defected to the APC, alongside members of their Houses of Assembly, and other party bigwigs, leaving the opposition party with only 10 states.

Reports have it that the ruling party is intensifying efforts to get five of the remaining PDP governors to dump the opposition party ahead of the 2027 general elections.

A member of the PDP National Working Committee, NWC, confirmed to Daily Sun that the APC is working assiduously to win over some of PDP governors, especially those from the South. This is said to be a part of President Bola Tinubu’s strategy for the next general elections.

The NWC member, who pleaded anonymity, because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said APC is interested in controlling all the Southern states to bolster President Tinubu second chances.