Baring last minutes change of plans. the immediate past Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan will today, defect from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with his supporters.
Sources told WazobiaReporters that the former governor will return to PDP at his Ward 6, Abigborodo in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State.
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Uduaghan was governor of Delta on the PDP platform for eight years (2007-2015).
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He was also a commissioner for Health and later Secretary to the State Government under the administration of former Governor James Ibori.
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The former governor left the PDP in 2018 for APC where he contested the Delta South Senatorial election but lost to incumbent Senator James Manager.
Uduaghan was recently sighted at a function with Governor Okowa and Ibori during the Annual General meeting of Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) held at the Delta State University Teaching Hospital, Oghara.
It was the first time Uduaghan would be seen with his successor (Okowa) in a public function since the 2019 general elections.
Though, Uduaghan had neither confirmed nor denied his return to PDP, some of his loyalists including Hon. Godwin Abigor, a former Delta Assembly lawmaker, last week defected to PDP.
Multiple sources within the PDP and APC have confirmed the development.
