It was a harvest of political defectors from the opposition parties to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State yesterday as the governorship candidate of the party for the September 21 governorship election, Asue Ighodalo, and his running mate, Osarodion Ogie, took their campaign train to Ovia South-West.
A gale of defection hit the APC and Labour Party (LP) as hundreds of their supporters dumped the parties and pledged allegiance to the PDP as the ward-to-ward campaign train hit the local government area.
The campaign at wards 5 and 6 comprising Udo and Ora which was held at the Ezoti Primary School, Udo, witnessed the mass defection led by the duo of Roland Ohenhen and Ovie Ighofose, with Ohenhen leading the defectors from the LP, and Ighofose leading those from the APC.
The defectors hinged their action on the need to vote for an individual who had the competence, capacity and character and compassion to move the state forward and not a puppet who would be led by the nose and told what to do before doing it.
The massive crowd of PDP supporters at the Ezoti Primary School, which received the PDP gubernatorial candidate, Ighodalo, on behalf of the state PDP l, symbolically handed umbrellas to the leaders of the defectors, assuring them all of equal treatment and equal opportunities in the PDP.